publication . Article . 2017

PREVALENCE OF SMALL INTESTINE BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS.

Name: PREVALENCE OF SMALL INTESTINE BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH IN PATIENTS WITH GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS.
Keywords: Crescimento bacteriano, Intestino Delgado, Testes respiratórios, Hidrogênio, Metano, Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology, RC799-869, Bacterial growth, Small intestine, Breath tests, Hydrogen, Methane

Maria do Carmo Friche Passos; Carolina Piedade Martins; Caio Henrique Amorim Chaves; Maurício Gustavo Bravim de Castro; Isabel Cristina Gomes;

Open Access English

Published: 23 Feb 2017 Journal: Arquivos de Gastroenterologia (issn: 1678-4219,

Publisher: Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Gastroenterologia (IBEPEGE)

Summary

Abstract

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Small intestine bacterial overgrowth is a heterogeneous syndrome characterized by an increase in the number and/or the presence of atypical microbiota in the small intestine. The symptoms of small intestine bacterial overgrowth are unspecific, encompassing abdominal pain/distension, diarrhea and flatulence. Due to the increased cost and complexity for carrying out the jejunal aspirate, the gold standard for diagnosis of the syndrome, routinely the hydrogen (H 2 ) breath test has been used, utilizing glucose or lactulose as substrate, which is able to determine, in the exhaled air, the H 2 concentration produced from the intestinal bacterial m...

doi: 10.1590/s0004-2803.201700000-06

Subjects

free text keywords: Crescimento bacteriano, Intestino Delgado, Testes respiratórios, Hidrogênio, Metano, Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology, RC799-869, Bacterial growth, Small intestine, Breath tests, Hydrogen, Methane, In patient, Diarrhea, medicine.symptom, medicine, Distension, Flatulence, Gastroenterology, medicine.medical_specialty, Breath test, medicine.diagnostic_test, Lactulose, medicine.drug, business.industry, business, Internal medicine, Abdominal pain, medicine.anatomical_structure

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