Gastrointestinal diseases (abbrev. GI diseases or GI illnesses) refer to diseases involving the gastrointestinal tract, namely the esophagus, stomach,...
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Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) or gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is a chronic upper gastrointestinal disease in which stomach content...
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Gastrointestinal perforation, also known as gastrointestinal rupture, is a hole in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract. The gastrointestinal tract...
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The gastrointestinal tract (GI tract, digestive tract, alimentary canal) is the tract or passageway of the digestive system that leads from the mouth to...
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main types: upper gastrointestinal bleeding and lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Causes of upper GI bleeds include: peptic ulcer disease, esophageal varices...
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List of skin conditions (redirect from Gastrointestinal disease and skin lesions)
(September 2009). "Paraneoplastic dermatological manifestation of gastrointestinal malignancies". World J. Gastroenterol. 15 (35): 4372–79. doi:10.3748/wjg...
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Gastroenterology (redirect from Gastrointestinal medicine)
gastroesophageal reflux disease, gastrointestinal bleeding, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) which includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative...
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Irritable bowel syndrome (redirect from Irritable Bowel Disease)
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder characterized by a group of symptoms that commonly include abdominal pain, abdominal...
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mild or absent gastrointestinal symptoms, a wide number of symptoms involving any part of the body, or no obvious symptoms. Coeliac disease was first described...
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article dog health for information on this disease in dogs. Canine parvovirus is a sometimes fatal gastrointestinal infection that mainly affects puppies....
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colonic disease, a third having ileocolic disease, and a third having ileal disease. The disease may also involve perianal, upper gastrointestinal, and extraintestinal...
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Diverticulitis (category Diseases of intestines)
Diverticulitis, also called colonic diverticulitis, is a gastrointestinal disease characterized by inflammation of abnormal pouches—diverticula—that can...
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Thiamine deficiency (redirect from Gastrointestinal beriberi)
in patients with impaired nutrition from other causes, such as gastrointestinal disease, those with HIV/AIDS, and with the injudicious administration of...
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Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is gastrointestinal bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract, commonly defined as bleeding arising from the...
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Retrieved 11 June 2019. W. Allan Walker (2004-07-01). Pediatric gastrointestinal disease: pathophysiology, diagnosis, management. PMPH-USA. pp. 2120–....
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Enteritis (category Intestinal infectious diseases)
like coeliac disease. Symptoms include abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhoea, dehydration, and fever. Related diseases of the gastrointestinal system (including...
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Functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID), also known as disorders of gut–brain interaction, include a number of separate idiopathic disorders which...
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Common variable immunodeficiency (category Genetic diseases and disorders)
susceptibility to pathogens, chronic lung disease, as well as inflammation and infection of the gastrointestinal tract. CVID affects males and females equally...
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Anthrax (redirect from Gastrointestinal anthrax)
spreading the disease, the body was transported to UCLA in a sealed plastic body bag within a sealed metal container for autopsy. Gastrointestinal anthrax is...
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Aphthous stomatitis (redirect from Sutton's disease)
disease, but also inflammatory bowel disease such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. The link between gastrointestinal disorders and aphthous stomatitis...
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TNF inhibitor (section Gastrointestinal disease)
such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, hidradenitis suppurativa and refractory asthma, so TNF inhibitors...
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Gluten (section Celiac disease)
CD is not only a gastrointestinal disease, because it may involve several organs and cause an extensive variety of non-gastrointestinal symptoms, and most...
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Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease is a textbook on hepatology and gastroenterology for medical students, internists, and surgeons...
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Procalcitonin (section Gastrointestinal disease)
multiple orders of magnitude with higher values correlating with more severe disease. However, the high procalcitonin levels produced during infections are...
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gastrointestinal series, also called a barium swallow, barium study, or barium meal, is a series of radiographs used to examine the gastrointestinal tract...
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anti-acid medication. However, peptic ulcer disease symptoms may be different for everyone. Gastrointestinal bleeding is the most common complication. Sudden...
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Bile acid malabsorption (category Gastrointestinal tract disorders)
salt malabsorption. It can result from malabsorption secondary to gastrointestinal disease, or be a primary disorder, associated with excessive bile acid...
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of the disease and reduce the possibility of congenital transmission. Elimination of T. cruzi does not cure the cardiac and gastrointestinal damage caused...
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Gluten-free diet (section Coeliac disease)
Gluten may cause both gastrointestinal and systemic symptoms for those with gluten-related disorders, including coeliac disease (CD), non-coeliac gluten...
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Dog health (section Gastrointestinal diseases)
many different aspects, including disease processes, genetics, and nutritional health, for example. Infectious diseases that affect dogs are important not...
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