Progress in gastroenterology

Progress and Prospects in Gastroenterology ANNALS OF GASTROENTEROLOGY 2001, 14(4):273-280 Hepatitis B and C

The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome has a circular, partially double stranded DNA. It belongs to the hepadnaviridae family of viruses and replicates within infected liver cells. The HBV is not a cytotoxic virus. Viral nucleocapsid antigens, HBeAg and/or HBcAg, expressed with HLA class I antigens on the hepatocytes plasma membrane are believed to be the major targets for activated cytotoxic T cel...

Gastroenterología y Hepatología PROGRESS IN GASTROENTEROLOGY Update on topical steroid therapy for eosinophilic esophagitis

Gastroenterology

This book is one of a series of handbooks commissioned by the British Nuclear Medicine Society to act as a guide to Clinicians interested in the clinical use of radioactive tracers. The book is designed to discuss the potential applications of radioactive trace methods to clinical problem solving. No one would dispute the attraction of a series of this kind and after the choice of topic, the mo...

Gastroenterology

IN Part I of this book practical health education is offered at all the critical periods of life's development, from womb to tomb. The book is enjoyable to read, but some medical data may only be read and understood by the more educated public, and not by socially deprived people in the community. An admirable attempt is made however to educate about what constitutes 'Health and Non-Health' and...

Update in gastroenterology.

I will consider the literature on screening or surveillance for Barrett esophagus. In programs designed to screen for Barrett esophagus, members of the general population who are believed to be at increased risk (usually those with gastroesophageal reflux, although, as we will see, the at-risk population may be larger) undergo endoscopic evaluation once to establish or exclude the disease. Surv...