Gastrointestinal Diseases - Diagnosis
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Monday, November 23, 2009

NOTES and other emerging trends in gastrointestinal endoscopy and surgery: the change that we need and the change that is real.

29 Sep 2009 In this inaugural year of a historic presidency, gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons may well want to turn their attention to more immediate transformative events that have the potential to revolutionize their own practice in the near ... Read more...

[Gastrointestinal symptoms predominant in refugee children with malaria]

12 Sep 2009 We present three cases of malaria in refugee children newly arrived from Sub-saharan Africa. Only one of the three children had fever and all had high parasite loads (2,5-14% parasitemia). Malaria is an important differential diagnosis in refugees ... Read more...

Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study.

7 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The pathophysiology of upper gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms is still poorly understood. Psychological symptoms were found to be more common in patients with functional gastrointestinal complaints, but it is debated whether they are ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Gastrointestinal Diseases - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Psychotic woman with painful abdominal distension. Life-threatening psychotropic drug-induced gastrointestinal hypomotility. 30 Oct 2009
• NOTES and other emerging trends in gastrointestinal endoscopy and surgery: the change that we need and the change that is real. 29 Sep 2009
• [Gastrointestinal symptoms predominant in refugee children with malaria] 12 Sep 2009
• Capsule endoscopy. 9 Sep 2009
• Upper gastrointestinal symptoms, psychosocial co-morbidity and health care seeking in general practice: population based case control study. 7 Sep 2009
• [Interventional endoscopic ultrasound: an evolving technique] 31 Aug 2009
• Flexible endoscopy in small animals. 30 Aug 2009
• Capsule endoscopy of the esophagus. 30 Jul 2009
• Accuracy of urea breath tests tablets after 10 minutes compared with standard 30 minutes to diagnose and monitoring Helicobacter pylori infection: a randomized controlled trial. 30 Jul 2009
• Equine grass sickness: epidemiology, diagnosis, and global distribution. 30 Jul 2009
• Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalopathy due to mutations in RRM2B. 30 Jul 2009
• Cancer emergencies: the acute abdomen. 30 Jul 2009
• Autism and the gut. 25 Jul 2009
• Incidence of gastrointestinal symptoms in children with autism: a population-based study. 25 Jul 2009
• Functional gastrointestinal disorders: past and present. 7 Jul 2009
• Are there more bowel symptoms in children with autism compared to normal children and children with other developmental and neurological disorders?: A case control study. 29 Jun 2009
• The future is wireless: advances in wireless diagnostic and therapeutic technologies in gastroenterology. 19 Jun 2009
• [Gastroenterology 2009] 8 Jun 2009
• Complications of gastric bypass: avoiding the Roux-en-O configuration. 7 Jun 2009
• Position paper of the working group of three Polish national consultants in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and cardiology on prevention of gastrointestinal complications during antiplatelet treatment. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Gastrointestinal Diseases'

Definition: Diseases in any segment of the GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT from ESOPHAGUS to RECTUM.

Descriptor UI: D005767

Alternative terms: Gastrointestinal Diseases; Disease, Gastrointestinal; Diseases, Gastrointestinal; Gastrointestinal Disease; Cholera Infantum; Infantum, Cholera; Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders; Disorder, Functional Gastrointestinal; Disorders, Functional Gastrointestinal; Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder; Gastrointestinal Disorder, Functional; Gastrointestinal Disorders, Functional;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C06.405;

Online Note: pre-explosion = GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES (PX)

History Note: 65

Technical Notes: general: prefer specifics; inflammatory disease = GASTROENTERITIS