Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica最新文献

{"title":"A place for probiotics and prebiotics in the studies on human microbiota and inflammatory bowel diseases.","authors":"Sara Lo Pumo","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02620-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02620-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37830015","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}

{"title":"An unexpected case of bifid esophagus.","authors":"Alberto Caranti, Mauro Budini, Ilaria Visentini, Andrea Cimatti","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02644-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02644-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"85-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37830016","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}

{"title":"Effectiveness of a nutraceutical supplement containing highly standardized perilla and ginger extracts in patients with functional dyspepsia.","authors":"Francesco Di Pierro, Maurizio Giovannone, Mariella Saponara, Leandro Ivaldi","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02650-3","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02650-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In Western countries functional dyspepsia (FD) has a prevalence of 10-20% among adults and although many drugs are currently available for use within clinical practice, FD remains an important challenge for physicians. Recently, food supplements that are ginger-based, along with other botanicals, have been proposed to be a possible natural alternative to pharmaceutical drugs to empirically counteract the symptoms of FD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We have therefore retrospectively analyzed the efficacy and safety profiles of a nutraceutical containing, in addition to a highly standardized ginger root extract, a multi-fractionated botanical obtained from Perilla frutescens leaf containing an innovative bouquet of compounds, including hydrophilic polyphenols and the lipophilic terpenoid perilla ketone.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results of our single-group study, obtained from patients with a diagnosis of FD who were treated with the perilla/ginger nutraceutical, demonstrated a good efficacy profile, with a significant reduction observed in nearly all evaluated symptoms (epigastric pain, heartburn, gastric reflux, nausea, borborygmi, early satiety, diarrhea/constipation) starting from the first week of treatment that was further improved after 2 weeks. The treatment was well tolerated with very mild side effects (flatulence, meteorism, gastric burning, difficulty in falling asleep) lasting 3-4 days, which disappeared without stopping the treatment.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Despite all the limitations of our pragmatic study, we believe that the perilla and ginger supplement we have used can be considered a valid tool for an empirical approach to treating patients with FD, especially when a non-conventional drug treatment is preferable to the patient and considered suitable by the physician.</p>","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37830014","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}

{"title":"Differential diagnosis of solid pancreatic masses.","authors":"Julio Iglesias-Garcia,&nbsp;Daniel de la Iglesia-Garcia,&nbsp;José M Olmos-Martinez,&nbsp;José Lariño-Noia,&nbsp;J Enrique Dominguez-Muñoz","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02646-X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02646-X","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Solid pancreatic lesions include mainly adenocarcinoma, neuroendocrine tumors pancreatic cystic neoplasms with solid component, solid pseudopapillary tumor, pancreatoblastoma, pancreatic lymphoma, and pancreatic metastasis. The most frequent pancreatic lesion is the adenocarcinoma, representing between 70% and 95% of all solid pancreatic neoplasm. The diagnosis of these lesions can be a challenge and currently, there are different imaging techniques such as CT scan, EUS and MRI with high sensitivity and specificity. The most widely used technique for the initial evaluation is the CT scan with a sensitivity between 76% and 92% for the diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The EUS has a sensitivity for the detection of pancreatic lesions of around 98% and is accepted to be the most sensitive technique for the detection of small pancreatic tumors (<2 cm). The MRI, with a very high soft-tissue contrast resolution, provides an accuracy in the detection and staging of adenocarcinoma of 90-100%. A multimodality approach is usually necessary in patients with clinical suspicion of pancreatic lesion. The EUS is required for the local evaluation of the relation of the lesion with vessels and for tissue acquisition and the CT scan and/or MRI is usually required for the local and distance staging in case of pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of solid pancreatic lesions and the role of the different imaging techniques in their evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"70-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37590041","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}

{"title":"Urotensin II receptor expression in patients with ulcerative colitis: a pilot study.","authors":"Antonietta G Gravina,&nbsp;Marcello Dallio,&nbsp;Concetta Tuccillo,&nbsp;Marco Martorano,&nbsp;Ludovico Abenavoli,&nbsp;Francesco Luzza,&nbsp;Paola Stiuso,&nbsp;Stefania Lama,&nbsp;Paolo Grieco,&nbsp;Francesco Merlino,&nbsp;Michele Caraglia,&nbsp;Carmelina Loguercio,&nbsp;Alessandro Federico","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02602-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02602-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Urotensin II (U-II) is a vasoactive peptide that interacts with a specific receptor named UTR. Recently, our group has demonstrated increased UTR expression in both human colon adenocarcinoma cell lines and adenomatous polyps, as well as in colon carcinoma samples if compared to healthy colon samples of the same patients. We also showed that an UTR agonist induced an increase in colon adenocarcinoma cell growth in vitro, whereas the UTR block with a specific antagonist caused an inhibition of their growth and an inhibition of about 50% of both motility and cell invasion. Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) associated with an increased baseline risk for colon cancer compared with the general population, and this risk is mostly attributed to chronic inflammation and immune dysregulation. This risk increases along with the duration of the disease, as demonstrated by many studies. There are no UTR expression data related to UC, and we therefore evaluated UTR expression in ill colon biopsies and in healthy colon ones of patients with UC and colon biopsies of healthy patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We enrolled, prior to informed consent, 11 patients (5 males and 6 females, age range 29-75 years, median age 52 years) with first UC diagnosis compared to 11 healthy controls (6 males and 5 females, age range 30-78 years, median age 55 years). We have therefore sampled inflammatory and healthy tissue in UC patients. We have also taken colic tissue samples in healthy subjects. Evaluation of receptor expression was performed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), Western Blot analysis. The ANOVA Test (P<0.05) was used for statistical analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We found: 1) increased expression of UTR in 11/11 UC patients with ill mucosa biopsies compared to healthy controls in RT-PCR and in Western Blot analysis; 2) increased UTR expression in 11/11 UC patients with ill colon biopsies compared to the results obtained from healthy colon biopsies of the same patients both in RT-PCR and in Western Blot analysis; 3) increased UTR expression in 9/11 UC patients healthy colon biopsy specimens compared to healthy controls.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>UTR could be considered as an inflammatory UC disease marker because its expression is greater in the mucosa of ill colon than in the healthy colon of the same patients and compared to healthy controls.</p>","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"23-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37407248","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}

{"title":"Is it time to recommend water load test before Nissen fundoplication?","authors":"Amir Mari,&nbsp;Mahmud Mahamid,&nbsp;Tawfik Khoury","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02678-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02678-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"8-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37830012","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}

{"title":"Role of a berberine-based nutritional supplement in reducing diarrhea in subjects with functional gastrointestinal disorders.","authors":"Francesco Di Pierro,&nbsp;Alexander Bertuccioli,&nbsp;Rosanna Giuberti,&nbsp;Mariella Saponara,&nbsp;Leandro Ivaldi","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02649-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02649-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Berberine, an alkaloid obtained by extraction from Berberis spp., is a botanical that is widely used in the nutraceutical sector to control cholesterol and blood glucose levels. It is also a molecule that is effective in limiting diarrhea due to its multi-factorial properties, including its antimicrobial, gut eubiotic and antisecretive actions, and its ability to slow gut motility. In our routine clinical practice, we have suggested the use of a berberine-based nutraceutical, formulated with melatonin and depolymerized guar gum, to patients affected by functional diarrhea (FD) or by diarrhea-type irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We have therefore retrospectively analyzed the clinical effect of such a nutritional supplement in these two sub-groups of patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Despite the highly pragmatic scheme of our study, our findings strongly confirm the antidiarrheal properties of berberine and recommend its use in some gut functional diseases characterized by frequent evacuation of mushy and/or watery stools. In fact, even after 30 days of treatment, the berberine-based nutritional supplement significantly reduces diarrheal events by 50-70%. After 90 days, this reduction improves to between 70 and 80%, with a reduction of more than 60% in the number of evacuations per week and with more than 50% of treated subjects demonstrating normalized, according to self-reported Bristol Stool Scale categorization, stool consistency. The product is well tolerated and adherence to the proposed therapy is good. Common side effects of the product are flatulence and meteorism, likely due to the \"acarbose-like\" berberine effects on gut α-glucosidase.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Patients, especially those preferring \"natural\" therapy, can be successfully treated, when affected by a gut functional disease characterized by diarrhea, by berberine-based products.</p>","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"29-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37830013","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}

{"title":"Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and primary care physicians.","authors":"Ludovico Abenavoli,&nbsp;Anna C Procopio,&nbsp;Milica Medić-Stojanoska,&nbsp;Francesco Luzza","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02666-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02666-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37830010","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}

{"title":"Endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue sampling of pancreatic lesions.","authors":"Antonio Facciorusso","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02614-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.20.02614-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Important advancements in endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue sampling techniques and development of new needle designs have improved the diagnostic yield of pancreatic lesions. This innovation in endoscopic ultrasound has also opened the door for early diagnosis and precision therapy in the management of cancer patients. Endoscopic ultrasound fine needle biopsy is an invaluable tool and newer biopsy designs will probably play a pivotal role in the management of pancreatic lesions in the next future. Aim of the current review was to provide an overview on the available techniques and devices for the endoscopic ultrasound-guided sampling of pancreatic solid and cystic lesions.</p>","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"41-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37729211","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}

{"title":"Why candidates for liver transplantation should be considered as frail patients.","authors":"M. Moscara, G. Mattei, S. Ferrari, G. Galeazzi","doi":"10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02627-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23736/S1121-421X.19.02627-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74201,"journal":{"name":"Minerva gastroenterologica e dietologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88922702","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}