Gastrointestinal symptoms in psychiatry: comparison of direct applications and referrals Objective: Clinical experience and observations suggest that there are some discrepancies between patients who directly apply to psychiatry clinic, and who are referred from gastroenterology clinic to psychiatry clinic. Thus, we aimed to investigate differences related to the demographic and clinical charac...

Crohn's disease (CD) is a chronic inflammatory bowel of the gastrointestinal tract. One diagnostic steps to perform magnetic resonance enterography (MRE). The purpose study was compare MRE findings with clinical index activity - CDAI score, in order verify usefullness enterography. included 46 patients who underwent according standard protocol, dynamic contrast-enhanced sequences. All studies w...

The prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) symptoms in the general population is lower in Asian than Western countries. Data are lacking for countries in the Middle East. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and severity of GERD symptoms among Israeli Jews. A questionnaire including 8 specific questions for GERD symptoms was administered by telephone interview to a...

BACKGROUND Gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is a disorder that is common by seen in childhood and may lead to severe complications. In this study, we ascertained the incidence of GER among the children who had typical and atypical complaints of GER and whether there was a difference between two groups comparing the findings of 24-hour pH-meter. METHODS 39 out of 70 patients with typical and atyp...

OBJECTIVE Although gastrointestinal dysfunctions occur in the majority of patients with Parkinson's disease (PD), they are often unrecognized because many patients remain relatively asymptomatic in the early stage. We investigated the frequency of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with PD using newly developed gastrointestinal symptom questionnaires. METHODS Early PD patients with a sympt...

Abstract. Corona Virus Disease-19 or COVID-19 is a disease with million faces. The symptoms of this varied from classical such as fever, dry cough, tachypnea, anosmia and ageusia, to non-classical in the form gastrointestinal symptoms. Gastrointestinal (GI) includes diarrhea, nausea vomiting, abdominal pain. prognosis determined by several factors prominent being aged older than 70 years, comor...