Objective: to evaluate the relationship between common bile duct diameter and the risk of
sphincterotomy-induced pancreatitis. Methods: Two hundred and ten consecutive patients …

Objective: To evaluate gastroesophageal reflux disease in the elderly (people≥ 60 yr).
Methods: Basal gastric acid secretion was prospectively determined in 228 consecutive patients …

Since its approval by the Food and Drug Administration in September 1985, the Garren-Edwards
gastric bubble has been extensively used as an adjunct to diet and behavioral …

Physician burnout is a serious and growing threat to the medical profession and may
undermine efforts to maintain a sufficient physician workforce to care for the growing and aging …

Two hundred thirty patients with reflux symptoms and endoscopically proven erosive esophagitis
were enrolled from 15 US centers into a randomized, double-blind, dose-ranging study …

Cimetidine has been shown to be an effective drug for healing peptic ulcers and for preventing
their recurrence. In most clinical trials cimetidine has been associated with few side …

The aim of this study was to determine the range of activity and the location of lipase in the
human stomach. The range of lipase activity in gastric mucosa of surgical specimens from the …

Over the last few years the approach to managing patients with the Zollinger-Ellison
syndrome has changed dramatically. The establishment of gastrin hypersecretion by a non-beta …

We prospectively evaluated gastric acid output (mEq/ h), gastric volume output (ml/h), ambulatory
24-h esophageal pH monitoring, and the endoscopic appearance of the esophagus in …

Nonulcer dyspepsia with or without duodenitis and duodenal ulcer disease are often
considered to be a spectrum of the same acid-peptic process. Some reports evaluating basal …