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In Europe, the technical document is called the "summary of product characteristics" (SmPC), and the document for end-users is called the "patient information leaflet" (PIL) or "package leaflet". [3] Similar documents attached to the outside of a package are sometimes called outserts. [citation needed]
Gastroenteritis is the main reason for 3.7 million visits to physicians a year in the United States [1] and 3 million visits in France. [81] In the United States gastroenteritis as a whole is believed to result in costs of US$23 billion per year, [82] with rotavirus alone resulting in estimated costs of US$1 billion a year. [1]
Inflammation of the stomach by infection from any cause is called gastritis, and when including other parts of the gastrointestinal tract called gastroenteritis. When gastritis persists in a chronic state, it is associated with several diseases, including atrophic gastritis, pyloric stenosis, and gastric cancer.
The main symptom of gastroenteritis is diarrhea. Other symptoms may include: [citation needed] Abdominal pain or cramping; Nausea; Vomiting; Low grade fever; Because of the symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, people who have gastroenteritis can become dehydrated quickly.
Crohn's disease – also known as regional enteritis, it can occur along any surface of the gastrointestinal tract. The most common location for Crohn's disease to manifest, with or without the involvement of the colon or other parts of the GI tract, is in the terminal ileum (the final segment of the small intestine). [5]
Dysentery (UK: / ˈ d ɪ s ən t ər i / DISS-ən-tər-ee, [7] US: / ˈ d ɪ s ən t ɛr i / DISS-ən-terr-ee), [8] historically known as the bloody flux, [9] is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea. [1] [10] Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. [2] [6] [11] Complications ...
After the patient is sedated, the physician will pass the scope through the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and into the duodenum to locate the opening where the ducts drain into the small intestine. The physician can then inject dye into these ducts and take X-rays which show a real time view, via fluoroscopy , allowing the physician to locate and ...
Sapovirus is a genetically diverse genus of single-stranded positive-sense RNA, non-enveloped viruses within the family Caliciviridae. [1] [2] Together with norovirus, sapoviruses are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis (commonly called the "stomach flu" although it is not related to influenza) in humans and animals.