The ASGE Technology Committee provides reviews of existing, new, or emerging endoscopic technologies that have an impact on the practice of GI endoscopy. Evidence-based methodology is used, performing a MEDLINE literature search to identify pertinent clinical studies on the topic and a MAUDE (U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health) database search to identi...

It is now recognised that Helicobacter pylori, like most enteric infections, is mainly acquired in childhood. Adults rarely become infected, with seroconversion rates varying between 0.33and 0.5% per person year. The age at which children are most likely to become infected is still unclear, but findings in a number of cross-sectional studies suggest that infection is acquired before the age of ...

diarrheal diseases can be caused by viral, bacterial and parasitic infections. this paper provides a preliminary image of diarrhea with regards to etiology and epidemiologic factors in tunisian children less than five years of age.overall, 124 diarrhoeal stools were collected from patients suffering from acute diarrhea and 54 stool samples from healthy children. all stools were examined for the...

conclusions the most important factor in childhood acute gastroenteritis in east anatolia is the rotavirus. rotavirus and adenovirus antigens should be routinely investigated as a factor in fresh stool samples for the accurate diagnosis and treatment of gastroenteritis in children in the winter and autumn months. patients and methods the records of stool sample analyses for 1154 patients admitt...

Small bowel evaluation is warranted in all newly diagnosed cases of Crohn’s disease (CD) as small involved two-thirds CD patients at diagnosis and the involvement can be discontinuous. Endoscopic suspected or established done by video capsule endoscopy (VCE), device assisted enteroscopy (DAE) (which includes single double balloon enteroscopy, novel motorized spiral (NMSE) guided (BGE)) intra-op...

Introduction: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy is  as a diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases in children. Due to severe response and spastic in  the muscles of the digestive tract is created during endoscopy,endoscopy is often face with difficult. The aim of this study is to evaluate peppermint impact in pyloric spasm in children undergo endoscopy.   Material and Methods: In this ...

Clostridium perfringens is an important cause of enteric diseases in both human and animals. The bacteria produce several toxins which play key roles in the pathogenesis of diseases and are classified into five toxin types, on the basis of the differential production of Alpha, Beta, Epsilon and Iota toxins. In this study a single PCR assay was developed and used for detection of cpb2 gene to id...

Background and Aims: Enteric diseases have had detrimental impacts on commercial poultry through depressing growth rates and caused considerable economic losses to poultry producers. Chicken astrovirus (CAstV) is one of the most common viruses related to enteric diseases in chickens, especially in young chicks. Materials and Methods: Chicken astroviruses were detected by reverse transcriptase ...

introduction: endoscopy is an invasive and painful procedure in children. since children can not tolerate pain and stress, sedation is necessary in pediatric endoscopy. the aim of this study was comparison of propofol versus intravenous midazolam for reducing anxiety in children.   materials and methods: in this study, 103 patients (2-14 years old) in whom endoscopy was indicated were divided i...