What ’ s Happening In Your Stomach? – Gastric Alimetry Review
Conclusion
The Gastric Alimetry device is a first-of-a-kind solution, fully fitting all principles of digital health. It is making patients the point of care and it targets a niche area with massive demand. I am eager to see where Body Surface Gastric Mapping develops in the coming years.
The total time requirement of such a test is significant, patients need to dedicate a total of 10.5 hours to it. The discomfort of the prolonged process is tolerable, many gastric diagnostic methods are much more demanding. If you have chronic NVS and would like to find a way to detect its causes, it is well worth the effort.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - December 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers review Gastric alimetry gastric sencor Body Surface Gastric Mapping gut sensor stomach sensor Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 17th 2022
This study investigated whether multimorbidity is associated with incident dementia and whether associations vary by different clusters of disease and genetic risk for dementia. The study used data from the UK Biobank cohort, with baseline data collected between 2006 and 2010 and with up to 15 years of follow-up. Participants included women and men without dementia and aged at least 60 years at baseline. The presence of at least 2 long-term conditions from a preselected list of 42 conditions was used to define multimorbidity.
A total of 206,960 participants (mean age 64.1 years) were included in the final sample, of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Patients Suffering From More Age Related Conditions Exhibit a Greater Risk of Dementia
This study investigated whether multimorbidity is associated with incident dementia and whether associations vary by different clusters of disease and genetic risk for dementia. The study used data from the UK Biobank cohort, with baseline data collected between 2006 and 2010 and with up to 15 years of follow-up. Participants included women and men without dementia and aged at least 60 years at baseline. The presence of at least 2 long-term conditions from a preselected list of 42 conditions was used to define multimorbidity.
A total of 206,960 participants (mean age 64.1 years) were included in the final sample, of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Functional dyspepsia: Causes, treatments, and new directions
Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a common condition, loosely defined by some physicians as a stomach ache without a clear cause. More specifically, it is characterized by the feeling of fullness during or after a meal, or a burning sensation in the mid-upper abdomen, just below the rib cage (not necessarily associated with meals). The symptoms can be severe enough to interfere with finishing meals or participating in regular daily activities.
Those with FD often go through multiple tests like upper endoscopy, CT scan, and gastric emptying study. But despite often-severe symptoms, no clear cause (such as cancer, ulcer disease, ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Vikram Rangan, MD Tags: Digestive Disorders Mind body medicine Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Perils of patient empowerment threaten to become a disease by itself !
Professional medical practice demands to put always the patient’s interest first. Unfortunately, current practicing methods threaten doctors to yield to patient’s whims & wishes which are influenced by significant non-academic forces. The principle of Informed consent is gradually losing its true meaning. Who is informing what ? and to whom? is becoming a hazy conundrum in complex two-way confabulation based on severely battered evidence-based medicine.
Some of the conversations not heard in silent corridors of big hospitals
Why did you stent his LAD ? , He had triple vessel disease Is’int CABG Ide...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 5, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 55-year-old man with mild nausea and dyspepsia
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians. A 55-year-old man is evaluated in the emergency department for a 2-day history of mild nausea and dyspepsia that is worse with fasting and improved with eating. He has also had a 24-hour history of frequent black stools and fatigue. He […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 12, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Gastroenterology Source Type: blogs
H. pylori, a true stomach “bug”: Who should doctors test and treat?
In 1982, two Australian scientists discovered that a certain bacterium, Helicobacter pylori, was a common cause of persistent stomach inflammation and stomach ulcers. This realization revolutionized ulcer treatment.
While fairly common, this infection usually causes no symptoms, but it can sometimes lead to ulcers in the stomach or the very first part of the small intestine (duodenum), and to certain types of stomach cancer. There is also evidence linking H. pylori infection to other conditions like iron-deficiency anemia and vitamin B12 deficiency. The bacteria are thought to spread through contaminated water, vomit, or f...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wynne Armand, MD Tags: Digestive Disorders Health Infectious diseases Tests and procedures Source Type: blogs
Tips for IM Attendings – Chapter 15 – Teaching the HPI
Students (and interns and residents) provide important insights into their skills and understanding with their oral presentation of the history of present illness (HPI). The history of present illness provides the key to diagnosis in a great majority of patients. A recitation of the history of present illness shows us how the learner has thought through the patient’s problem and their skill at asking the best followup questions.
Several years ago I heard this great description of the process of reporting the HPI. The first paragraph recounts the patient’s story in depth. This includes the patient’s chief comp...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - August 14, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 68-year-old woman with dyspepsia
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 68-year-old woman undergoes upper endoscopy for evaluation of dyspepsia. She has a history of pernicious anemia. She has no other medical problems and her only medication is oral vitamin B12.
On physical examination, vital signs are normal, as is the remainder of the physical examination.
Upper endoscopy discloses a 6-mm polyp in the body of the stomach, which is removed by polypectomy. Other endoscopic findings, including biopsy of the duodenum to evaluate for celiac disease, are normal. Pathologic examinatio...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: mksap Tags: Conditions Cancer GI Source Type: blogs
Functional Dyspepsia via Now@NEJM
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Source: Kidney Notes - November 6, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Proton pump inhibitors and B12 deficiency: What to do now
We can now add vitamin B12 deficiency to the growing list of risks of long term use of the proton pump inhibitors (PPIs).
The New York Times had an article outlining the evidence that prolonged use of both proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) like Prilosec, Protonix, Prevacid and others, as well as the less potent H2 blockers like Zantac and Pepcid, can lead to vitamin B12 deficiency. This is in addition to previously documented concerns about reduced calcium absorption that can lead to osteoporosis, increased risk of pneumonia and increased risk of Clostridium difficile colitis.
It seems simple to ask patients to just stop ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 20, 2013 Category: Family Physicians Tags: Meds GI Medications Source Type: blogs
The Manifestation of Migraine in Wagner's Ring Cycle
German Composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883) wasn't the healthiest guy. He suffered from heart disease, skin disorders, acute infections, minor ailments, and most prominently, recurring headaches – the “main plague” of his life (Göbel et al., 2013). He complained of “Headache, ‘sick headache,’ ‘dyspepsia,’ ‘nervousness,’ melancholy, insomnia, indescribable suffering... Wagner had all of them all of the time” (Gould, 1903).Wagner wrote many letters to his doctor, Dr. Pusinelli, over a 35 year period (Gould, 1903): They begin with, "I have headache," and continue with complaints of bad weather an...
Source: The Neurocritic - December 14, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
Acupuncture Improves Diabetic Gastroparesis
By Diane Fennell
"Needleless" acupuncture can provide relief for people dealing with diabetic gastroparesis, according to new research recently presented at the 2013 Digestive Disease Week meeting in Orlando, Florida. As many as 50% of people with diabetes will develop gastroparesis.
Gastroparesis, most commonly caused by damage to the nerve fibers that control the movements of the stomach, is a condition in which the stomach's ability to move food into the small intestine is reduced. This slow stomach emptying results in a variety of symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, feelings of fullness after eating, a lack of app...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - May 31, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Diane Fennell Source Type: blogs
