Background: One of the causes malnutrition that often occurs is gastrointestinal disorders. The existence anatomical and physiological abnormalities in tract main cause. This study aimed to assess relationship between disorders incidence children with cerebral palsy WKCP community Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
 Methods: A cross-sectional analytic observational involving 20 subjects who met inclus...

INTRODUCTION Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is widely performed as treatment of morbid obesity. Long-term weight loss, effects on co-morbidities, and quality of life after RYGB have been well addressed. Other long-term outcomes are less elucidated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, symptom characteristics, and possible predictors of chronic abdominal pain and gastrointestin...

A gluten-free diet (GFD) is currently the only available treatment for patients with celiac disease (CD). Several clinical trials have demonstrated that most celiac patients can tolerate a medium-high quantity of oats without any negative clinical effects; however, the inclusion of oats in GFD is still a matter of debate. In this study, Italian children with CD were enrolled in a 15-month, rand...

Abstract Background and Aims Gastrointestinal symptoms are prevalent in patients with end-stage renal disease. such related to gastric hypomotility, increased medication intake, uremia, changes diet. In addition GI problems associated bowel dysfunction a common cause of technique failure poor dialysis efficacy. The reason for presence some gastrointestinal is also chronic inflammatory state. In...

OBJECTIVE To compare clinical, health-related quality of life (HRQL), and medical cost outcomes in patients with symptomatic gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) receiving omeprazole sodium or ranitidine hydrochloride treatment. METHODS A multicenter, randomized, open-label, medical effectiveness trial conducted in 5 university-based family medicine clinics. Two hundred sixty-eight patients...

AIM The association of motilin, ghrelin, leptin, gastrin, pepsinogen (PG) I and II with cancer chemotherapy-associated dyspepsia syndrome (CADS) was investigated in 35 patients with breast cancer receiving first cycle of 5-fluorouracil, cyclophosphamide, epirubicin (FEC60) chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS The onset of dyspeptic symptoms on days 3 and 10 after chemotherapy identified patient...

INTRODUCTION Functional dyspepsia (FD), a common functional gastrointestinal disorder, has a complex underlying pathophysiological mechanism that involves changes in gastric motility, visceral hypersensitivity, genetic susceptibility, psychosocial factors and Helicobacter pylori infection. Although there are several H. pylori eradication treatments, there is not enough data that compare these d...

aim and background: alexithymia or emotional inhibition is an important risk factor for psychosomatic disorders such as gastrointestinal disorders. the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the dimensions of alexithymia with depression and anxiety in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid). methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlation study, 129 pat...

Objective. To compare the quality of life patients with spontaneous internal biliary fistula (SIBF) and without them, before after surgery.
 Materials methods. 82 (38.7%) were diagnosed Mirizzi syndrome (MS) type I, 130 (61.3%) II (II-V) MS. During study, classification A. Csendes - M. Beltran was used. By sex, distributed as follows: there 68 men (32.0%), women 144 (68.0%). The age ranged...