The gastrointestinal (GI) tract contains the largest mass of immune cells of any organ in the body. To manage the continuous exposure to environmental and dietary antigens and to commensal microbes, pathogens, and their metabolic products, the gut uses a number of strategies that promote mucosal...
Chapter 83 – Allergic Inflammatory Diseases of the Gastrointestinal TractAllergyEosinophilEosinophilic esophagitisIgETh2Eosinophil-associated gastrointestinal disorders (EGID) are a group of related disorders characterized by gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms and eosinophilic infiltration of the gastrointestinal ...
Inflammatory Diseases of theGastrointestinal Tract and Pharmacological Treatments The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract is critical for the digestion and absorption of food and the elimination of waste products. The absorption of dietary nutrients is facilitated through a physical epithelial barrier consisting...
Gastrointestinal diseases are those that affect any section of the gastrointestinal tract, from the oesophagus to the rectum, and the accessory digestive organs liver, gall bladder and pancreas. The term encompasses acute, chronic, recurrent or functional disorders and covers a wide range of dis...
Much of the progress in the understanding of gastrointestinal disorders has continued to center on the molecular underpinning of gastrointestinal neoplasia in the 21st century. First, the development of cancer in the setting of inflammatory conditions is well represented by the association of H. pylori...
IgG4-related conditions affecting the digestive tract are part of a multi-organ fibro-inflammatory disorder termed IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD), with autoimmune pancreatitis and IgG4-related cholangitis being the most prominent manifestations. Gastrointestinal symptoms include jaundice, weight loss, ab...
GI Leontiadis,VK Sharma,CW Howden - 《Archives of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 196发表: 1999年 Treatment and dosing of Helicobacter pylori infection: when pharmacology meets clinic. Helicobacter pylori infection is a major cause of diseases located in the upper gastrointestinal tract. Successful erad...
DISEASES OF THE GALL BLADDER AND BILE DUCTS IN RELATION TO DISEASES OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. Owing to the close anatomic proximity of the gall bladder and bile ducts to certain portions of the gastrointestinal tract, disease of one of these structures may be readily transmitted to the other...
Rheumatic manifestations of diseases primarily of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, or pancreas are frequent and vary from soft tissue rheumatism and carpal tunnel syndrome to Raynaud's phenomenon, osteoporosis, arthritis, and vasculitis. Some patients with celiac disease develop osteoporosis and arthritis...
Non-infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In: Rebhun's Diseases of Dairy Cattle (Divers, T.J. and Peek, S.F., editors), 2nd ed., Saunders Philadelphia. pp. 130 - 199.FUBINI, S., DIVERS, T.J. Non infectious diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In: DIVERS, T.J., ...