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Introduction: It’s a rare report about intestinal obstruction caused by barium retention after small bowel radiography of oral barium. An 83-year-old woman was admitted for bile duct cancer with metal stent and incomplete intestinal obstruction .The patient ever did upper gastrointestinal barium meal examination which showed the mucosa of descending part of duodenum was unclear and contrast med...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS In hemostasis for colonic diverticular bleeding, the incidence of recurrent bleeding is higher in deep colonic diverticulum than in shallow. We aimed to improve and evaluate barium impaction therapy using an enteroscopic overtube with balloon. PATIENTS AND METHOD We performed barium impaction therapy in three patients with a diagnosis of deep colonic diverticular bleeding....

The aspiration of barium contrast is a rare complication that may occur during studies of the digestive tract. Barium is an inert material that can cause anywhere from an asymptomatic mechanical obstruction to serious symptoms of respiratory distress that can result in patient death. We present the case of a 79-year-old male patient in whom we observed the presence of contrast medium residue in...

The effect of poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP), sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS), hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC), and D-fructose additives on the growth of BaTiO3 particles by aqueous synthesis is studied. Through different mechanisms, all the tested additives influenced the growth of BaTiO3. For high concentrations, PAA adsorbed on specific crystallographic faces changing...

Hospital-acquired infections remain a costly clinical problem. Barium sulfate (BaSO4, in micron particulate form) is a common radiopacifying agent that is added to catheters and endotracheal tubes. Due to the recently observed ability of nanostructured surface features to decrease functions of bacteria without the aid of antibiotics, the objective of this in vitro study was to incorporate nano-...

OBJECTIVE This preliminarily study was designed to determine and to compare the efficacy of two commercially available barium-based fecal tagging agents for CT colonography (CTC) (high-density [40% w/v] and low-density [4.6% w/v] barium suspensions) in a population in Korea. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a population with an identified with an average-risk for colorectal cancer, 15 adults were adm...

Gastric diverticulae are not common. They are usually found incidentally while evaluating the upper gastro-intestinal tract (GIT) with oral contrast. Double contrast barium meal study is very useful in the diagnosis and computerized tomography (CT) and endoscopy are at times used for further assessment of this condition. To report the first case of gastric diverticulum seen by the authors after...

Timed barium esophagogram (TBE) is a simple and objective method for assessing the esophageal emptying. The technique of TBE is similar to usual barium swallow with some modifications, which include taking multiple sequential films at pre-decided time interval after a single swallow of a fixed volume of a specific density barium solution. While many authors have used height and width of the bar...

Studies on animals and in man indicate that metoclopramide increases the gastric emptying rate, has a potent antiemetic effect, and is virtually free of side effects (Boisson and Albot, 1966). A substance with such attributes would obviously be very useful in clinical radiology. A preliminary study made on 95 consecutive patients referred for barium meal examination supported these findings. Of...