Introduction: Functional bowel disorders are functional gastrointestinal disorders affecting the middle or lower gastrointestinal tract. They occur worldwide and manifest with features of abdominal pain, bloating, distention, and/or bowel habit abnormalities such as diarrhea, con...
Background: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a functional gastrointestinal disorder with considerable morbidity and profound negative impact on quality of life. It has been observed that patients with psychological disturbances relate more frequently with the symptoms of IBS, an...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2018/39235
Malignancies of the small bowel are a rare occurrence with a worldwide incidence of less than 1.0 per 100,000 populations. Only 2% of the total annual incidence of digestive cancers occurs in the small intestine as compared to approximately 57% in the large intestine. This is in...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2017/39299
Background: Autoimmune liver diseases (autoimmune hepatitis, primary biliary cholangitis, primary sclerosing cholangitis) are conventionally considered to be very rare among native black Africans where chronic hepatitis B virus infection is the commonest cause of chronic liver di...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36681
Background: Diseases of the digestive system vary in type and distribution worldwide. There is presently no comprehensive audit of the types of digestive diseases presenting at any particular tertiary health facility in Nigeria. We present an audit of the digestive diseases prese...
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Research Article10.9734/JAMMR/2017/36761
Background: It has been over a century since the Widal test was developed for diagnosing typhoid fever. Yet, the test remains the major means of diagnosing the disease in many of the developing countries where it remains endemic. This review appraises the Widal test in regard to...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2017/36691
Accidental ingestion of denture resulting in esophageal impaction is fairly reported in the literature. It is, however, uncommon to find such impaction lasting more than a few days without the development of serious complications. We present a 38-year-old man with denture impacti...
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Research Article10.9734/IJMPCR/2017/35978
Aim: Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are common in the general population, compromise quality of life and may result in increased health care costs for the society. We observed that many of the studies previously published focused on middle aged and elderly men and women. Our...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2016/26472