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Children with cyclic vomiting syndrome: phenotypes, disease burden and mitochondrial DNA analysis
... Because of repeated visits to emergency department during attacks and diagnostic studies to rule out organic causes, there were substantial disease burdens caused by CVS to patients and families. A national study among ...
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Quantitative pedigree analysis and mitochondrial DNA sequence variants in adults with cyclic vomiting syndrome
... CVS: Cyclic vomiting syndrome; mtDNA SNP ’ s: Mitochondrial DNA single-nucleotide polymorphisms; QPA: Quantitative pedigree analysis; RFLP: Restriction fragment length polymorphism; KSP:[r] ...
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Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in 41 adults: the illness, the patients, and problems of management
... CVS was first described in the English literature in 1882 by Samuel Gee who reported a series of nine children ranging in age from 4 to 8 years [10]. Thereafter, CVS was consid- ered to be a pediatric disorder, and the ...
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Cyclic vomiting syndrome: diagnostic approach and current management strategies
... Abstract: Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a disorder characterized by episodes of nausea and vomiting lasting for 1–5 days followed by asymptomatic ...Keywords: cyclic vomiting ...
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A survey of emergency department use in patients with cyclic vomiting syndrome
... The surveys were posted on the Web message board of the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Association (CVSA) for a period of three months. Patients or caregivers of patients with any prior ED visit related to CVS ...
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Treatment of cyclic vomiting syndrome with co-enzyme Q10 and amitriptyline, a retrospective study
... The study was advertised by the Cyclic Vomiting Syn- drome Association (CVSA), a patient/family and profes- sional led organization over a one-year period. Recruitment was conducted by means of newsletters, ...
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Cyclic Vomiting in Children: Seen Through the Psychiatrist's Eye
... ABSTRACT. Sixteen patients have been seen since 1956 at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh with a diagnosis of cyclic vomiting. Five of these patients were referred for.. psychiatric [r] ...
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Heterogeneity of Diagnoses Presenting as Cyclic Vomiting
... of vomiting. The majority (88%) was felt to have cyclic vomiting syn- drome based on either the absence of any laboratory findings or an incomplete response to treatment of an identified ...with ...
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Cyclic Vomiting
... Several inborn errors of metabolism are mani- fested by vomiting. These include organic acidurias, fatty acid oxidation defects, disorders of carbohy- drate metabolism, and more frequently, disorders of amino acid ...
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Cerebral vasospasm and wernicke encephalopathy secondary to adult cyclic vomiting syndrome: the role of magnesium
... incoercible vomiting over a three month period, and was finally diagnosed with adult cyclic vomiting syn- drome after an extensive study that ruled out organic origin (normal blood tests, stool test, ...
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Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS): is there a difference based on onset of symptoms - pediatric versus adult?
... Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a chronic gastro- intestinal disorder that was initially described in children but is now being recognized with increasing frequency in adults ...of vomiting ...
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High degree of efficacy in the treatment of cyclic vomiting syndrome with combined co-enzyme Q10, L-carnitine and amitriptyline, a case series
... of vomiting episodes [12] is distinct in many ways than CVS in chil- ...of vomiting episodes, two did not tolerate amitriptyline (see footnote 5 in Table 2) and in the three others episodes resolved (two ...
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Effective Prophylactic Therapy for Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome in Children Using Amitriptyline or Cyproheptadine
... The therapeutic responses for all 27 patients in both the amitriptyline-treated and the cyprohepta- dine-treated groups are outlined in Table 1. The pa- tients within each drug treatment group are ranked by increasing ...
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A STUDY OF 44 CHILDREN WITH THE SYNDROME OF RECURRENT (CYCLIC) VOMITING
... vealed organic causes in a greater number of patients. The information regarding the present status of the patients originally seen be- cause of recurrent vomiting[r] ...
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CYCLIC VOMITING AS A FORM OF EPILEPSY IN CHILDREN
... vomiting, evidence of cerebral dysfunction is provided by a family or personal history of epilepsy or migraine, the occurrence of previous brain damage, abnormalities in the electroencep[r] ...
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Mitochondrial disorder caused Charles Darwin's cyclic vomiting syndrome
... essential tremor may occur in association with dysautonomia; both CD and his maternal uncle, tom, had evidence of dysautonomia. Richard died in infancy with an “acute abdominal complaint” suggesting acute pancreatitis. ...
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Pediatric migraine and episodic syndromes that may be associated with migraine
... childhood, cyclic vomiting syndrome and abdominal migraine are currently classified as childhood episodic syndromes, and therefore common precursors of ...
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Pharmacological interventions on early functional gastrointestinal disorders
... Results: We found no evidence-based guidelines or systematic reviews about the utility of pharmacological therapy in functional regurgitation, infant colic and functional diarrhea. In case of regurgitation associated ...
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Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Children: An Italian Prospective Survey
... A total of 194 children satisfied the Rome criteria for the various FGIDs (Table 2). The most common diagnoses were infant regurgitation (72 of 1020 in- fants) and functional constipation (66 of 9660 chil- dren). The low ...
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Dimenhydrinate in Children With Infectious Gastroenteritis: A Prospective, RCT
... 1.96%) in the dimenhydrinate group and 0.06% (SD: 1.74%) in the placebo group (P ⫽ .452; Table 2), with mar- ginal differences across weight quar- tile subgroups. Four children in the di- menhydrinate group and 5 in the ...
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