OBJECTIVE To determine the burden of enteric fever through trends in morbidity and mortality, bacterial species and antimicrobial resistance in Guangxi, a southern, subtropical, coastal province of China with a disproportionally large burden of enteric fever. METHODS Data on morbidity and mortality caused by enteric fever between 1994 and 2004 were extracted from the Guangxi Center for Diseas...

Background and study aims Safety attitudes are linked to patient outcomes. The Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (JAG) identifies the need improve our understanding of safety culture in endoscopy. We describe development validation Endo-SAQ (endoscopy questionnaire) results a national survey staff attitudes. Methods Questions from original SAQ were adapted reflect endoscopy-spe...

herein, we present the case of a 45-year-old woman with pulsion and midesophageal diverticula, who had complaints of dysphagia and regurgitation. diagnosis was confirmed by endoscopy and barium swallow. the patient underwent right posterolateral thoracotomy with excision of diverticula and repair of the muscular layer along the site of diverticula. five days following the operation, barium swal...

ingestion of ciprofloxacin can be associated with esophagitis and esophageal ulcer. we report a 46-yearold man with odynophagia and dysphagia following ciprofloxacin ingestion, with a glance on diagnosis and treatment. also, we propose recommendations for prevention of drug-induced esophagitis, according to shape, size, formulation and their etiologic role on esophagitis.

background: helicobacter pylori (h.p) and non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs (nsaid) are the most common cause of peptic ulcer disease (pud). this study was designed to identify endoscopic, clinical and demographic features of patients with h.p positive in comparison with nsaid related pud.methods: from december 2004 to march 2008, 5885 patients underwent upper gi tract endoscopy in a large ...

Enteric glia are important participants in information processing in the enteric nervous system. However, intercellular signaling mechanisms in enteric glia remain largely unknown. We postulated that intercellular calcium waves exist in enteric glia. Primary cultures of enteric glia were isolated from neonatal guinea pig taenia coli. Intracellular calcium in individual cells was quantified with...

Enteric glia are neural crest derivatives. Kabouridis et al. (2015) now show in adult animals that new glia arise within the ganglia of enteric plexuses and then migrate centripetally to colonize the mucosa. Remarkably, enteric microbiota regulate this critical migration.