Respiratory Care, 2020 The estimation of pleural pressure with esophageal manometry has been used for decades, and it has been a fertile area of physiology research in healthy subject as well as during mechanical ventilation in patients with lung injury. However, its scarce adoption in clinical practice takes its roots from the (false) ideas that it requires expertise with ...
Tài, Pham +2 more
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Chicago Classification ver. 4.0: Diagnosis of Peristaltic Disorder
The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2022 The Chicago Classification is being revised continuously for the accurate diagnosis of esophageal peristaltic disorders in which the etiology is unclear, and the disease behavior is heterogeneous. The ver. 4.0 was recently updated.
Soo In Choi
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Artifact Rejection Methodology Enables Continuous, Noninvasive Measurement of Gastric Myoelectric Activity in Ambulatory Subjects. [PDF]
, 2018 The increasing prevalence of functional and motility gastrointestinal (GI) disorders is at odds with bottlenecks in their diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
Coleman, Todd P +5 more
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Effects of the GABA(B) agonist baclofen on volitional swallowing in normal subjects
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2023 The GABA(B) receptor agonist baclofen is known to suppress the rate of spontaneous swallowing but not pharyngeal muscle contraction. The extent to which baclofen may alter volitional swallowing is not currently known.
Jui‐Sheng Hung +8 more
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Does the minimal occlusive volume technique provide adequate endotracheal tube cuff pressure to prevent air leakage?: a prospective, randomized, crossover clinical study [PDF]
Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2020 Background Methods of determining proper endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff pressure to prevent air leakage include the minimal occlusive volume (MOV) technique, which uses auscultation, and the spirometer technique, which directly measures inspiratory and ...
Ha Yeon Park, Mina Kim, Junyong In
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Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal, 2022 Background: The anterior fontanelle (AF) tension has been a traditional clinical method of indirect assessment of intracranial pressure (ICP). How does this time-tested bedside assessment technique compare with an objective ventricular cerebrospinal ...
Mesi Mathew +4 more
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Effects of abdominal and vaginal hysterectomy on anorectal functions along with quality of life of the patient [PDF]
, 2018 Objectives and background:Hysterectomy is the most commonly performed major gynecological operation for both benign and malign gynecologic conditions.
Birsen, Onur +3 more
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Oesophageal Manometry in Experimental Pigs: Methods and Initial Experience
Acta Medica, 2016 The aim of this study project was to prepare our own method of porcine oesophageal manometry. Ten mature experimental pigs entered the study. Conventional water-perfused system was decided for manometry. Porcine resting and relaxed pressures of the lower
Ilja Tachecí +5 more
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The gastric acid pocket is attenuated in H. pylori infected subjects [PDF]
, 2016 Objective Gastric acid secretory capacity in different anatomical regions, including the postprandial acid pocket, was assessed in Helicobacter pylori positive and negative volunteers in a Western population. Design We studied 31 H.
Ballantyne, Stuart A. +6 more
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Dysmotility in Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an immune mediated chronic inflammatory disease resulting from antigen exposure and is characterized by mucosal inflammation with eosinophils. Diagnosis is based on the histological finding of at least 15 eosinophils per
Charmaine Chai +2 more
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