Reevaluating our understanding of lactulose breath tests by incorporating hydrogen sulfide measurements [PDF]
JGH Open, 2019 Background and Aim Breath testing has become a commonly used tool in gastroenterology to evaluate changes in the fermentation pattern of the gut microbiome.
Aleksandr Birg, Steve Hu, Henry C Lin
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European guideline on indications, performance and clinical impact of 13 C-breath tests in adult and pediatric patients: An EAGEN, ESNM, and ESPGHAN consensus, supported by EPC. [PDF]
United European Gastroenterol J, 2021 Introduction 13C‐breath tests are valuable, noninvasive diagnostic tests that can be widely applied for the assessment of gastroenterological symptoms and diseases.
Keller J +16 more
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Breath Tests Used in the Context of Bariatric Surgery [PDF]
Diagnostics, 2022 This review article focuses on the use of breath tests in the field of bariatrics and obesitology. The first part of the review is an introduction to breath test problematics with a focus on their use in bariatrics.
Daniel Karas +6 more
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Methane breath tests and blood sugar tests in children with suspected carbohydrate malabsorption. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Carbohydrate malabsorption and subsequent gastrointestinal symptoms are a common clinical problem in pediatrics. Hydrogen (H2) and methane (CH4) breath tests are a cheap and non-invasive procedure for diagnosing fructose and lactose malabsorption (FM/LM)
Schneider C, Wutzke KD, Däbritz J.
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Breath Tests for the Non-invasive Diagnosis of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis. [PDF]
J Neurogastroenterol Motil, 2020 Background/Aims Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) diagnosis is usually based on non-invasive breath tests (BTs), namely lactulose BT (LBT) and glucose BT (GBT).
Losurdo G +6 more
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Modification of baseline status to improve breath tests performance [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Breath tests used to evaluate carbohydrates malabsorption require baseline H2 and CH4 levels as low as possible. Test cancellation is recommended when exceeding certain cut-offs (H2 ≥ 20 ppm and CH4 ≥ 10 ppm).
Estibaliz Alegre +4 more
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Breath Biomarkers in Diagnostic Applications
Molecules, 2021 The detection of chemical compounds in exhaled human breath presents an opportunity to determine physiological state, diagnose disease or assess environmental exposure.
Y Lan Pham, Jonathan Beauchamp
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JAMA Oncol, 2019 Importance The detection and quantification of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) within exhaled breath have evolved gradually for the diagnosis of cancer. The overall diagnostic accuracy of proposed tests remains unknown.
Hanna GB +3 more
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Breath tests and irritable bowel syndrome. [PDF]
World J Gastroenterol, 2014 Breath tests are non-invasive tests and can detect H₂ and CH₄ gases which are produced by bacterial fermentation of unabsorbed intestinal carbohydrate and are excreted in the breath.
Rana SV, Malik A.
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Breath tests for gastrointestinal diseases - will it be safe to conduct breath tests after the COVID-19 pandemic? [PDF]
Clinics, 2020 Rejane Mattar
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