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A fully resolved active musculo-mechanical model for esophageal transport [PDF]

Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 298, 1 October 2015, Pages 446-465, 2015
Esophageal transport is a physiological process that mechanically transports an ingested food bolus from the pharynx to the stomach via the esophagus, a multi-layered muscular tube. This process involves interactions between the bolus, the esophagus, and the neurally coordinated activation of the esophageal muscles.
arxiv   +1 more source

Regression of esophageal varices and splenomegaly in two patients with hepatitis-C-related liver cirrhosis after interferon and ribavirin combination therapy [PDF]

Clinical and Molecular Hepatology, 2016
Some recent studies have found regression of liver cirrhosis after antiviral therapy in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related liver cirrhosis, but there have been no reports of complete regression of esophageal varices after interferon/peg ...
Soon Jae Lee, Yoo-Kyung Cho, Soo-Young Na, Eun Kwang Choi, Sun Jin Boo, Seung Uk Jeong, Hyung Joo Song, Heung Up Kim, Bong Soo Kim, Byung-Cheol Song   +9 more
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Novel endoscopic treatment strategy for early esophageal cancer in cirrhotic patients with esophageal varices.

Oncology Letters, 2019
The safety and efficacy of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and radiofrequency ablation for early esophageal cancer (EEC) in cirrhotic patients has not been thoroughly investigated to date.
Zhengrong Xu, Yongbing Zhao, Jin Yu, Jianying Bai, En Liu, B. Tang, Shiming Yang   +6 more
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A Fibreoptic Endoscopic Study of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding at Bugando Medical Centre in Northwestern Tanzania: a Retrospective Review of 240 Cases. [PDF]

, 2012
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is recognized as a common and potentially life-threatening abdominal emergency that needs a prompt assessment and aggressive emergency treatment.
A Elghuel, A Timraz, AB Olokoba, AG Kankaria, Anthony Liwa, C Meaden, C Zaltman, D Pateron, DA Peura, DE Elliott, DJ Cook, DJ Exon, Eliasa Mkongo, EM Vreeburg, FK Chan, G Theocharis, GS Kibiki, HC Wolfsen, HM Salih, Hyasinta Jaka, J Chasawat, J Villanueva Palacios, JA Forrest, K Aoki, K Kivkin, K Palmer, M Suba, M Urassa, Mabula D Mchembe, Mariam Mirambo, ME Van Leerdam, Mheta Koy, MJ Kaviani, MN Lakhwani, N Sarin, NK Arora, P Vlavianos, Phillipo L Chalya, Rodrick Kabangila, S Mustapha, SA Hearnshaw, T Alempijevic, TA Rockall, TA Rockall, V Balderas, Wolfgang Scheppach   +45 more
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Deep-learning models in medical image analysis: Detection of esophagitis from the Kvasir Dataset [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Early detection of esophagitis is important because this condition can progress to cancer if left untreated. However, the accuracies of different deep learning models in detecting esophagitis have yet to be compared. Thus, this study aimed to compare the accuracies of convolutional neural network models (GoogLeNet, ResNet-50, MobileNet V2, and ...
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Νon-invasive screening for esophageal varices in patients with liver cirrhosis

Annals of gastroenterology : quarterly publication of the Hellenic Society of Gastroenterology, 2018
Esophageal varices are one of the main complications of liver cirrhosis. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is the gold standard for the detection of esophageal varices.
A. Karatzas, Christos Konstantakis, I. Aggeletopoulou, C. Kalogeropoulou, K. Thomopoulos, C. Triantos   +5 more
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Hepatosplenic sarcoidosis complicated by liver cirrhosis [PDF]

, 2015
Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic disease usually affecting the lungs and mediastinal lymph nodes. Other organs, such as the liver and the spleen, are less commonly involved. Patients usually present with mild nonspecific symptoms.
Bernard, Philippe, Peters, Benjamin, Van Dijck, Herwig, Van Overbeke, Lode, Vanhoenacker, Filip   +4 more
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Use of the platelet count/spleen diameter ratio for the noninvasive diagnosis of esophageal varices in patients with schistosomiasis

The Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology, 2011
Background/Aim: In patients with liver cirrhosis, the platelet count/spleen diameter ratio has been validated as a parameter for the noninvasive diagnosis of esophageal varices.
Adnan Agha, Mamdouh M Abdulhadi, Simona Marenco, Abdelhaleem Bella, Dib AlSaudi, Ahmed El-Haddad, Simona Inferrera, Vincenzo Savarino, Edoardo G Giannini   +8 more
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Idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension: current perspectives [PDF]

, 2016
The term idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension (INCPH) has been recently proposed to replace terms, such as hepatoportal sclerosis, idiopathic portal hypertension, incomplete septal cirrhosis, and nodular regenerative hyperplasia, used to describe ...
D'AMATI, Giulia, Gioia, Stefania, Nicoletti, Valeria, PENTASSUGLIO, ILARIA, RIGGIO, Oliviero, VALENTE, MICHELE   +5 more
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Machine learning approach for biopsy-based identification of eosinophilic esophagitis reveals importance of global features [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Goal: Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an allergic inflammatory condition characterized by eosinophil accumulation in the esophageal mucosa. EoE diagnosis includes a manual assessment of eosinophil levels in mucosal biopsies - a time-consuming, laborious task that is difficult to standardize. One of the main challenges in automating this process, like
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