As a result of COVID-19, the last few weeks have necessitated reevaluation sedation paradigm for gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopic procedures. Routine screening and some surveillance procedures taken backseat likely to remain so until vaccine or effective treatment becomes available. Anesthesia providers endoscopists are required adapt this new reality rapidly. The general aim remains same-patie...

OBJECTIVE To describe growth and clinical evolution of very low birth weight infants fed during hospital stay with milk from a human milk bank according to the caloric-protein value. METHOD Forty very low birth weight infants were included: 10 were fed milk from their own mothers (GI), and 30 were fed human milk bank > 700 cal/L and 2 g/dL of protein. Growth curves were adjusted using nonline...

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) tract symptoms are common among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) seen in tertiary care centers. The degree to which this reflects referral bias is unclear. OBJECTIVES To determine whether GI tract symptoms are more prevalent in unselected patients with DM from the general community compared with their age- and sex-matched counterparts without DM and to ass...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have evaluated the association between NQO1 609C>T polymorphism and gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. However, the results remain inconclusive. To obtain a more precise estimation of the relation, we conducted an analysis of all available case-control studies. METHODS Eligible studies were identified by searching the databases and finally 19 articles were included in t...

OBJECTIVE To retrospectively evaluate the CT findings and clinicopathologic features in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) involvement of recurrent renal cell carcinoma (RCC). MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records were reviewed for 15 patients with 19 pathologically proven GI tract metastases of RCC. The CT findings were analyzed to determine the involved sites and type of involvement; l...

We have examined the associations between dietary glycaemic index (GI), substitutions of total, low-, medium- and high-GI carbohydrates for fat and the risk of CHD. The study consisted of 21 955 male smokers, aged 50-69 years, within the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study. The diet was assessed at baseline using a validated FFQ. During a 19-year follow-up, 4379 CHD cases (2...

background: it is thought that the transmission of hepatitis b virus (hbv) through the endoscopic procedures is a very rare event. the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of the standard disinfection procedure of the endoscopes and accessories versus conventional disinfection in the transmission of hbv. materials and methods: a prospective survey, comprising 520 consecutive upper gastro...