Esophageal Contractions in Pati ...
Background Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia is a mitochondrial myopathy that causes muscular or multisystem symptoms and has dysphagia a ...
Polyp Recurrence After Endoscop ...
Background Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is used for treatment of sessile and flat colonic adenomas. There is limited data comparing polyp recu ...
Patterns of Gram-Stained Fecal ...
Background The gut is an important target organ of injury during critically ill conditions. Although Gram staining is a common and quick method for ...
Lack of Grafted Liver Rejuvenat ...
Background A grafted donor liver should grow and survive under the different conditions presented by a liver transplantation recipient. It has remai ...
Experience with the New 4-Way, ...
Background and Study Aims Use of ultrathin (ut) endoscopes is sometimes limited by their design (outer diameter, tip angulation and image quality). ...
Breath-Ammonia Testing of Healt ...
Background Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious neuropsychiatric complication in both acute and chronic liver disease. Aims To establish the ut ...
Smoking and the Association of ...
Background Identifying risk factors for advanced colorectal adenomas may aid in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, especially in light of the Americ ...
Expanding Applications: The Pot ...
Diverticular disease is a common bowel condition, the pathogenesis of which is incompletely understood. Acute exacerbations of diverticular disease ...
Small HCCs Identified by Screen ...
Background Survival in HCC depends on diagnosis at early tumor stage, best achieved through surveillance radiology. There is also a need for complem ...
The Expression of Protease-Acti ...
Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) pathophysiology has not been fully understood. Abnormalities of serine proteases have been identified in I ...
The Impact of Time Elapsed Betw ...
Background Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is frequently used for staging of esophageal malignancies prior to esophagectomy. Aims The purpose of this s ...
Perinodal Adipose Tissue and Me ...
Background Colitis induced by trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS) with reactivation is a good experimental model for studying inflammatory bowel di ...
Aberrant CpG Island Hypermethyl ...
Background Aberrant CpG island hypermethylation is a major epigenetic mechanism that can inactivate the transcription of cancer-related genes. Purp ...
Feasibility of Forward-Viewing ...
Background and Aim The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of forward-viewing upper endoscopy for detection of the major duodenal pa ...
The Impact of Post-Infectious F ...
Background and Aim Mental and physical health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are important health impact measures following military deployment. Wh ...
Transient leukoencephalopathy a ...
Methotrexate (MTX) is an indispensable antimetabolite for the treatment of oncological and immunological disorders in all age groups. It can be admi ...
Difference between urban and ru ...
Background Many environmental and genetic factors are presumed to be involved in the etiology of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). We devel ...
Esophageal squamous cell carcin ...
Esophageal achalasia is a primary motility disorder of the esophagus. Although various treatments can relieve the symptoms, esophageal cancer arisin ...
Vestibular-evoked myogenic pote ...
Recently, the favoured approach for unilateral testing of saccular function is the recently developed method of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential ...
Surgical indication in Menie`re ...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of surgical approach in a population of patients affected by definite Menie`re’s disease (MD). I ...
CO2 gas exchange across the hum ...
Past in vivo studies in humans showed that the tympanic membrane (TM) is permeable to physiological gases. Animal studies show that transTM CO2 cond ...
Voice handicap index and voice- ...
Laryngeal cancer can affect the patients’ voice. For assessment of the patients’ self-perception of their voice, several tools were introduced into ...
Extracranial head and neck schw ...
Schwannoma is a type of benign nerve sheath tumour arising from the Schwann cell. Because of the close relationship between the tumour and the nerve ...
Photodynamic therapy of early s ...
The indications of photodynamic therapy (PDT) of oral cavity and oropharynx neoplasms are not well deWned. The main reason is that the success rates ...
The changing surgical managemen ...
The management of juvenile nasopharyngeal angioWbroma (JNA) has changed during the last decades but it still continues to be a challenge for the mul ...