Natural history of dyspepsia

Natural history of functional dyspepsia.

Natural history of patients with x-ray-negative dyspepsia in general practice.

When 102 patients with dyspepsia who had normal findings on barium-meal examination in 1964 were interviewed in 1970, 85 of them (76%) were symptomatically improved, and only three were later shown to have a peptic ulcer. This suggests that "x-ray-negative dyspepsia" has a good prognosis in a general practice setting.

Natural history , life history , and

We report on basic natural history, life history, and diet of Priapella chamulae (Poeciliidae) from Arroyo Tres, a small creek in Tabasco, southern México. The tertiary (adult) sex ratio was heavily female-skewed, female P. chamulae produced medium-sized offspring (~2.3 mg), one clutch at a time (i.e., showed no superfetation), and relied predominantly on yolk for embryo provisioning (Matrotrop...

Natural history of onchocerciasis.

Since the first description of ocular onchocerciasis in Africa was published (Hissette, 1931) many records have been made of the ocular lesions (e.g. Bryant, 1935; Hissette, 1938; Toulant and Boithias, 1952a, 1952b, 1954; World Health Organization Regional Conference on Onchocerciasis, 1956). However, no detailed account has been written of the progress of ocular signs and visual acuity in an u...

Natural History of Cirrhosis

G. Garcia-Tsao () Digestive Diseases Section, Yale University School of Medicine and VA-CT Healthcare System, 333 Cedar Street—1080 LMP, New Haven, CT 06510, USA e-mail: [email protected] Cirrhosis is considered the end stage of chronic liver disease of any etiology with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations that are due to portal hypertension and/or liver insufficiency. The...