Non-Cardiac Chest Pain (Neurogastroenterol Motil 2006;18:408-17) DEFINITION: Chest pains of non-cardiac origin Initial approach is to exclude coronary artery disease (CAD); Cardiac causes other than CAD: Mitral valve prolapse See…
Nausea & Vomiting (Gastroenterology. 2001;120:261-62 & 263-86) DEFINITION: Vomiting: forceful expulsion of gastric contents associated with contraction of abdominal and chest wall musculature Nausea: unpleasant sensation of the imminent need…
Manometry (Esophageal) (Gastroenterology. 2005;128:207-08 & 209-24. Gut 2001;49:145-51) INDICATIONS: Dysphagia not explained by stenosis or inflammation, Chest pain not explained by heart disease, Before fundoplication to exclude achalasia See also…
Injury (Esophagus): Pill Induced DEFINITION: Injury of the esophagus caused by a any of a number of pills/medications EPIDEMIOLOGY: Anyone who can ingest caustic pills is susceptible to pill-induced injury…
Injury (Esophagus): Corrosive DEFINITION: Injury of the esophagus caused by any number of caustic agents EPIDEMIOLOGY: Approximately 26,000 caustic ingestions occur per year; suicidal gesture is most common and most…
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)/Nonerosive Reflux Disease (NERD)/Erosive Esophagitis (EE) (Am J Gastroenterol 2005;100:190-200) DEFINITION: GERD: Pathologic condition of chronic symptoms or histopathologic injury via percolation of gastroduodenal contents into the…
Gastropathy/Chronic Gastritis GASTROPATHY Definition: Any disease or inflammation of the stomach Etiologies: Increased frequency with age; Approximately 60% of adults have histological evidence of nonspecific gastritis In general, chronic dyspepsia…
Gastroparesis & Dumping Syndrome (Gastroenterology 2004;127:1589-91 & 1592-1622. Neurogastroenterol Motil 2006;18:263-83) GASTROPARESIS Definition: Motility disorder of the stomach, often associated with other intestinal motility disorders; Results from impairment of normal…
Gastric Polyps & Thickened Gastric Folds DEFINITIONS: Gastric Polyp: any abnormal growth or epithelial tissue arising from the otherwise smooth surface of the stomach Sessile or pedunculated polyps: Hyperplastic: 70-90%…
Gastric Cancer (N Engl J Med 1995;333:32-41) DEFINITION: Cancer of the stomach; Adenocarcinoma is classified, via Lauren in 1965, into: Intestinal variant: arise from gastric mucus cells that have undergone…
