...Yosuke Inukai; Kenta Yamamoto; Takashi Honda; Takanori Ito; Norihiro Imai; Yoji Ishizu; Masanao Nakamura; Hiroki Kawashima; Masatoshi Ishigami Introduction: Lenvatinib has been widely used for the treatment of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Some adverse events, including diarrhea, have...

... be considered for person-to-person transmission in the community. In our study, it was aimed to investigate the characteristics of patients with COVID-19-related diarrhea symptoms. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted retrospectively in CO-VID-19 rtRT-PCR-positive patients in 5 medical centers. Three...

... 2013 to July 2017. All patients were diagnosed with constipation as defined by the Roma III criteria. Enrolled patients received lubiprostone orally (24 or 48 μg daily), after which we investigated the incidence of AEs. The causative factors for diarrhea and nausea, the most common AEs, were examined...

... defined by the Rome criteria. Method: In this observational study, 1,729 consecutive outpatients (73% females) filled out the Rome III questionnaire and 10-point Likert scales for constipation, diarrhea, bloating (BL)/distension, abdominal pain (AP) during the week before the medical consultation...

...Jan Tack; Tim Vanuytsel; Maura Corsetti In the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), loperamide seems efficacious for diarrhea and ispaghula for constipation, while musculotropic spasmolytics may relieve abdominal pain. Antidepressants were found to be efficacious for abdominal pain...

... adults, diarrhea is the most common presentation followed by anemia. Screening at-risk groups, metabolic bone disease and incidental recognition at endoscopy performed for reflux are the other main modes of presentation. The bulk of those with CD remain undiagnosed. The symptoms are often common...

...Eric V. Marietta; Amanda Cartee; Abdul Rishi; Joseph A. Murray Background/Aims: Many medications can cause diarrhea by increasing motility, inflammation or enteropathy. Olmesartan and mycophenolic acid (CellCept) are drugs that are capable of increasing inflammation and enteropathy in some...

... in 3 different bariatric procedures (modified after Malinowski [3]) Clinically relevant malabsorption should be taken into consideration if one or more of the following symptoms are present in a patient after bariatric surgery: gastrointestinal symptoms including diarrhea, abdominal...

...; J.M. Canard Introduction: Little is known about the intensity of symptoms of diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D) or the consequences of the disease on patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This observational investigation assessed the symptoms (abdominal pain, bloating, number of stools per...

... in several epidemics over the past decade. The spectrum of disease caused by C. difficile infection ranges from chronic diarrhea to colitis. In its most severe form, patients with C. difficile infection present with pseudomembranous colitis, with or without megacolon. A 2007 epidemiological study...

... [ 7,8 ], resulting in symptoms such as diarrhea, bloating, or pain, which may be difficult to differentiate from symptoms caused by the underlying inflammation. Mechanisms and management of antibiotic-associated diarrhea have been reviewed [ 9 ]. In healthy persons, the intestinal mucosa serve...

...Michael J.G. Farthing Acute diarrhea is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Infants and pre-school children are the most vulnerable in whom there are 2–3 million deaths each year as a result of the associated dehydration and acidosis. Although oral rehydration therapy has reduced...

... latent celiac disease is applied in situations where the patient has normal villous architecture while on a gluten-containing diet, but later develops small bowel villous atrophy compatible with celiac disease. 27 9 1999 Celiac disease Dermatitis herpetiformis Diarrhea Latency Autoimmune...

...Gregory D. Potter Bile acids normally undergo enterohepatic circulation. When this circulation is interrupted, bile acids enter the colon in increased concentrations. Here, they produce Cl – secretion by a calcium- and cyclic AMP-dependent mechanism, resulting in diarrhea. Cholestasis may lead...