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B V Tantry

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PubMed1993

Role of anxiety and personality in non-ulcer dyspepsia: a comparative study with duodenal ulcer.

BACKGROUND: Though emotional factors are known to influence gut functions, studies evaluating the role of anxiety and personality in non-ulcer dyspepsia (NUD) are few and have not yielded consistent results. AIMS: To find out whether anxiety and abnormal personality pattern are specifically associated with NUD. METHODS: 33 patients with NUD and 30 patients with duodenal ulcer, who were randomly selected from among those attending a gastroenterology out-patient clinic, were administered a) the Eyesenck Personality Inventory, to measure neuroticism and extroversion; and b) a short self-rating scale for anxiety, to measure state and trait anxiety. RESULTS: There were no significant differences between the two groups in state anxiety, neuroticism and extroversion. Trait anxiety, however, was significantly higher in the NUD group (p = 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Though the difference in trait anxiety score between the two groups attained significance, this finding needs further support to indicate a causal role for anxiety in NUD. There is need for further studies about the role of anxiety in various subgroups of NUD.

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PubMed1989

Poor response to long-term albendazole therapy of hydatid liver cysts.

Seven patients with uncomplicated hepatic hydatid cysts (Echinococcus granulosus) were treated with albendazole 10 mg/kg/day for 2-6 months (mean 4 months). Serial sonographic evaluation showed reduction in cyst size in only 1 patient (the anteroposterior diameter decreased from 16.5 cm to 4.9 cm). Therapy in this patient was discontinued after 4 months due to development of jaundice. Albendazole appears to have a limited role in the treatment of hydatid disease of the liver.

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PubMed1989

Medical myotomy for achalasia cardia. Long term results.

Pneumatic dilatation was effective in relieving dysphagia in 16/17 subjects with achalasia cardia. It was also effective and safe in those with sigmoid oesophagus, although dilatation persisted in them. Recurrences were noted in one quarter of cases which were managed satisfactorily with subsequent dilatations. There were no complications. Pneumatic dilatation appears very useful in the management of achalasia cardia.

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PubMed1989

Post sclerotherapy esophageal ulcers: a prospective analysis of their behaviour.

The reported incidence of post sclerotherapy esophageal ulcers has shown marked variation, possibly due to lack of uniform criteria for their diagnosis. Using fixed criteria (size greater than or equal to 5 mm, duration greater than or equal to 2 weeks), we prospectively studied 82 patients with portal hypertension, who underwent four or more sessions of endoscopic sclerotherapy (EST), for the occurrence and behaviour of these ulcers. Post sclerotherapy ulcers occurred after 43 (9.2%) of 465 EST sessions in 30 (36.6%) of 82 patients. Ulcers were significantly associated with two complications: rebleed during the course of sclerotherapy (33% of ulcers bled compared to 3% from variceal rupture; p less than 0.001) and esophageal stricture formation (66.7% of strictures occurred in patients who had ulcers; p less than 0.05). Ulcers occurred more frequently in patients with poor liver function (61.5% in Child's C grade compared with 31.9% in Child's A or B grades; p less than 0.05) and after injection into larger varices (83.7% in varices grades 3 and 4, 16.3% in lower grades; p less than 0.005). Severe persistent chest pain (p less than 0.001) and pyrexia (p less than 0.01) after sclerotherapy were clinical pointers of ulcerogenesis.

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PubMed1984

Evaluation of leukocyte adherence inhibition (LAI) test in primary and secondary hepatic malignancies.

Leukocyte adherence inhibition (LAI) has been demonstrated to be a simple, rapid, and reliable technique in the diagnosis of various malignancies including hepatocellular carcinoma. The LAI test was carried out employing modified tube LAI technique in patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and secondary carcinomas of liver. Positive LAI response to HCC antigen was obtained in all six (100%) cases of hepatocellular carcinoma tested. None of the control cases, which included 8 healthy subjects and 16 cases of benign liver diseases, gave positive LAI response. Two out of 19 cases of secondary carcinoma gave a positive LAI reaction to HCC antigen. In secondary carcinomas, 19 out of 21 cases (90.48%) gave positive LAI reaction to secondary adenocarcinoma antigen. There were two false positives in controls (1 each of cirrhosis and amebic liver abscess), and 1 out of 8 cases of HCC also gave positive response to secondary carcinoma antigen. Thus, LAI test was found to be useful in the diagnosis of hepatic malignancies.

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