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We conducted a single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Participants were randomly assigned to receive cytisine or matching placebo for 25 days; participants in both groups received a minimal amount of counseling during the study. The primary outcome measure was sustained,...
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PMID: 21991893
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We present here two siblings with a history of recurrent oral and genital ulcers, neurological and gastrointestinal manifestations. The diagnosis of Behçet's disease in a context of familial aggregation was assumed. Facing repeated steroid-dependent flares and failure of maintenance therapies with...
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PMID: 21683309
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We report the results of the New Zealand Acute Gastrointestinal Illness (AGI) Community Study, a representative cross-sectional community telephone survey of 3655 participants conducted over a 12-month period. Respondents were asked questions about vomiting and diarrhoea in the previous 4 weeks. At...
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PMID: 20429972
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In recent years, clinical trials with stem cells have taken the emerging field in many new directions. While numerous teams continue to refine and expand the role of bone marrow and cord blood stem cells for their vanguard uses in blood and immune disorders, many others are looking t...
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PMID: 21569277
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In recent years, clinical trials with stem cells have taken the emerging field in many new directions. While numerous teams continue to refine and expand the role of bone marrow and cord blood stem cells for their vanguard uses in blood and immune disorders, many others are looking t...
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PMID: 21569277
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We compared the GIT 2.0 scores at baseline and after 2 months of use of Align (bifidobacterium infantis; 109 CFU per capsule) or Culturelle (lactobacillus GG; 109 CFU per capsule) using paired t-test and calculated effect size (ES).
Significant improvement in total GIT 2.0 score (ES...
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PMID: 21586214
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Many acute care hospitals provide round-the-clock emergency endoscopy to guarantee immediate diagnosis and treatment of acute conditions of the gastrointestinal tract. This study is the first one to assess the demand for emergency endoscopy outside usual working hours.
This study evaluated retrospec...
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PMID: 21140327
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Sarcoidosis is a multi-systemic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, histologically characterized by the presence of non caseating granulomas. The diagnostic suspicion relies on clinical, epidemiological, biological and radiological elements. It is confirmed by an evocative histology and by the...
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PMID: 21140958
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A new era in medical science has dawned with the realization of the critical role of the "forgotten organ," the enteric flora, in health and disease. Central to this beneficial interaction between the flora and humans is the manner in which the bacteria contained within the gut "talk" to the immune...
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PMID: 21068536
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To evaluate the prevalence of co-prescription of GPAs (proton pump inhibitors - PPIs and H2-receptor antagonists) and non-selective NSAIDs or COXIBs in patients registered under the local health authority (LHA) of Bergamo, a city in the north of Italy.
A drug utilization analysis was done using the...
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PMID: 20979932
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Ahmed Dahmani,
Ludmilla de Plater,
Charlotte Guyader,
Jean-Jacques Fontaine,
Aurélie Berniard,
Franck Assayag,
Philippe Beuzeboc,
Elisabetta Marangoni,
Fariba Némati,
Marie-France Poupon,
Christophe Pasik,
Stéphane Oudard and
Didier Decaudin
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Androgen-dependent and castration-resistant prostate cancer (PC) is usually sensitive to docetaxel chemotherapy. Nevertheless, docetaxel resistance frequently appears after several cycles of treatment, raising the problem of salvage treatment for docetaxel-resistant PC patients. Although the combina...
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PMID: 20827173
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To review recent publications related to NSAID-induced adverse effects on the gastrointestinal and cardiovascular systems.
This paper explores novel mechanisms of NSAID-induced gastrointestinal injury, highlights new composite endpoints evaluating adverse events of NSAIDs in the entire gastrointesti...
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PMID: 20948372
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Systemic diseases may affect the oral tissues, i.e. oral mucosa, salivary glands, teeth or bone, and oral manifestations will frequently present early, i.e. in association with (non-fulminant) systemic disease. Thus, recognition and proper diagnosis is essential to initiate appropriate treatment sch...
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PMID: 21044560
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Despite an increase in foreign tourism and in the numbers of foreign military personnel deployed to Djibouti, little is known about the risk of gastrointestinal illness in this country in eastern Africa. To assess risk and to describe common features of gastrointestinal illnesses, reports of illness...
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PMID: 20889897
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We examined all the patients referred for chest pain to the Emergency Department (ED) of "Civile-M. P. Arezzo" Hospital during a period of 6 months (from January 1st 2008 to June 30th 2008). As much as 857 patients were studied. The results of our study show that musculoskeletal chest pain is the mo...
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PMID: 20449691
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Information on the medical problems and diseases encountered by practicing Internists in the hospital environment is lacking. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of various diagnostic categories that present to internists in the hospital setting in Europe.
A pan-European study used the...
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PMID: 20816603
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The area under the curve of a single ketoconazole dose has been shown to decrease significantly when administered with acid suppressive therapy. No published studies have examined the clinical impact of concurrent ketoconazole and acid suppressive therapy in patients with castration-resistant prosta...
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PMID: 20841515
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Several prognostic systems have been developed and validated in general Intensive Care Units (ICUs). No assessment of these scores was performed in specialized Gastroenterology Intensive Care Units (GICUs).
To assess the prognostic accuracy of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE)...
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PMID: 21039069
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Collagenous gastritis, collagenous sprue, and collagenous colitis share striking histologic similarities and occur together in some patients. They also share some drug and disease associations. Pediatric cases of collagenous gastritis, however, lack most of these associations. The etiologies of the...
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PMID: 20923305
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We hypothesize that the occurrence of metabolic acidosis correlates with the cumulative rate of gastrointestinal (GI) illness and that incorporating acidosis surveillance would improve models used for the early detection of outbreaks of GI disease.
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of consec...
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PMID: 20881905
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Dispepsy is one of the most diffuse syndromes in general population. The high number of subjects affected from this pathology and the very annoying symptomatology does so as that the pharmaceutical costs of antacids and of prokinetics are very high. Aim of the study is to assess if a hydropinic ther...
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PMID: 21137574
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To evaluate the adverse effects of flunixin, ketoprofen and phenylbutazone when administered I/V to clinically normal miniature donkeys.
Twenty clinically normal adult (2.0-2.5 years old) male miniature donkeys weighing 113-136 kg and 0.81- 0.86 m tall were randomly assigned to one of four groups, a...
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PMID: 20927172
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We focus on the most common and well-described drug-related clinico-pathological conditions of the gastrointestinal tract using an organ and lesion based approach....
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PMID: 20939398
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We investigated reported Salmonella infections at a camp in New Hampshire. Camp attendees were contacted to complete a standard questionnaire. The questionnaire asked about foods eaten while at the camp, symptoms of gastrointestinal illness, visits to healthcare providers, and specimen submission fo...
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PMID: 20455756
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A total of 206 patients had oesophagogastroduodenoscopy done on them during the period under review. 124 of the patients were males (60.2%) while 82 were females (39.8%). The indications for oesophagogastroduodenoscopy were dyspepsia, 94 patients (45.6%); upper gastrointestinal tract bleed, 54 patie...
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PMID: 20857780
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Halitosis is a common human condition for which the exact pathophysiological mechanism is unclear. It has been attributed mainly to oral pathologies. Halitosis resulting from gastrointestinal disorders is considered to be extremely rare. However, halitosis has often been reported among the symptoms...
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PMID: 21152460
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The number of South American camelid (SAC; llama and alpaca) farms is growing in the southeastern United States, and infection with gastrointestinal nematodes (GIN) is a major health concern in this region. There is widespread resistance to anthelmintic remedies in small ruminants (sheep and goats),...
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PMID: 20462700
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We understand less about the environmental fate of these molecular targets and their relationship to bather risk. Modelling pathogens and indicators within a quantitative microbial risk assessment framework is suggested as a way to explore the large diversity of scenarios for faecal contamination an...
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PMID: 20638095
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We analyzed consecutive outpatients (n = 5183) who first visited the Department of General Medicine, Asahikawa Medical College Hospital, between April 2004 and March 2009.
Out of 5813 patients, 818 (14.1%) visited because of abdominal symptoms. Final diagnoses of the 818 patients wer...
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PMID: 19997854
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Eric J Topol,
Marie-Germaine Bousser,
Keith A A Fox,
Mark A Creager,
Jean-Pierre Despres,
J Donald Easton,
Christian W Hamm,
Gilles Montalescot,
P Gabriel Steg,
Thomas A Pearson,
Eric Cohen,
Christophe Gaudin,
Bernard Job,
Judith H Murphy,
Deepak L Bhatt and
CRESCENDO Investigators
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At a mean follow-up of 13.8 months (95% CI 13.6-14.0), the trial was prematurely discontinued because of concerns by health regulatory authorities in three countries about suicide in individuals receiving rimonabant. All randomised participants were analysed. At the close of the trial (Nov 6, 2008),...
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PMID: 20709233
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There has been an overall increase in length of physician visits associated with gastrointestinal disease. Both patient and provider factors predict visit length....
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PMID: 20686459
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Mean gastric emptying half-time measured by use of scintigraphy (T(1/2)-GES) for each dog ranged from 99.9 to 181.2 minutes. Mean gastric emptying time (GET) measured by use of the WMC (GET-WMC) in each dog ranged from 385.3 to 669.7 minutes. Mean coefficient of variation was 11.8% for T(1/2)-GES an...
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PMID: 20673089
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Horses with GIT disease had colic of unknown etiology (n = 8 horses), GIT inflammation or strangulation (19), or nonstrangulating GIT obstruction (23). Among the 45 horses receiving treatment, 38 were discharged from the hospital, and 7 died or were euthanized. Compared with healthy horses, horses w...
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PMID: 20673091
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We can legitimately speak of gut dysfunction, as opposed to others where symptoms are not associated with apparent or detectable gut disturbances and may truly represent somatization of an affective disorder. In this review, we describe available clinically applicable technology, albeit in specializ...
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PMID: 20582743
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In spite of risk factors for osteoporosis in patients with digestive diseases, health-care practices by providers in regard to bone health recommendations warrant further improvement....
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PMID: 20127169
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A significant number of patients with bleeding gastrointestinal angiodysplasia respond to treatment with octreotide by reducing the need for blood products. As all the included studies had small sample sizes, multicenter randomized trials are needed to confirm these findings. However, it seems reaso...
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PMID: 20393879
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Copper-indomethacin has both gastrointestinal and renal sparing properties while maintaining efficacy in experimental adenocarcinoma....
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PMID: 20035423
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These recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) update the previous recommendations for anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) (CDC. Use of anthrax vaccine in the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP]. MMWR 2000;49:1-20;...
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PMID: 20651644
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These results suggested that aerosolization of spores from drumheads had occurred. All isolates obtained from environmental and drum samples matched the patient's isolate by multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis using eight loci (MLVA-8). Public health agencies and persons with expos...
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PMID: 20651643
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Mastocytosis is a rare and heterogeneous disease characterized by various biological and clinical features with different prognosis and treatments. The disease is usually divided into 2 categories: a pure cutaneous and a systemic disease. Clinical features can be related to mast cell...
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PMID: 20162539
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Use of nonsystemic antimicrobials with activity against enteropathogens is a promising approach for treatment of infectious diarrhea and other nonsystemic gastrointestinal infections. Rifaximin is approved by the US FDA for the treatment of travelers' diarrhea caused by noninvasive strains of Escher...
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PMID: 20586560
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This single-center cohort study indicates that GI complications after isolated CABG remain rare with an incidence 1.43%. However, GI complications portend a significant mortality. The implications of intraoperative administration of fresh-frozen plasma and insertion of an intraaortic balloon pump de...
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PMID: 20609758
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