BACKGROUND AND AIM The aim of the present study was to endoscopically evaluate ileal mucosal healing during maintenance therapy with infliximab in order to investigate the clinical significance of endoscopic examination of ileal lesions in Crohn's disease patients. METHODS This study retrospectively analyzed 54 patients who mainly had active ulcers of the ileum on endoscopy at baseline who we...

Objectives- Using conjunctival graft to replace experimental mucosal defects of teatsinus.Study- Experimental study.Animals- Five healthy, mature, lactating, Jersey cows.Methods- Conjunct ival mucosal gra fts with teat cannula were evaluated in the repair of experimentalteat sinusmucosal lesions. A 1.5xl em wide circumferential strip of mucosa was resected from each teat in five Jersey cows. Ea...

Characteristic mucosal lesions in resected small intestinal segments from seven patients are reported. Preoperatively, four patients were in shock and general hypotension while the three remaining cases showed signs of local intestinal hypotension. The microscopic appearance of the mucosal lesions was in all patients identical with that previously observed in the feline and canine small intesti...

clinically used for the treatment of gastric ulcers and gastritis. Takagi and Yano reported that when gefarnate was orally administered to fasted rats for 5 d, the level of hexosamine, an index of gastric mucus, in the pyloric tissue of the stomach increased and that the reduction of hexosamine content in the gastric pyloric tissue of rats with 3 d of water immersion restraint stress (WIRS) was...

Tobacco smoking is one of the most important risk factors for the development of oral mucosal lesions such as leukoplakia and hairy tongue. Controversy exists in the literature, however, about the prevalence of oral lesions in smokers. The aim of this study was to evaluate oral lesions in male smokers compared with nonsmokers in Hamadan. A total of 516 male participants were assessed, 258 of wh...

BACKGROUND Patients with diabetes mellitus have been associated with a number of changes in the oral cavity, such as gingivitis, periodontitis, mucosal diseases, salivary dysfunction, altered taste, and burning mouth. OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in patients with diabetes mellitus. METHODS A cross-sectional observational study between August and October 201...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this clinical study was to assess the prevalence of acidic oral mucosal lesions and periodontal conditions in patients suffering from erosive esophageal reflux disease (ERD) compared with non erosive esophageal reflux disease (NERD) patients, both treated with long term proton pump inhibitors (PPI). METHODS Seventy-one patients with diagnosed GERD were studied: i.e. ...

pyoderma vegetans (pv) is a rare inflammatory disorder characterized by vegetating pustules and plaques affecting the skin and mucosal membranes. it is believed that this entity is mostly associated with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd), chronic malnutrition, human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), malignancies, and other immunocompromised states. pyoderma vegetans occurs more commonly in young and...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions in Manipal, Karnataka State, India. A total of 1190 subjects who visited the department of oral medicine and radiology for diagnosis of various oral complaints over a period of 3 months were interviewed and clinically examined for oral mucosal lesions. The result showed the presence of one or more mucosal le...

BACKGROUND Kerala is a highly urbanized state in India and interstate migrant laborers working there forms a marginalized community. It was generally perceived that use of tobacco and alcohol was high among the workers, but there are no epidemiological studies assessing the actual burden. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of use of tobacco and also the prevalence of oral mucosal lesions a...