Disease relevance of Gastroscopes

• Esophageal varices were injected with 5% sodium morrhuate and a solution containing thrombin, concentrated dextrose, and cephalothin sodium using the flexible gastroscope with balloon cuff modification [1].

High impact information on Gastroscopes

• Disinfecting gastroscopes with 2% glutaraldehyde or peracetic acids for 20 minutes may be insufficient to prevent transmission of T. whipplei on the instruments or stop false-positive results on polymerase chain reaction [2].
• Using a new prototype (Olympus XPGIF 5.2/ N30) gastroscope, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was safely performed under sedation on 99 infants (weights 0.9 to 10.1 kg) [3].
• Sedation had to be used (intravenous diazepam) in 32 patients due to excessive anxiety and an inability to introduce the gastroscope and in three children under 10 years (1.6%) [4].
• Yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) laser therapy was performed through a gastroscope on 123 patients from 1980 to 1986 [5].
• If a narrow diameter gastroscope was employed, only meperidine was associated with persistent depression of the Pao2 [6].

Associations of Gastroscopes with chemical compounds

• In a study with five volunteers piretanide was instilled into the stomach via a gastroscope [7].

Gene context of Gastroscopes

• Twenty-three consecutive patients with actively bleeding esophageal varices had EVL with a flexible gastroscope [8].
• Following local anesthesia to the nose, through-the-nose (TTN) passage of a paediatric gastroscope was successful and well tolerated in 82 of 92 patients on whom it was attempted in order to place nasogastric feeding tubes [9].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Gastroscopes

• METHOD: Reused glutaraldehyde solutions for disinfecting bronchoscopes, gastroscopes and colonoscopes were tested for the concentration of glutaraldehyde with a GTS thrice weekly for the first week and then every working day up to 56 days [10].

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