Review article: pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of gastrointestinal involvement in systemic sclerosis. [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: Gastrointestinal tract (GIT) involvement is a common cause of debilitating symptoms in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). There are no disease modifying therapies for this condition and the treatment remains symptomatic, largely owing to
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Mechanisms underlying bone loss associated with gut inflammation [PDF]
, 2019 Patients with gastrointestinal diseases frequently suffer from skeletal abnormality, characterized by reduced bone mineral density, increased fracture risk, and/or joint inflammation.
Abu-Amer, Yousef, Arra, Manoj, Ke, Ke
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Video Capsule Endoscopy and Ingestible Electronics: Emerging Trends in Sensors, Circuits, Materials, Telemetry, Optics, and Rapid Reading Software [PDF]
Advanced Devices & Instrumentation, 2021, 2022 Real-time monitoring of the gastrointestinal tract in a safe and comfortable manner is valuable for the diagnosis and therapy of many diseases. Within this realm, our review captures the trends in ingestible capsule systems with a focus on hardware and software technologies used for capsule endoscopy and remote patient monitoring.
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Three rare cases of anthrax arising from the same source [PDF]
, 2006 Anthrax is an acute bacterial infection caused by Bacillus anthracis. Humans become infected under natural conditions by contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products.
Abbas Arjmand +21 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 Genetic factors are recognized to contribute to peptic ulcer disease (PUD) and other gastrointestinal diseases, such as gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Yeda Wu +5 more
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Nonesophageal Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders: Clinical Care and Future Directions [PDF]
, 2018 Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders are a set of conditions with a wide range of clinical manifestations and treatment modalities. The disorders are suspected to result from an abnormal inflammatory response to allergen(s), and individuals may ...
Gupta, Sandeep K., Naramore, Sara
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Ileocecal appendix involvement in fabry disease mimicking an acute abdomen [PDF]
, 2014 Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) is a rare, X-linked, lysosomal storage disorder due to a deficiency of alphagalactosidase A. The direct consequence is a lipid storage with the accumulation of glycosphingolipids throughout the body.
Cristi E +5 more
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Endoscopic findings and psychometric abnormalities: what is the relationship in upper endoscopic outpatients? [PDF]
, 2015 Background. Psychological disorders are often associated with diseases of the upper digestive tract. Although emotions can influence gastrointestinal function in healthy individuals, psychological setting in upper gastrointestinal patients are unclear ...
ANGELINI, Rita +8 more
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Nature Communications, 2021 A key challenge for the effective treatment of gastrointestinal diseases including inflammatory bowel disease is to develop an orally administered drug delivery system capable of prolonged retention in the gastrointestinal tract.
Pengchao Zhao +12 more
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Gastrointestinal Disorder Detection with a Transformer Based Approach [PDF]
, 2022 Accurate disease categorization using endoscopic images is a significant problem in Gastroenterology. This paper describes a technique for assisting medical diagnosis procedures and identifying gastrointestinal tract disorders based on the categorization of characteristics taken from endoscopic pictures using a vision transformer and transfer learning ...
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