Fibre-optic endoscopy was compared prospectively with double-contrast radiology in 53 consecutive patients admitted with acute gastrointestinal haemorrhage. The bleeding site was correctly identified by endoscopy in 94% of patients and the final diagnosis was correctly given in 89%. The corresponding figures with radiology were 83% and 74%. Among the 50 patients with a final diagnosis of a blee...

"Diaphragm disease" is a recently described entity seen in patients taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in which strictures or diaphragms develop in the small intestine.' A case of intermittent small bowel obstruction is reported, in which the cause was a combination of such diaphragms and herniation of the small bowel through a mesenteric defect. CASE REPORT. A 62-year-old woman, who ...

A 49-year-old woman from Trichur, Kerala, reported on March 7, 1961, and complained of severe dysphagia of a week's duration. This started after she had eaten a meal which included mutton curry. The dysphagia was less severe two days later after she had regurgitated some food containing pieces of mutton. She could swallow liquids at the time of admission to hospital. She was known to have been ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Laparoscopic Heller cardiomyotomy for the treatment of achalasia can be performed safely. The application of this minimally invasive approach has not been reported in Taiwan. This study assessed the results obtained using this new method in Taiwanese patients. METHODS From January 1998 to December 2000, we recruited 10 patients (3 men, 7 women; average age 37.3 yr) with...

A survey of all gastroenterologists in the Trent Region (population 4.7 million) showed that in 1992 the number of upper gastrointestinal endoscopies had continued to rise considerably. There were 8.6 per thousand of the population. Colonoscopies had also increased to 1.4 per thousand. There had been a large fall in barium meal examinations to 4.8 per thousand. Barium enema examinations had inc...

During a radiological study of the intestinal tract in tuberculous patients, it was noticed that the barium passed more rapidly through the colon in Indian patients with no signs of intestinal tuberculosis than was expected from the findings reported as normal for Europeans (Frimodt-Moller, 1943). It was thought that the cause might be found in the different types of diet used for Indians and E...

nanocrystalline particles of barium hexaferrite has been prepared by the sol–gel auto- combustion method using iron and barium nitrate with a ba:fe molar ratio of 1:10. the effect of fuel such as citric acid and aspartic acid was investigated on the structure and magnetic properties of nanoparticles. the results revealed that the formation of barium hexaferritefine particles is influenced by mo...