antidiarrheals/hemorrhage

BACKGROUND Qualea parviflora Mart. is a medicinal species commonly found in the Brazilian Cerrado biome. OBJECTIVE Based on ethnopharmacological data, methanolic extract from Qualea parviflora (QP) bark was evaluated for its antiulcer, analgesic, anti-hemorrhagic, mutagenic and anti-Helicobacter

The 2014 outbreak clearly showed that Ebola viruses (EBOV) remain a substantial threat for public health. The mainstay of management of patients with Ebola disease is isolation of patients and use of strict barrier nursing procedures; the present treatment strategies are mainly symptomatic and

BACKGROUND To compare the functional and surgical outcomes of colonic J-pouch and straight anastomosis in the context that both reconstruction procedures were performed laparoscopically. METHODS The present study was a randomized prospective clinical trial. Patients with lower rectal cancer

A multicentre trial was carried out to find out the safety and efficacy of 15(S)15 methyl PGF2α (Prostin 15M, Upjohn) for induction of menses in early pregnancy (up to 49 days). Two hundred and eighty-four cases were recruited for the study. All patients received two doses of 0.5 mg (2.0 ml) Prostin

The recent Food and Drug Administration's approval of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) vaginal suppositories provides the clinician with a technique for the immediate management of missed abortion and intrauterine fetal death (IUFD). During a 4-year period at our institution, 78 of 80 patients with

Mid-trimester abortion was successfully induced in 70 of 71 patients by administration of vaginal PGE2 suppositories. The one patient who failed to abort with this method was pregnant in the blind horn of a duplex uterus. The mean abortion time for the successful inductions was 11.88 hours.

J.W. is a 68-year-old white female who noted an "anal growth" 1 year prior to admission. She also complained of bleeding from her rectum when she was constipated. She attributed these symptoms to hemorrhoids. She noted increasing pain and more bleeding 1 month prior to admission. Locally applied

Amyloidosis is characterized by the extracellular deposition of an abnormal fibrillar protein, which disrupts tissue structure and function. Amyloid may be localized to a single organ, such as the GI tract, or be systemic where the amyloid type is defined by the respective fibril precursor protein.

BACKGROUND Byrsonima intermedia A. Juss. is popularly known as "murici pequeno" and is native to the Brazilian Cerrado. This species has been used as an antimicrobial, anti-hemorrhagic, anti-diarrheal and anti-inflammatory. Nevertheless, scientific information regarding Byrsonima intermedia is

OBJECTIVE To determine the safety and the efficacy of total pancreatectomy for the curative treatment of pancreatic carcinoma. METHODS Retrospective analysis was performed using 10 patients receiving total pancreatectomy. RESULTS The median duration of the operative procedure was 8.7 hours and the

BACKGROUND Radiation enteritis (RE) is one of the serious complications caused by the radiotherapy and it can occur in any segment of the intestine, including small intestine, colon, and rectum. It can cause a number of serious problems of the intestine, such as chronic ulcers, bleeding, intestinal

A multicentre trial of Prostin 15M in second trimester abortion in 322 patients of whom 115 were primigravidae was conducted during the period of six months. Intramuscular injection of Prostin 15M 250 µg was given two hourly till one centimeter dilatation of the cervix, followed by three hourly

OBJECTIVE To study the feasibility of subtotal colectomy with cecorectal end-side anastomosis for slow transit constipation. METHODS Retrospective analysis was performed on 23 patients with colon slow transit constipation treated by subtotal colectomy with cecorectal end-side anastomosis in our