Breath Test
In Vitro and In Vivo Studies of a Rapid and Selective Breath Test for Tuberculosis Based upon Mycobacterial CO Dehydrogenase
... Stable-isotope breath tests hold great potential for rapidly diagnosing an infectious disease, monitoring therapy, and determin- ing a bacterial phenotype in a rapid, point-of-care manner that does not require ...
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13C-Urea breath test threshold calculation and evaluation for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection in children
... 15. Bazzoli F, Cecchini L, Corvaglia L, Dall'Antonia M, De Giacomo C, Fossi S, Casali LG, Gullini S, Lazzari R, Leggeri G, Lerro P, Valdambrini V, Mandrioli G, Marani M, Martelli P, Miano A, Nicolini G, Oderda G, Pazzi ...
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Retrospective analysis of a lactose breath test in a gastrointestinal symptomatic population of Northeast Italy: use of (H<sub>2</sub>+2CH<sub>4</sub>) versus H<sub>2</sub> threshold
... variability in the results linked to variability of microbiome in different patients. A second issue is linked to low sen- sitivity, potentially leading to the identification of a lower amount of lactose malabsorption ...
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A simple breath test for tuberculosis using ion mobility : a pilot study
... to breath testing for clinical diseases including ...whole breath rather than end-tidal, and undertaking the study in optimal UK hospital conditions as opposed to a low- or middle-income fi eld ...cheap ...
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A simple breath test for tuberculosis using ion mobility: A pilot study.
... to breath testing for clinical diseases including ...whole breath rather than end-tidal, and undertaking the study in optimal UK hospital conditions as opposed to a low- or middle-income field ...cheap ...
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Medizinischer und gesundheitskonomischer Nutzen der Untersuchung auf Helicobacter pylori-Besiedlung mittels 13C-Harnstoff-Atemtest in der Primrdiagnostik im Vergleich zu invasiven und nichtinvasiven diagnostischen Verfahren Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the 13C-urea breath test as the primary diagnostic investigation for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection compared to invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests
... Diseases of the gastro-intestinal system are very common in Germany. About 28 million patients are treated for gastro-intestinal illnesses per year. In 2007, gastro-intes- tinal diseases accounted for 34.6 million ...
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Delayed Gastric Emptying in Anorexic Adolescents Measured with the 13C Octanoic Acid Breath Test
... tanoic acid breath test 10. The purpose of the present paper is to evaluate gastric emptying of a standardized solid meal in acutely ill anorexic adolescents and to compare these results with previously ...
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Contribution of the 13C-Urea Breath Test to the Detection of Helicobacter pylori Gastritis in Children
... culture was considered as “gold standard,” the sensitivity of serology and ‘3C-urea breath test was 96%; the speci- ficity was 96% and 93%, respectively; the positive pre- dictive value [r] ...
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Development of breath test for pneumoconiosis: a case-control study
... function test as the golden standard for pneumoconiosis, we calculated the discrimination accuracy of the breath ...each test, one group was removed from the set and was used as the test set, ...
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Assessment of insulin resistance by a 13C glucose breath test: a new tool for early diagnosis and follow-up of high-risk patients
... Glucose breath test correlates with serum glucose levels We found a high correlation between GBT parameters and serum glucose ...OGGT test and the PDR (r = ...OGGT test and the PDR (r = ...
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Clinical research on liver reserve function by 13C-phenylalanine breath test in aged patients with chronic liver diseases
... Exclusion criteria were overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE) or a history of overt HE or neurological or mental diseases; alcohol liver disease or history of recent (<4 weeks) alcohol intake; history of recent (<4 ...
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Erythromycin breath test as an assay of glucocorticoid inducible liver cytochromes P 450 Studies in rats and patients
... the breath, correlated well with the concentrations of immunoreactive P-450p protein (r = ...in breath 14CO2 production seemingly unrelated to medications, smoking status or ...average breath ...
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<p>Comparing radiopaque markers and <sup>13</sup>C-labelled breath test in diabetic gastroparesis diagnostics</p>
... Patients and methods: Forty- fi ve patients (30 women, 15 men) with diabetes mellitus types 1 or 2 (40, 5) and symptoms of gastroparesis were examined with ROM and GEBT. All were interviewed, fi lled out symptom ...
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13C-Sucrose Breath Test: Novel Use of a Noninvasive Biomarker of Environmental Gut Health
... The exclusion criteria were (1) inability to fast for ⱖ 4 hours before receiving the sugar probe, (2) inability to tolerate ei- ther oral or nasogastric fluids, (3) need for supplemental oxygen, or (4) diabetes mellitus. ...
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Helicobacter pylori infection in infants and toddlers in South America: concordance between [¹³C] urea breath test and monoclonal H. pylori stool antigen test
... For the stool antigen assay, stool samples, collected by parents or care- takers, were maintained at 4°C if there was a refrigerator in the household or at room temperature for up to 8 h before being sent at 4°C to local ...
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The effect of garlic consumption on Helicobacter pylori treatment using urea breath test: a randomized clinical trial
... pylori infection was eradicated in 87% of patients who had consumed garlic powder, however; this result was not significantly different when compared with control group.. There[r] ...
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Helicobacter pylori Infection in Infants and Toddlers in South America: Concordance between [13C]Urea Breath Test and Monoclonal H pylori Stool Antigen Test
... H elicobacter pylori infection is acquired primarily in early child- hood and is predominantly transmitted within families, in- fected mother and siblings being the most common familial source of the microorganism (1–5). ...
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Key words
... Lactose malabsorption was observed in 37.14% of the children with diagnosed diarrhea− predominant IBS and in 27.85% the of children with functional dyspepsia. Lactose malabsorption was observed statistically more ...
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High prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in Malaysian Parkinson's disease patients
... 30. Lee HS, Gwee KA, Teng LY, et al. Validation of [13C] urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori using a simple gas chromatograph-mass selective detector. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1998;10(7):569–572. ...
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Profile of rifaximin and its potential in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
... breath test. They treated 106 of 150 (71%) IBS patients with a positive breath test using 200 mg of rifaximin four times per day for 14 ...positive breath test reported more ...
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