Furthermore, the cause of extraesophageal symptoms in many patients is often multifactorial rather than from reflux alone. The role of diagnostic testing in this group is to establish presence and degree of reflux and assess the likelihood that it may be linked to patients’ symptoms. Figure 1 ...
While over 150 types of worms can infect humans, most are very rare or animal pathogens that reach humans only accidentally (Table 9.1). Some, however, cause major public health problems. Even though the variety of worm infections encountered in temperate lands is very limited, they are often...
Diseases and conditions that affect the colon and the digestive system: Acid Reflux (GERD): Symptoms & Treatment Appendicitis: Signs & Symptoms Celiac Disease: Symptoms & Treatment Crohn's Disease: Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment Diarrhea: Causes, Symptoms & Treatments Gallstones: Causes, Treatment ...
4, 5 There is no standard definition of exactly what constitutes a pulmonary complication, but the most important complications are those that cause significant morbidity, such as postoperative pneumonia, or postoperative respiratory failure. Because all of the disorders discussed in this chapter ...
but the specific underlying mechanisms are unclear. We investigated the causal associations of GERD with stroke and its subtypes using Mendelian randomization (MR), and evaluated the potential mediating effects of modifiable stroke ...
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Cancer: Facts about the diseases that cause out-of-control cell growth The transverse colon is the top arm that spans from the left side to the right side like a bridge. The left arm is called the descending colon. The sigmoid is the “broken” part of the rectangle that creates an S...
The hepatitis C infection is more factor than are the infections that cause hepatitis A and hepatitis B. Hepatitis C infection happens in at any rate six hereditarily particular structures with 50 subtypes. A worldwide antibody would need to secure against every one of these variations of the ...
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 There is no standard definition of exactly what constitutes a pulmonary complication, but the most important complications are those that cause significant morbidity (e.g., postoperative pneumonia) and postoperative respiratory failure. Because all the disorders discussed in this...
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