Digestive diseases

Digestive Diseases and Diabetes

diabetes: Not only is every digestive organ potentially affected by diabetes, but the liver and exocrine pancreas may also have a modulating if not causal role in the development of diabetes. Physiological abnormalities associated with diabetes have been described in every part of the digestive tract where measurements can be made. This chapter focuses on the relationships between diabetes and ...

Diseases of the Digestive System

By J. W. Farquhar, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. (Pp. 28; figs. 2. 5s). Edinburgh and London: S. & S. Livingstone, 1970. THIS little book of 27 pages adequately covers what parents of diabetic children need to know to enable them to manage their child's disability successfully. However, urine testing four times daily would seem to be a standard of perfection beyond reach and counting the total number of uri...

Intestinal Microbiota in Digestive Diseases.

BACKGROUND In recent years, especially after the development of sophisticated metagenomic studies, research on the intestinal microbiota has increased, radically transforming our knowledge about the microbiome and its association with health maintenance and disease development in humans. Increasing evidence has shown that a permanent alteration in microbiota composition or function (dysbiosis) ...

Diseases of the Digestive Canal

Critical issues in digestive diseases.

This article discussed the diagnosis and management of acute GI bleeding, prophylaxis against GI bleeding, acute pancreatitis, and acalculous cholecystitis. These diseases are commonly encountered in the ICU setting. Acute GI bleeding is usually obvious and with GI and with available interventional radiologic techniques, patients rarely need surgery. Conversely, acalculous cholecystitis is diff...