Retrospective comparison of long-term ten-day/month rifaximin or mesalazine in prevention of relapse in acute diverticulitis.

Objective: Diverticular disease (DD) of the colon has an increasing burden on health services. The effectiveness of rifaximin for the treatment of DD, is not yet established. The aim of this study is to assess the impact of long-term treatment with rifaximin or mesalazine in a 10-day schedule for the prevention of recurrent diverticulitis.

[Diverticular disease: towards 2020. An evidence-based approach].

Diverticular disease (DD) of the colon has an increasing burden on health service resources, in terms of hospital admissions, mortality and surgery rate. We present an overview of the clinical history of DD, and of the ways that gastroenterologists have to modify it. Prevalence of the disease increases with aging.

Oral beclomethasone dipropionate: a critical review of its use in the management of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.

Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are inflammatory bowel diseases characterised by a chronic relapsing course. Corticosteroids represent the mainstay of medical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease for the induction of remission. Despite the high efficacy of systemic steroids, their use is limited by the high incidence of potentially serious adverse effects.

[Role of rifaximin in the treatment of colonic diverticular disease].

Diverticular disease of the colon is the fifth most important gastrointestinal disease in terms of direct and indirect healthcare costs in western countries. Although most patients with colonic diverticula remain asymptomatic for their whole life, in 20-25% of cases will develop symptoms. Antibiotics are commonly used in the treatment of inflammatory complication of diverticular disease.

A case of oesophageal ulcer developed after taking homeopathic pill in a young woman.

Oesophageal ulcers occur mainly as a result of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD). However, pill-induced oesophageal ulcers are a fairly common event. The lesion is mainly due to entrapment of the pill and/or its chemical composition thereof.