S D Ladas

..The aim of this pilot study was to determine safety and efficacy of an ultra short quadruple octreotide containing H. pylori eradication therapy in patients with peptic ulcer...

..Their aim will be to educate skilled endoscopists in the principles of teaching, which should be thoroughly grounded in the ethics of our profession...

..The aims of this retrospective study were to evaluate the quality of information given to the decision-makers (relatives) and determine the overall acceptance of the procedure by the patients' family...

..This prospective, randomised, open, pilot study was designed to investigate whether recombinant human erythropoietin (Epoetin) therapy accelerate haematocrit increase in the post-bleeding recovery period...

..To study the incidence of ulcerative colitis UC in the prefecture of Trikala, Central Greece...

..The aim of this survey was to investigate the rate of using premedication for routine diagnostic upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy in endoscopy societies, members of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE)...

..We have prospectively evaluated the performance of two commercially available serum enzyme immunoassays (EIA) detecting H. pylori immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies in the sera of untreated Greek patients...

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..It is a curable disease and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a pancreatic mass or abscess shown on ultrasound or computed tomography, especially in developing countries, where tuberculosis is common...

..The aims of the present study were to determine the percentage of patients who can successfully undergo nonsedated colonoscopy and to identify factors capable of predicting whether a colonoscopy can be completed without sedation...

..Rapid, reliable in-office tests are needed for applying the adopted screen-and-treat strategy in Helicobacter pylori-positive young dyspeptic patients...

..The dissolution of large gastric phytobezoars with cola nasogastric lavage is a safe, rapid and effective method. Patients may be treated in the medical ward, avoiding therapeutic endoscopy or surgery...

..The aim of the present study, therefore, was to study the impact of H. pylori CagA status on gastric juice vitamin C levels...

..Finally, the procedure-related mortality is provided in only 23% (6/26) of countries. CONCLUSION: The procedure of obtaining informed consent for endoscopy varies considerably and may need reevaluation...

..pylori eradication. CONCLUSION: Patients infected with strains of H. pylori that are cagA-positive are at increased risk of developing esophagitis after eradication of H. pylori...

..0022). The respective values for esophagitis were 0/33 (0%) and 6/35 (17.1%) (P = 0.0083). In conclusion, antisecretory treatment in H. pylori(+) patients, after successful eradication, is effective in preventing GERD...

..There are several reports showing a continuing fall in the incidence of acute appendicitis in the western countries. Our aim was to study the trend of the incidence of acute appendicitis in the Greek population over 30 years...

..Since in these studies either T- or Z-scores has been used, our aim was to compare T- and Z-score in identifying risk factors of osteoporosis in IBD patients...

..4; P=0.036). CONCLUSIONS: Tetracycline-containing quadruple rescue therapy is highly effective in treating H. pylori eradication failures of the omeprazole-amoxicillin-clarithromycin regimen...

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..The aim of this study was to investigate the need to educate endoscopists about the role of the ECs in European and Mediterranean countries...

..The study aims were to prospectively evaluate (i) the efficacy of APC in endoscopically mild and severe radiation proctitis, and (ii) the recurrence rate following successful treatment...

..In the era of the new millennium, a lot of preclinical and clinical research is published. However, ethico-legal, cost-effectiveness and patient care issues are not addressed equally...

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..However, the role of bowel preparation is controversial. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the role of bowel preparation and in particular its consequences on diagnostic yield in a meta-analysis of all relevant studies...

..In conclusion, the frequency of coincidental malabsorption of lactose, fructose, and sorbitol and intolerance to these sugars is not common, when normal adults ingest them at low doses...

..To investigate epithelial cell turnover alterations, and p53, bcl-2 protein expression during development of early and advanced gastric cancer in a Western population...

..Condylomata acuminata of the anal canal, a common sexually transmitted disease, are difficult-to-treat lesions with a high recurrence rate after initial successful treatment...

..Small intestine video-capsule endoscopy examination in patients with diabetes mellitus may be incomplete due to delayed gastric emptying...

..CONCLUSIONS: Hospitalization rates for cholelithiasis and/or acute cholecystitis increased by 45%, and doubled for elderly patients, while the case fatality rate of the disease halved in Greece over the past 30 years...

..Gastric phytobezoars represent the most common bezoars in patients with poor gastric motility. A variety of dissolution therapies and endoscopic fragmentation techniques have been evaluated as conservative treatment so as to avoid surgery...

..019). KGF is effective in the prevention of intestinal mucositis in patients undergoing auto-SCT. Patients with severe intestinal mucositis run a higher risk to develop infections...

..Association studies of SERT and GNB3 polymorphisms and IBS have shown diverse results among different populations, which might be due to subject composition differences...

..The role of Helicobacter pylori eradication to cure peptic ulcer disease in patients with cirrhosis is not clear...

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..Colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) is a new, noninvasive method for examining the entire colon. The reported yield of CCE in detecting colorectal polyps has shown variable results...

..The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different bowel preparations on video capsule endoscopy gastric- (GTT) and small-bowel transit time (SBTT) and the rate of caecal visualization...

..Onset of action of antisecretory agents is of pivotal importance for patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) treated "on-demand."..

..Our data indicate that the use of sedation for diagnostic gastrointestinal endoscopy is high in North America and Australia, but varies considerably among countries in Europe, Asia and Africa...

..The aim of our study was to investigate the incidence and pattern of belching during a 24-hour period...

..pylori) antigen in stool by conventional ELISA is a reliable non-invasive method for the diagnosis of H. pylori infection in untreated patients. Recently, rapid in-office stool tests have been developed for the same purpose...

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..pylori gastritis compared with normal controls. Our data suggest that gastric mucosa epithelial cell kinetics is differentiated by the anatomic site and H. pylori infection...

..The effects of ageing on small bowel video-capsule endoscopy (VCE) studies have not been studied prospectively yet...

..We conclude that certain H. pylori positive gastritis patients show PCR-detectable monoclonality, which is independent of the W-I grade of gastritis and cannot be taken as evidence of an existing neoplastic lesion...

..There was a significant association of hypergastrinemia and distal distribution of adenomas (p < 0.002). CONCLUSIONS: Our study shows that hypergastrinemia is a risk factor for CAs, especially of the distal colon...