Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia in Children: Natural History and Clinicopathological Correlation.

Introduction: Gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM) is defined as the replacement of the normal gastric epithelium by intestinal-type epithelium. GIM is considered a preneoplastic lesion for gastric adenocarcinoma in adults and is found in 25% of Helicobacter pylori ( H pylori ) exposed adults. However, the significance of GIM in pediatric gastric biopsies is still unknown.

Efficacy and Safety of Sulfasalazine Suspension in Children With Ulcerative Colitis.

Background: Sulfasalazine (SZ) is commonly used to treat pediatric ulcerative colitis (UC). SZ can be compounded into a suspension form which is beneficial for children with difficulty swallowing a pill. Despite being utilized for over 40 years, there is a lack of published data on the efficacy and safety of SZ suspension in children with UC.

Initial results from time-resolved LaBr based hard x-ray spectrometer for ADITYA-U tokamak.

Runaway electrons (REs) are passively studied by hard x-ray (HX) emissions generated by REs. A LaBr(Ce) detector-based HX spectroscopic diagnostic (operational within ∼75 keV to 3.5 MeV) has been set up on the ADITYA-U.

Low Adherence to Society Guidelines for the Management of Helicobacter Pylori Among Pediatric Gastroenterologists.

Background: The revised ESPGHAN/NASPGHAN 2016 guideline on the diagnosis and management of Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection discourages a "test and treat" strategy. Instead, upper endoscopy (EGD) is recommended when a valid clinical indication is present. Likewise, new treatment recommendations for first-line therapies strongly encourage obtaining antimicrobial susceptibility before treatment.

Disentanglement of random access memory cards to regenerate copper foil: A novel thermo-electrical approach.

This paper reports the development of a novel process combining thermal and electrical treatments, which are optimised to provide efficient recovery of copper foil from Random Access Memory cards (RAMs). A primary thermal transformation at 900 °C facilitates a highly efficient recovery of copper foils from RAMs during the secondary processing in the electrical fragmenter, using only 10 pulses at 150 kV. The process yield was 98% and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analysis showed that the copper foils had 98% purity.