background: acute upper gi bleeding (ugib) is a common medical emergency situation. in the past years, important changes have taken place that might have influenced the incidence, etiology, and outcome for patients with acute ugib. the aim of this study was to determine current time trends in the incidence, management, and prognosis of patients with ugib in 14 years period in a region in center...

BACKGROUND Replacing carbohydrate with protein acutely increases glomerular filtration rate (GFR) but is associated with faster, long-term kidney disease progression. The effects of carbohydrate type (i.e. glycemic index, GI) on kidney function are unknown. METHODS We conducted an ancillary study of a randomized, crossover feeding trial in overweight/obese adults without diabetes or kidney di...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Chronic gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is the leading cause of iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) in men older than 50 years and post-menopausal women. There is a scarcity of data regarding IDA patients without GI symptoms or signs. We conducted a prospective study to determine the prevalence and the locations of the GI tract lesions in patients with asymptomatic IDA. MET...

The objective of this study was to compare the aetiologic yield of standard-of-care microbiologic testing ordered by physicians with that of a multiplex PCR platform. Stool specimens obtained from children and young adults with gastrointestinal illness were evaluated by standard laboratory methods and a developmental version of the FilmArray Gastrointestinal (GI) Diagnostic System (FilmArray GI...

Table 3. Late toxicity (N) G0 G1 G2 G3 G4 Upper GI 26 23 3 0 0 0 Small intestine 26 24 2 0 0 0 Rectum/ sigmoid 26 18 7 1 0 0 GU 26 21 2 3 0 0 Fracture 26 16 8 2 0 0 Skin 26 26 0 0 0 0 GI: gastrointestinal toxicity, GU: genitourinary toxicity Copyright: © 2015 Wakatsuki et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits un...

We formulate a control problem for GI/GI/N+GI queue, whose objective is to trade off the long-run average operational costs with server utilization costs. To solve problem, we consider an asymptotic regime in which arrival rate and number of servers grow large. The solution associated fluid motivates that non-idling service disciplines are not general optimal, unless some arrivals turned away. ...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is one of the most common complications after continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation. More than one third of patients with incident bleed go on to develop recurrent GI bleeding. Octreotide, a somatostatin analog, is proposed to reduce the risk of recurrent GI bleeding in this population. METHODS AND RESULTS This multicenter, retro...

AIMS Low glycaemic index (GI) diets are beneficial in the management of hyperglycemia. Cardiovascular diseases are the major cause of mortality in diabetes therefore it is important to understand the effects of GI on blood lipids. The aim was to systematically review randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of low GI diets on blood lipids. DATA SYNTHESIS We searched OVID Medline, Embase and Cochra...

UNLABELLED Gastrointestinal disturbances are commonly reported in children with autism and may be associated with compositional changes in intestinal bacteria. In a previous report, we surveyed intestinal microbiota in ileal and cecal biopsy samples from children with autism and gastrointestinal dysfunction (AUT-GI) and children with only gastrointestinal dysfunction (Control-GI). Our results d...

IMPORTANCE: Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), various digestive symptoms have been frequently reported in a significant portion of patients infected with the virus. It is well established that most patients with COVID-19 have fever along with respiratory signs and symptoms, such as cough and dyspnea. We present 36 cases with chief complaint of gastrointestinal (GI) symp...