Our experience with these patients is similar to that provided in the literature. We consider that it is important to identify any associated anomalies, especially heart disease, craniofacial anomalies and other gastrointestinal malformations, because they condition the patient's management. Patholo...

Scientists of Pyatigorsky State Research Institute of Balneotherapeutics are actively engaged in developing new medical technologies for rehabilitative treatment of patients with a variety of pathological conditions based on the current knowledge about mechanisms of action of natural therapeutic fac...

The high incidence of chronic digestive diseases is recorded in chemical industry workers exposed to the isolated action of noxious substances. The aim of the investigation was to make a hygienic assessment of the risk for occupational digestive diseases in chemical industry workers exposed to a com...

During the last 3 decades the use of parenteral nutrition (PN) and the aggressive introduction of enteral feeding in daily practice have transformed the outcome for even the sickest of these infants. More than 90% of infants and children now survive after extensive small bowel resection in the neona...

Long wait times for health care have become a significant issue in Canada. As part of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology's Human Resource initiative, a questionnaire was developed to survey patients regarding wait times for initial gastroenterology consultation and its impact. A total of 91...

The aim of this work was to determine the average prevalence of cats with parasites in their alimentary canal in the area of Szczecin and to identify the parasite species in the alimentary canal in these animals. This research was carried on: domestic cats, stray cats and cats from the Animal Shelte...

The prevalence of HP was 68.60% (results of assays were positive for 142 patients out of 207). This study confirmed statistically significant correlation between HP seropositivity and pancreatic cancer (p = 0.02), hepatocellular cancer (p = 0.000), gastric cancer (p = 0.01), colon cancer (p = 0.002)...

A total of 1038 Muscovites (740 males and 298 females) aged 20 to 60 years were examined using a broad range of clinical and diagnostic methods. In the study cohort, the prevalence of all diseases taken together was 1533 cases per 1000 examinees, the number of cases being 1108.1 and 2590.6% per hund...

In patients with concomitant pathology, chronic gastritis is a most frequently detectable disease of the digestive system (62.3%), gastroenterological complaints being insignificant. The rate of Helicobacter pylori infection was 68.2% (in Group 2 patients) to 83.7% (in Group 1). A morphological stud...

In 1958, A. M. Ugolev (1926-1991) discovered parietal (membrane) digestion (MD) that differs fundamentally from cavity and intracellular digestion in the strictly directed arrangement of active centers of enzymes and in coupling to the membrane transport systems. The three-stage sequential triad: ca...