Browsing by Subject "Gastroenterology"
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(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 1983)Our aim was to develop a chronic canine model that would serve for the simultaneous measurements of postprandial gastric secretion and emptying by a double-marker dilution technique without artificially interfering with ...
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(BioMed Central Ltd., 2002)Background: The cytotoxin associated gene A (cagA), and the vacuolating cytotoxin gene A (vacA) of Helicobacter pylori have been associated to phenotypic characteristics of virulence. The objectives of this study were to ...
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(1995)In search of an environmental factor which modulates the expressivity of cholestasis of pregnancy and explains the seasonal and annual variations observed in Finland and Chile, the authors measured selenium (Se) concentration ...
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(1989)Chile is the country with the highest incidence of gallstone disease in the world. Nearly 44% of the women and 25% of the men over 20 years of age have gallstones. Biliary tract surgery accounts for about 35% of all the ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2006)In the last few years bariatric surgery has become an excellent therapeutic alternative for the treatment of morbid obesity. Food bezoar as a cause for obstruction seems to be a very infrequent postoperative complication. ...
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(1972)Our Chilean colleagues, keenly sensitive to the prevalence of gastric cancer in that country, describe a patient with an antral ulcer which appeared to be highly suspicious of an early gastric carcinoma. Such was not the ...
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(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 1985)A prospective study was performed in 17 patients with achalasia of the esophagus determining the manometric characteristics of the gastroesophageal sphincter, correlating in with hisotological analysis by biopsies taken ...
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(Elsevier, 2018)Background: ALPPS procedure has been introduced to increase the volume of future liver remnant. The mechanisms underlying the accelerated regeneration observed with ALPPS are unknown. It was hypothesized that AMPK/mTOR ...
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(Mosby, 2014)Background: The over-the-scope clip (OTSC) provides more durable and full-thickness closure as compared with standard clips. Only case reports and small case series have reported on outcomes of OTSC closure of GI ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2004)
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Latin-American Consensus on Chronic Constipation Consenso Latinoamericano de Estreñimiento Crónico (Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2008)The Latin-American Consensus on Chronic Constipation aimed to establish guidelines to improve the identification, diagnosis and treatment of this disorder in the region. Two coordinators and an honorary coordinator established ...
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(Ediciones Doyma, S.L., 2004)
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(1996)Objectives: We studied prospectively in a single-blind controlled manner the efficacy of 4-wk triple-antibiotic therapy, with amoxicillin (500 mg p.o., t.i.d.), metronidazole (250 mg p.o., t.i.d.), and bismuth subsalicylate ...
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(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 1981)Pressure measurements of the whole extrahepatic biliary tract were performed in dogs using constant perfusion techniques. Studies were done during general anesthesia and in conscious trained dogs. Gallbladder intraluminal ...
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(1974)Esophageal motility tests with constantly perfused polyethylene catheters were done in 50 patients with achalasia of the esophagus using 30 asymptomatic adults as control. The mean gastroesophageal sphincter pressure was ...
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(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers, 1979)We have investigated the effect of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs on canine pyloric sphincter pressure, mucosal potential difference (PD), and duodenogastric reflux in 5 dogs. Only intragastric aspirin at doses of 30 ...
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(1997)Altered small intestinal motility has been observed in patients with liver cirrhosis. Its pathophysiology remains to be defined. Our aim was to investigate the effect of orthotopic liver transplantation on small intestinal ...