Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) can cause serious voice problems and laryngopharyngeal disorders influencing the patient's quality of life. Forty-three patients with suspected laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) were included into a prospective study. The diagnosis was made on the basis of the patient's history, the videoendolaryngoscopy, the oesophago-gastroscopy and the biopsy of the oesophageal muc...

Endoscopic specialists performing gastroscopy, which relies on the naked eye, may benefit from a computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) system that employs deep learning. This report proposes utilizing CADx to classify normal and abnormal gastric cancer, gastritis, ulcer. The was trained using learning algorithm known as convolutional neural network (CNN). Specifically, Xception, includes depth-wise s...

BACKGROUND This prospective and randomized study was designed to compare safety, potential complications, and patient and examiner satisfaction of 2 anesthetic combinations - etomidate-remifentanil and propofol-remifentanil - in elderly patients undergoing diagnostic gastroscopy. MATERIAL AND METHODS A group of 720 patients, aged 60-80 years, scheduled for diagnostic gastroscopy under sedatio...

The article presents the literature review on anesthesiological support during gastroscopy and colonoscopy including evaluation of availability, effectiveness, safety patient’s comfort used methods. Data number endoscopic interventions in gastrointestinal tract performed under general anesthesia controlled sedation Vladivostok hospitals is provided. Low availability for these procedures public ...

According to the theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), energy runs through 12 meridians longitudinally up and down the body. The study objectives were to compare the meridian energy between subjects with and without abnormal gastroscopy findings. We applied a cross-sectional and correlational research design. The study included 1,223 participants who had their health examinations at a...

The aim the study was the evaluation of the treatment results of the internal ultrasound and gastroscopy-guided pancreatic pseudocysts. Material and methods. From 1994-2008 at the 2nd Department of General Surgery UJ CM there were 126 patients (incl. 45 female and 81 male) treated for pancreatic pseudocyst. Mean age of the women was 41.05 years (25-81) while men 48 years (19-79). Ultrasound and...

Blood-borne metastatic involvement of the stomach by cancer is a rare entity. According to the number of reports in the literature, the most common tumors that spread to the stomach through the blood stream are malignant melanoma, breast carcinoma and lung carcinoma. Recently, two cases of metastatic involvement of the stomach secondary to lung carcinoma were diagnosed by gastroscopy. The first...