A 50-year-old female patient complained about watery diarrhea for two weeks. Because of back pain nonsteroidal antirheumatics had been prescribed for months before. The endoscopic and radiologic investigation demonstrated a large gastrocolic fistula due to NSAID-induced gastric ulceration and an acid-induced colitis in the transverse colon. Treatment consisted in partial gastric resection and r...

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Diarrheal disease in young children (toddlers) seems increasingly common tropical countries, especially dirty and dense urban areas. Diarrhea can last several days cause the body to lose fluids needed for survival. This study aimed determine sanitation factors that influence incidence of diarrhea. Methods: used a case-control design involving 100 respondents. All respondents were divided into t...

This study aims to analyze the factors influencing students' snacking habits on incidence of acute diarrhea. The method used is a cross-sectional survey with an explanatory research approach. results showed that there was effect attitude (p = 0.024), trust 0.007), availability snacks 0.012), peers 0.013), role family diarrhea 0.021), but no amount pocket money 0.466) and mass media in 0.0869). ...

Introduction Chronic diarrhea of infancy is a heterogeneous syndrome that includes several diseases with different etiologies. The aim of this study was investigating chronic diarrhea, its etiologies, clinical features and outcomes in infancy.Materials and Methods Retrospective study investigating infants hospitalized in the gastroenterology department of Tehran tertiary care center.The main de...

a rapid and simple technique for diagnosis of rotaviral diarrhea is polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (page) of dsrna extracted from fecal samples. to determine the electrophoretype of iranian calf rotavirus, 23 rotaviral positive fecal samples from diarrheic holstein calves at the age of less than one month in tehran region were examined. the viral dsrna was extracted with phenol-chloroform, ...

one of the great challenges in the treatment of infectious diseases is the resistance of pathogenic bacteria against antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance to shigella is broadly observed in different parts of the world. the object of this study was to determine shigella antibiotic resistance pattern against the antibiotics such as ampicillin, amoxicillin, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, chloram...

background and objective: despite consistent evidence that probiotics reduce the duration of diarrhea, there is only weak evidence for their efficacy in reducing the duration of hospitalization. another source of heteroge-neity for probiotic trials is the type of probiotic being assessed; also, information about combined products is scarce. methods: this is a randomized, single-blind controlled...