Functional diarrhoea: the acid test.

the effect of functional/notional approach on the proficiency level of efl learners and its evaluation through functional test

in fact, this study focused on the following questions: 1. is there any difference between the effect of functional/notional approach and the structural approaches to language teaching on the proficiency test of efl learners? 2. can a rather innovative language test referred to as "functional test" ge devised so so to measure the proficiency test of efl learners, and thus be as much reliable an...

75Se HCAT test in the detection of bile acid malabsorption in functional diarrhoea and its correlation with small bowel transit.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether bile acid malabsorption assessed by the 75SeHCAT test, had a pathogenetic role in functional chronic diarrhoea and to ascertain whether the small bowel transit time (SBTT) could be correlated with the 75SeHCAT test results. The test was based on the counting of the abdominal retention of a 75-selenium labelled homotaurocholic acid. The 75SeHCAT ...

Managing bile acid diarrhoea.

Bowel symptoms including diarrhoea can be produced when excess bile acids (BA) are present in the colon. This condition, known as bile acid or bile salt malabsorption, has been under recognized, as the best diagnostic method, the (75)Se-homocholic acid taurine (SeHCAT) test, is not available in many countries and is not fully utilized in others. Reduced SeHCAT retention establishes that this is...

Bile Acid Induced Diarrhoea

Bile Acid Malabsorption/Diarrhoea

Bile acid malabsorption leads to chronic watery, non-bloody diarrhoea. Many patients present with symptoms suggestive of IBS. Idiopathic BAM (no obvious cause) occurs in both men and women, mostly between the ages of 30 and 70. There is often a long history of diarrhoea at the time of diagnosis, sometimes lasting longer than 10 years. The diarrhoea is continuous or intermittent; nocturnal diarr...