ALLMedicine™ Achlorhydria Center

Mar 9th, 2023 - Vasoactive intestinal peptide-secreting tumors (VIPomas) are extremely rare functional pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (p-NENs) characterized by watery diarrhea, hypokalemia, and achlorhydria. Here, we report the case of a 51-year-old female p...

Nov 25th, 2022 - Chronic atrophic gastritis (CAG) alone is a precancerous condition for gastric cancer. Achlorhydria plays an important role in the formation of a class I carcinogen, acetaldehyde. L-cysteine has been claimed to bind acetaldehyde covalently. Sympto...

Sep 28th, 2022 - Autoimmune gastritis is characterized by atrophy of acid secreting parietal cells resulting in achlorhydria. Upper gastrointestinal symptoms are common in autoimmune gastritis and frequently result in prescriptions for acid suppressant medications...

Jul 6th, 2022 - Development and optimization of orally administered drug products often require bio-predictive tools to help with informing formulation and manufacturing decisions. Reliable bio-predictive dissolution toolkits not only allow rational development o...

Jun 29th, 2022 - We applied in vitro models of gastrointestinal (GI) digestion simulating the conditions of the GI tract of healthy adults and elderly individuals with achlorhydria (EA) to investigate differences in the digestibility of meat (chicken, beef and por...

Mar 10th, 2022 - Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is defined as a condition in which an abnormally high amount of coliform bacteria is present in the small bowel and results in premature anaerobic fermentation of carbohydrates before reaching the colon...

Jul 3rd, 2018 - Iron deficiency may result from inadequate dietary intake, achlorhydria or excessive ingestion of proton pump inhibitors, parasitic infestations, chronic infections and repeated pregnancies. Iron supplementation of antenatal patients is a basic te...

Oct 22nd, 2013 - Cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency is highly prevalent in the US and worldwide. Deficiency is most common in the elderly, with an average prevalence ≈25% over age 60 y. About 40% of older persons with low serum cobalamin have food cobalamin malabs...

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Jul 5th, 2017 - IN THIS ARTICLE Diagnostic criteria Pharmacologic management Patient education A more severe variant of peptic ulcer disease, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome (ZES) is a rare, chronic, and potentially life-threatening ulcerative disorder. Because the sy.

Jun 7th, 2010 - Hello. I am Dr. David Johnson, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School of Norfolk, Virginia. New news: The FDA has mandated that proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) will now have product labeling that says ...

Patients with multinodular goiter required a thyroxine dosage increase of 22%–34% if they had impaired secretion of stomach acids, results from a large controlled study demonstrated. The finding suggests that “normal gastric acid secretion is impo.

Patients with multinodular goiter required a thyroxine dosage increase of 22%–34% if they had impaired secretion of stomach acids, results from a large controlled study demonstrated. The finding suggests that “normal gastric acid secretion is impo.