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1 Chemically defined ‘ elemental ’ diets containing nutrients in simple , easily assimilable form with nitrogen provided as free amino acids , carbohydrate as simple sugars or glucose polymers , and fat present in very small amounts , were initially used as nutritional support in patients with Crohn 's disease .
2 The incidence of coagulopathy ( prolongation of the prothrombin time or activated partial thromboplastin time ) after peritoneovenous shunting in patients with malignant ascites is 0% to 10% .
3 Not only does spinal stabilisation for early scoliosis in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy maintain sitting balance but it is also associated with a slower deterioration in lung function .
4 Our earlier study of bisphosphonate treatment in patients with TIH showed that a fall in plasma calcium does not stimulate tumour production of PTHrP .
5 This significant correlation between faecal fat and wet weight indicates that malabsorption of fat could be the main determinant of faecal weight in patients with mild to moderate exocrine pancreatic insufficiency .
6 We report the results of a survey of the incidence of resistant propionibacteria in patients with acne .
7 Nevertheless , the current finding of a statistically significant greater degree of reticulin collapse in patients who died than in the survivors clearly points out the important prognostic connotation of the severity of histological damage in patients with acute liver failure .
8 This is the first reported study to show convincingly the presence of functional hyposplenism in patients with alcoholic liver disease .
9 This study shows that alcohol consumption is an important independent predictor of peripheral oedema in patients with chronic bronchitis and emphysema .
10 The site of increased resistance in patients with acute liver failure has not been clearly established .
11 These results are the first controlled data to syggest that cyclosporin may be of clinical benefit in patients with ulcerative colitis .
12 Dr Pearson and Dr Rix point out that the level of psychiatric disorder in patients with a variety of other bowel complaints is much lower — only 34 per cent compared to 86 per cent .
13 Considering the increased incidence of gastric adenocarcinoma in patients with pernicious anaemia , the present study is in agreement with several previous reports .
14 Nevertheless , taken together , the data so far reported for the role of endogenous fibrinolysis in patients with coronary ischaemia seem to suggest that the evaluation of tPA and PAI values might be helpful in the prognostic assessment .
15 On the other hand , results of restorative proctocolectomy in patients with megacolon and megarectum have been good .
16 The effect of this agent may be a result of its ability to reduce the lithogenicity of bile and it may therefore be of particular benefit in patients with complicating biliary calculi .
17 In the first comprehensive study of intestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis , we have shown a high prevalence of abnormalities in intestinal transit and absorption .
18 This study aimed to evaluate various aspects of gastrointestinal function in patients with diarrhoea caused by chronic radiation enteritis and the effects of treatment with the peripheral opiate agonist precursor loperamide-N-oxide .
19 We did a prospective , double-blind , crossover study to assess the effects of supplemental oxygen in patients with hypoxaemic dyspnoea and terminal cancer .
20 Tests of renal function in patients with quiescent colitis : effects of drug treatment
21 Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus .
22 Although the present investigation did not reveal more platelet activating factor in colonic mucosa in patients with Crohn 's disease in remission than in controls , this hypothesis could be possible but needs further investigations .
23 A study to determine if excellent metabolic control reduced the mortality from myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes was disappointingly negative ( Gwilt et al , 1984 ) , but a similar study on a smaller number of patients in Scotland showed considerable benefit ( Clark et al , 1985 ) indicating the need for further investigation .
24 We conclude that ( 1 ) reactive oxygen species are generated in increased amounts in inflamed mucosa in patients with ulcerative colitis ; ( 2 ) these increased values of reactive oxygen species may be an important contributor to the tissue injury in ulcerative colitis ; ( 3 ) the most likely cellular source of reactive oxygen species in ulcerative colitis is the neutrophil ; ( 4 ) a likely culprit in the tissue injury is a product of the myeloperoxidase reaction , namely hypochlorous acid ; ( 5 ) arachadonic acid pathways , including cyclo-oxygenase and lipoxygenase , probably do not significantly contribute to production of reactive oxygen species by the inflamed mucosa .
25 In view of the fact that there is virtually no resistance to gastrooesophageal reflux in patients with Barrett 's oesophagus , this increased duodenogastric reflux is likely to result in significant exposure of the oesophageal mucosa to duodenal juices .
26 While this is a reasonable assumption in normal subjects , it can lead to significant error in patients with inflammatory disease , such as pancreatitis , where juice may be contaminated with exudative proteins .
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