BACKGROUND Gastro-oesophageal reflux afflicts up to 7% of all infants. Histamine-2 receptor antagonists are the most commonly prescribed medications for this disorder, but few controlled studies support this practice. AIM To evaluate the safety and efficacy of famotidine for infant gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. METHODS Thirty-five infants, 1.3-10.5 months of age, entered an 8-week, mul...

Six patients with antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with persistent gastrointestinal symptoms of HIV infection but without cutaneous lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma underwent endoscopy. Four also underwent barium meal examination. In all six cases small lesions were seen in the stomach at endoscopy, and histological examination of biopsy specimens taken from the lesions confi...

Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal increase in prevalence as well severity of opportunistic fungal infection (OFIs) despite availability different therapeutic options. This could be attributed to various reasons including increased immunocomprised patients. Awareness spectrum infections immunocompromised conditions and their epidemiological changes is critical for early diagnosis proper m...

today’s knowledge on oesophageal adenocarcinoma and its rising incidence has encouraged researcher to illustrate relationship between barrett’s disease and progression to adenocarcinoma. the incidence of this disease has been accelerated sharply in current decades since people life has changed. studies have been demonstrated that several potential factors including genetical  and environmental ...

objective(s): the present study aimed to evaluate the role of pretherapeutic 18fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographycomputed tomography (18f-fdg pet-ct) and maximum standardized uptake value (suvmax) in guiding the treatment strategy and predicting the prognosis of esophageal carcinoma, using the survival data of thepatients.methods: the present retrospective, cohort study wa...

background barrett’s oesophagus is a pre-malignant condition at gastroesophageal junction in which normal squamous epithelium is replaced by columnar shape epithelium, which predisposes oesophageal adenocarcinoma. it is known that barrett’s oesophagus evolves as a consequence of chronic gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. although progression of barrett’s oesophagus to adenocarcinoma is still un...