... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. xTAG gastrointestinal pathogen panel assay Enteric pathogens Diarrhea Kuwait Consecutive diarrheal stool samples from patients hospitalized at Mubarak Al-Kabeer...

... indications. Subjects and Methods: One hundred and sixty-five nonbleeding patients were enrolled in the study. The most common indications for CE were chronic abdominal pain alone (33 patients) or combined with chronic diarrhea (31 patients) and chronic diarrhea alone (30 patients). Among the 165 patients...

...Faisal A. Khuffash; Tarif Al-Karmi; Khidr N. Najdi; Malak H. Kalaawi Sera were collected from 18 children with celiac disease and 49 children with other forms of chronic diarrhea. Of the 49 children with other forms of chronic diarrhea, 35 had postenteritis, 8 had giardiasis and 6 had other...

...Farid H. Abu-Elamreen; Abdalla A. Abed; Fadel A. Sharif Objectives: To determine the etiology of acute diarrhea in Palestinian children under 5 years of age and to improve knowledge of the etiology of gastrointestinal pathogens using traditional and molecular diagnostic techniques. Materials...

... positive for the breath hydrogen test. The clinical symptoms of flatulence, abdominal pain, and diarrhea were associated with high levels of breath hydrogen. Conclusion: The findings indicate that the Kuwaiti volunteers had higher breath hydrogen levels than Asians, but the incidence of lactose intolerance...

... associated with chronic altered bowel habits are the mainstay in diagnosis, while the supportive criteria may be used to further classify IBS patients into diarrhea-predominant or constipation-predominant subgroups. Minimal diagnostic tests have been advocated in the initial diagnostic approach to patients...