concern, anxiety and distress of patients undergoing upper gi endoscopy

Prevalence of helicobacter pylori in patients undergoing upper GI endoscopy in hospital No 1 Kerman university of medical sciences

Prevalence of helicobacter pylori was evaluated by urease test in 513 patients undergoing GI endoscopy, in hospital No1 Kerman university of medical sciences and health services from June 1992 through April 1993. H. Pylori was detected in 56.9℅ of tested samples by urease test. There was no significant correlation with sex, age and cigarette smoking. Prevalence of H.pylori was 16℅ in control gr...

upper gi endoscopy

upper gi endoscopy

The management of antithrombotic agents for patients undergoing GI endoscopy.

Ruben D. Acosta, MD, Neena S. Abraham, MD, MSCE, FASGE (invited content expert, ad-hoc member), Vinay Chandrasekhara, MD, Krishnavel V. Chathadi, MD, Dayna S. Early, MD, FASGE, Mohamad A. Eloubeidi, MD, MHS, FASGE, John A. Evans, MD, Ashley L. Faulx, MD, FASGE, Deborah A. Fisher, MD, MHS, FASGE, Lisa Fonkalsrud, BSN, RN, CGRN, Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD, FASGE, Mouen A. Khashab, MD, Jenifer R. Light...

Adverse events of upper GI endoscopy.

Anxiety Levels in Patients Undergoing Sedation for Elective Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Colonoscopy.

BACKGROUND Anxiety is a common preprocedural problem and during processing especially in interventional medical processes. AIM Aim of this study was to assess the level of anxiety in patients who will undergo upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and coloscopy. METHODS Five hundred patients scheduled to undergo sedation for elective upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and colonoscopy were studied. ...

Symptom-histopathology relation in upper GI endoscopy.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to examine the correlation between information obtained from patients before endoscopy and histopathological findings. MATERIAL AND METHODS One thousand, five hundred and thirty-six patients underwent upper GI endoscopy between January 2011-September 2012, without distinction of age and sex were included in the study. Patients with alarm symptoms, dysp...