Rasha I Salama, Salwa Tawfik, Mohamed H Emara, Abeer H Abdelkader
{"title":"Impact of cefixime and probiotics on functional abdominal bloating: a pilot study.","authors":"Rasha I Salama, Salwa Tawfik, Mohamed H Emara, Abeer H Abdelkader","doi":"10.5114/pg.2024.142141","DOIUrl":"10.5114/pg.2024.142141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Abdominal bloating is a prevalent condition that affects up to 30% of the population.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>Investigate the impact of cefixime and probiotics on the bloating sensation among patients with functional abdominal bloating (FAB).</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Out of 763 patients with bloating, 122 patients were diagnosed with FAB. Group I (<i>n</i> = 40) were treated with a combination of non-activated herbal charcoal and silicone dioxide with dimethylpolysiloxane (conventional treatment group); group II (<i>n</i> = 41) were treated by the same lines as in group I with the addition of cefixime 400 mg once daily for 6 days; and group III (<i>n</i> = 41) were treated by the same lines given to group I with the addition of a probiotic formulation harbouring the probiotic strain <i>Lactobacillus helveticus candisis</i> for 2 weeks. All patients were evaluated by history taking, clinical examination, laboratory assessment, relevant imaging, and symptom questionnaire before and by the end of treatment.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of FAB was 15.9% (122/763). The majority were females (58.1%). Patients treated with probiotics and cefixime reported significant improvement in the sense of bloating and the visible abdominal distension in comparison to conventional treatment (<i>p</i> = 0.008 and < 0.001, respectively). Abdominal pain, belching, bowel habit change, and nausea improved and were comparable among the 3 groups by the end of treatment. No adverse events related to the used medications were observed.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Cefixime and probiotics exert significant improvement in the subjective sensation of bloating and objective abdominal distension among patients with FAB in comparison to conventional anti-flatulence therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"16 4","pages":"408-415"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726219/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142984590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Direct peroral cholangioscopy combined with argon plasma and radio-frequency ablation in restoring the patency of a self-expandable metal stent.","authors":"Tomasz Klimczak, Jacek Śmigielski","doi":"10.5114/pg.2024.143165","DOIUrl":"10.5114/pg.2024.143165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"16 4","pages":"460-462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11726218/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142984649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resistance to death pathway induction as a potential targeted therapy in CRISPR/Cas-9 knock-out colorectal cancer cell lines.","authors":"Malgorzata Adamiec-Organisciok, Magdalena Wegrzyn, Lukasz Cienciala, Ngoni Magate, Magdalena Skonieczna, Joanna Nackiewicz","doi":"10.5114/pg.2024.134872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2024.134872","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regulated cell death is a fundamental biological process that plays a crucial role in maintaining tissue homeostasis and eliminating damaged or unnecessary cells. Ferroptosis is an iron-dependent process, characterized by the accumulation of oxidized and damaged lipids, which leads to programmed cell death. Among the ferroptotic pathway genes regulating this process, GPX4, TFRC, ACSL4, FSP1, SLC7A11, and PROM2 could be considered. There are many well-known ferroptotic pathway regulators, which are discussed in this compact review. Cells with tissues of different origin display sensitive or resistant phenotypes to such regulators. In some cases, unexpected changes during cell treatment occurred, suggesting the possibility of regulating the death pathway. We assumed that possible changing of ferro-sensitivity to ferro-resistance in cells, especially in colorectal cancer cell lines, is responded for induced chemoresistance. Using novel techniques, such as CRISPR/Cas-9 genome editing, an induced phenotype \"switching\" is possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"19 2","pages":"112-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11200076/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141470340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of ASF1B as a prognostic marker for liver cancer by meta-analysis and its immune value revealed by a comprehensive pan-cancer analysis of 33 human cancersrevealed by a comprehensive pan-cancer analysis of 33 human cancers","authors":"Yiyang Chen, Wanbang Zhou, Yiju Gong, Xi Ou","doi":"10.5114/pg.2023.124423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2023.124423","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction As one of the most common malignant tumours, liver cancer is difficult to detect in the early stage, with strong metastasis and poor prognosis. Anti-silencing function protein 1 was originally discovered in yeast as a histone H3-H4 chaperone, and studies have shown that ASF1B may be a target for inhibiting the growth of hepatocellular carcinoma cells. Aim To evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic significance of ASF1B expression in human LIHC on the basis of TCGA data. Material and methods A meta-analysis revealed that high ASF1B expression was strongly associated with better overall survival. A comprehensive pan-cancer analysis of 33 human cancers revealed the immunotherapeutic value of ASF1B. Results In this study, we observed a significant upregulation of ASF1B expression in LIHC samples compared to non-cancer samples. Clinical analysis showed that high expression of ASF1B was associated with age, tumour status, and clinical stage. Survival analysis showed that patients with high ASF1B expression had worse overall survival and progression-free survival than patients with low ASF1B expression. The AUCs of the 1-year, 3-year, and 5-year survival-related ROC curves were 0.672, 0.590, and 0.591, respectively. Conclusions Our study shows that ASF1B may provide new ideas for the diagnosis and prognosis of liver cancer patients, as well as providing a new direction for the application of ASF1B in tumour immunotherapy.","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"6 1","pages":"249 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70475058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Héctor Adrián Díaz Hernández, José Elihú Cuevas Castillejos, Godolfino Miranda Zazueta, Adriana Fabiola Romano Munive, Francisco Valdovinos Andraca
{"title":"Characteristics of the endoscopic procedures performed in a hybrid tertiary-level hospital during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Héctor Adrián Díaz Hernández, José Elihú Cuevas Castillejos, Godolfino Miranda Zazueta, Adriana Fabiola Romano Munive, Francisco Valdovinos Andraca","doi":"10.5114/pg.2022.118136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2022.118136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The COVID-19 pandemic caused many changes in gastrointestinal endoscopy units.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To describe the changes that occurred in a gastrointestinal endoscopy unit of a hybrid hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>We performed a retrospective study of endoscopies performed in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We collected and described the data of interest to the study, which is presented with numbers and percentages or measures of central tendency and dispersion as appropriate. Fisher's exact test or the χ<sup>2</sup> test were used as appropriate.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 507 procedures were performed. There was a 92.5% reduction in the performance of endoscopic procedures. In all, 77 (15%) procedures were performed on patients with COVID-19. The most frequent procedures were esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), colonoscopy, and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). The main indications were gastrointestinal bleeding, placement of enteral accesses, and alterations in the biliary and pancreatic ducts. Of these, 37 (48%) were therapeutic. Patients with COVID-19 were more susceptible to the development of complications.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>During the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of endoscopic procedures performed decreased significantly. The procedures most often required were EGD, colonoscopy, and ERCP, mainly indicated by gastrointestinal bleeding, placement of enteral accesses, and alterations of the bile and pancreatic ducts.</p>","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"18 2","pages":"198-203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/dd/09/PG-18-47490.PMC10395057.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9935790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of deep learning in diagnosing colorectal cancer.","authors":"Dimitrios Bousis, Georgios-Ioannis Verras, Konstantinos Bouchagier, Andreas Antzoulas, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Anastasia Katinioti, Dimitrios Kehagias, Charalampos Kaplanis, Konstantinos Kotis, Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos, Francesk Mulita","doi":"10.5114/pg.2023.129494","DOIUrl":"10.5114/pg.2023.129494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Colon cancer is a major public health issue, affecting a growing number of individuals worldwide. Proper and early diagnosis of colon cancer is the necessary first step toward effective treatment and/or prevention of future disease relapse. Artificial intelligence and its subtypes, deep learning in particular, tend nowadays to have an expanding role in all fields of medicine, and diagnosing colon cancer is no exception. This report aims to summarize the entire application spectrum of deep learning in all diagnostic tests regarding colon cancer, from endoscopy and histologic examination to medical imaging and screening serologic tests.</p>","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":"266-273"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10626379/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70475065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appleby technique: review of the state of the art","authors":"D. Coco, S. Leanza","doi":"10.5114/pg.2023.129502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2023.129502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70475368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Edyta Szymanska, Sylwia Szymanska, Maciej Dadalski, Jaroslaw Kierkus
{"title":"Biological markers of disease activity in inflammatory bowel diseases.","authors":"Edyta Szymanska, Sylwia Szymanska, Maciej Dadalski, Jaroslaw Kierkus","doi":"10.5114/pg.2023.129412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2023.129412","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic intestinal conditions of multifactorial aetiology including genetic susceptibility, immunological impairment, dysbiosis, and environmental factors. The diagnosis is based on both clinical and endoscopic features, wherein histopathological evaluation remains a gold diagnostic standard. However, fast, reliable, and non-invasive biological markers have been used for years for diagnosis as well as for disease activity monitoring. Currently, commonly used faecal calprotectin is the only biomarker approved and recommended by the European Crohn's and Colitis Organization (ECCO). Nonetheless, other biological markers discriminating between functional and organic bowel conditions have been widely studied. Therefore, the aim of this manuscript was to review new potential biomarkers of inflammation in IBD. The aim of this study was to review currently available biomarkers of intestinal inflammation and increased gut permeability in IBD.</p>","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"18 2","pages":"141-147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/dd/5e/PG-18-51066.PMC10395055.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9929721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Type B aortic dissection atypically presenting as chronic abdominal pain.","authors":"Rafał Filip, Wiesław Guz","doi":"10.5114/pg.2023.129417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2023.129417","url":null,"abstract":"1 Department of Gastroenterology with IBD Unit, St. Jadwiga Queen Hospital No. 2 affiliated to the Medical College, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland 2Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland 3Department of Electroradiology, Medical College, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland 4Department of Radiology, St. Jadwiga Queen Hospital No. 2, Rzeszow, Poland","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"18 2","pages":"221-223"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/52/c1/PG-18-51071.PMC10395067.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9941882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Splenic artery embolization for the treatment of pancreatic portal hypertension complicated by gastric variceal haemorrhage.","authors":"Min Ai, DaZhi Gao, GuangMing Lu, Jian Xu","doi":"10.5114/pg.2022.121829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5114/pg.2022.121829","url":null,"abstract":"Pancreatic sinistral portal hypertension (PSPH) is caused by splenic venous outflow tract obstruction, and it accounts for 5% of all cases of portal hypertension [1–3]. When the splenic vein is blocked, the splenic collateral circulation opens, including the short gastric veins (SGVs) and left gastroepiploic vein (LGEV) as the 2 main pathways. The SGVs return to the portal vein through the gastric coronary vein and the LGEV flows through the right gastroepiploic vein to the superior mesenteric vein. Continuous high pressure in the SGVs increases pressure in the gastric mucosal veins, which changes venous structure and results in mucosal varices in the gastric fundus [4, 5]. Gastric variceal bleeding (GVB) is a life-threatening complication of PSPH that requires rapid intervention [6]. Traditional splenectomy is considered the preferred treatment for this condition; however, severe inflammation, adhesions","PeriodicalId":20719,"journal":{"name":"Przegla̜d Gastroenterologiczny","volume":"18 1","pages":"125-131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/cd/05/PG-18-48411.PMC10050974.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9610066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}