Muhammed Ashraf Memon, Manjunath Siddaiah‐Subramanya, M. Belal Hossain, Rossita Mohamad Yunus et al.
OBJECTIVES: Although laparoscopic posterior fundoplication (LPF) i.e., Nissen or Toupet have the proven efficacy for controlling gastro-esophageal reflux surgically, there remain problems with postoperative dysphagia and gas bloat syndrome. To decrease some of these postoperative complications, lapa...
Lorcan McGarvey
Cough can persist despite exhaustive diagnostic and therapeutic effort and has been termed 'idiopathic' or 'unexplained' but perhaps 'difficult to treat' cough is a more appropriate description. In this article the reasons for poor treatment response are discussed. These include a lack of physician ...
A. N. Alam, Jnan R. Saha, Jay F. Dobkin, John Lindenbaum
Digoxin is metabolized to cardioinactive reduced metabolites (digoxin reduction products) in some patients by anaerobic bacteria present in the gut flora. We compared the tendencies of Americans and Bangladeshis to reduce digoxin by this pathway. Of 97 normal Americans in New York City, 34 (35.1%) w...
Mohammed Rafiqul Islam, David A. Sack, Jan Holmgren, Pradip Kumar Bardhan et al.
Four hundred and ten patients with severe watery diarrhea; including 316 patients with cholera, were studied in a double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled trial to determine if chlorpromazine (1 mg/kg) would be useful in the management of such patients. All patients were at least 7.5% dehydrated...
OA Obeid, Nasima Mannan, Gilbert J. Perry, RA Iles et al.
Mirza Abul Hashim, Amy D. Waterman
Combinations of acepromazine maleate, pethidine hydrochloride and atropine sulphate (0.05 mg/kg) or acepromazine maleate and pethidine hydrochloride and acepromazine maleate alone or atropine sulphate (0.1 mg/kg) alone were used to premedicate cats before they were anaesthetised with thiopentone, to...
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
A cohort of 151 infants and young children aged 1-23 months from a poor peri-urban community of Bangladesh was studied to determine the relationship between Helicobacter pylori colonization and morbidity due to diarrhoea. A 13C urea breath test was performed to detect the presence of H. pylori. Chil...
Sabera Khatun, Kumar Bishwajit Sutradhar
Medicated chewing gum has a history for about a century. Now-a-days it is considered to be a potential and conve-nient modified release drug delivery system which can be used in pain relief medication, smoking cessation, travel illness, freshening of breath, prevention of dental caries, alleviation ...
Rafi Abul Hasnath Siddique
Peptic Ulcer Disease or PUD, one of the most common ulcers, refers to ulcer of the gastrointestinal tract in the region of the stomach. This is an important cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world affecting the lives of millions of people in their everyday life. However, sufficient and...
B J Collins, Garrett Crothers, R. J. McFarland, A. H. G. Love
Intragastric total bile acid concentrations were measured before and after a corn oil test meal in 16 patients with erosive oesophagitis and symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux. Sixteen age and sex matched control subjects were also studied. No significant difference was detected between fasting o...
Xavier A Grandes, Ramya Talanki Manjunatha, Salma Habib, Sai Lahari Sangaraju et al.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is defined by retrograde reflux of gastric contents to the esophagus leading to various signs and symptoms that range from heartburn/regurgitation to the development of extraesophageal respiratory syndromes like asthma. Although a cause-effect relationship has ...
Maya Shaha, Irin Perveen, MJ Alamgir, MH Masud et al.
Despite a common disorder population-based data on gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) in Bangladesh is lacking. This epidemiological study was designed to determine the prevalence of GERD and its association with lifestyle factors. This population-based cross-sectional study was done by door to...
I. J. Carré, Paul Froggatt
A family is described in which eight members in three successive generations had a sliding type of oesophageal hiatus hernia (or partial thoracic stomach) as a sole anomaly. The trait in this family behaved as a strict dominant, manifesting the segregation of a single abnormal autosomal gene. Other ...
Sanjeev Kharel, Anil Bist, Suraj Shrestha, Sushan Homagain
We aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of Helicobacter pylori among asymptomatic South Asians based on available literature and highlight the importance of screening asymptomatic individuals and implementing preventive strategies for eradicating H. pylori . Electronic databases such as PubMed an...
A.E. Waterman, Mirza Abul Hashim, H. PEARSON
The effect of body position on lower oesophageal sphincter pressure (LOSP), gastric pressure and barrier pressure (BrP) was investigated in 40 dogs anaesthetised for neutering procedures. The dogs were placed in lateral recumbency followed by dorsal recumbency (group 1) or vice versa (group 2). LOSP...