Increased esophageal acid exposure in gastroesophageal reflux disease has several potential causes, some related primarily to physiological dysfunction of the LES and others related to anatomic distortion of the gastroesophageal junction as occurs with hiatus hernia. One attractive feature of implicating hiatal hernias in the pathogenesis of reflux disease is that, like reflux disease, axial he...

Three cases of gall bladder distention in asphyxiated newborns are described. Clinical and ultrasound examination showed this to be a benign, transient phenomenon. A causal relation between tissue hypoxia and gall bladder distention is proposed.

Abstract Bayesians often appeal to “merging of opinions” rebut charges excessive subjectivity. But what happens in the short run is greater interest than limit. Seidenfeld and coauthors use this observation as motivation for investigating counterintuitive phenomenon dilation, since, they allege, dilation “the opposite” asymptotic merging opinions. The measure uncertainty relevant however, not o...

Background/Aims Dai-kenchu-to (DKT), a traditional Japanese herbal medicine, is known to increase gastrointestinal motility and improve ileal function. We tested our hypotheses that (1) pretreatment with DKT would block the colorectal distention-induced visceromotor response in rats, and (2) pretreatment with DKT would attenuate colorectal distention-induced adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) r...

PURPOSE To prove the feasibility of air-distended magnetic resonance colonography (MRC) and compare it with water-based distention. MATERIALS AND METHODS In five volunteers, the colon was imaged twice: once after distending the colon with air and a second time after distending the colon with water. A total of 50 patients, who had been referred to colonoscopy for a suspected colorectal patholo...

AIM To investigate if immediate arterial distention can be used as a predictive factor for the development of a good fistula. MATERIAL AND METHODS Over a 5-months period (January- May 2015) all the patients who underwent an arteriovenous fistula between the radial artery and the cephalic vein of the forearm at the Second Surgical Clinic of the Iasi Regional Cancer Institute and were willing t...