Latest AI and machine learning research in gastroenterology for healthcare professionals.
A 76-year-old man presented with many bullous lesions and erythema over his whole body in August 2014. Blood examination showed an elevation of the anti-BP180 antibody (658 U/mL) and a biopsied specimen of the skin lesions showed subepidermal bulla. A diagnosis of bullous pemphigoid was made based on the clinical and histological findings. Although 20 mg/day of prednisolone was administered, there...
A 76-year-old man underwent surgery for sigmoid colon cancer. The pathological finding was stage â…¡ with a high-risk of recurrence (SI [bladder], l y0, v2, pN0, H0, P0, M0). He was treated with TS-1 as adjuvant chemotherapy. After the 1 course of chemotherapy, his platelet count was 4,000/mL. The high index of platelet associated IgG (PA-IgG) and bone marrow examination suggested that thrombocytope...
A 77 year-old man with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria underwent a cystoscopic examination, which identified a broad-based papillary tumor at the c...
An 87-year-old man visited our hospital with a chief complaint of melena. Invagination caused by rectal cancer or sigmoid colon cancer was suspected a...
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and feasibility of the bioabsorbable staple line reinforcement in distal pancreatic resectio...
OBJECTIVE: To reveal if whether fennel fruit (Fructus Foeniculi) tea drinking enhances the recovery of intestinal function after gynecologic malignanc...
The ratio of monocytes and lymphocytes (ML ratio) in peripheral blood is associated with tuberculosis and malaria disease risk and cancer and cardiova...
OBJECTIVE: To observe the clinical efficacy on constipation predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-C) treated with acupuncture for regulating the m...
To character a novel chimera(1b/2a) hepatitis C virus cell culture (HCVcc) system carrying envelope E1E2 coding gene from Hebei strain of China, chime...
Hepatic fibrosis models were induced by CCl4 in rats. To explore vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGFβ1) m...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the value of Chinese herbal fumigation in the postoperative anal disease. The authors randomly divided 348 p...
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the risk factors that cause arterial blood lactate (Lac) elevation in patients after gastrointestinal operation.
The objective of this study was to analyze the predictive significance of different prognostic factors associated with recurrence and metastasis after...
To investigate the effects of gambognic acid (GA) on TRAIL-induced apoptosis of cancer cells, human colon HT-29 cancer cells were treated with GA to p...
OBJECTIVE: To explore the expression of T cell immunoglobulin and mucin domain protein 3 (Tim-3) on CD56(+) NK cells in peripheral blood and its corre...
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to analyze the learning curve for laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy (LDP) in our series and review the literatur...
OBJECTIVE: To study the effects of ethanol extracts of Phellinus lonicerinus on hepatic stellate cells of fibrosis liver in rats.
BACKGROUND: Totally robotic gastric bypass (robotic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, R-RYGBP) has been adopted in some centers on the basis of large retrospe...
BACKGROUND: The adoption of robotic systems for gastric cancer surgery has been proven feasible and safe; however, a benefit over the laparoscopic app...