Publications by authors named "J Salducci"
Background And Study Aims: Patients who have undergone endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) are usually left to fast for arbitrary reasons until they are examined on the following day. The aim of this study was to check whether this systematic fasting after ES is actually justified.
Patients And Methods: A blinded randomized prospective study, involving 146 patients, was carried out from January 1999 to September 2001.
Background: Postoperative recurrences of Crohn's disease (CD) has been widely investigated in previous studies. Nevertheless, the risk factors for CD recurrence in patients presenting with intestinal stenosis are not clearly identified.
Patients And Method: Thirty consecutive patients out of a cohort of 134 patients with CD presented with an intestinal stenosis diagnosed between 1995 and 1999.
Background And Study Aims: The diagnosis of anorectal dynamic disorders and perineal insufficiency has been mainly based up to now on the use of defecography. Here, we performed a prospective blinded study to evaluate the accuracy of a new procedure, dynamic anorectal endosonography (DAE), by comparing it with defecography.
Patients And Methods: A total of 43 women (mean age 53), presenting with outlet obstruction, were prospectively enrolled in our study.
Background: The extent of fat emulsification affects the activity of digestive lipases in vitro and may govern digestion and absorption of dietary fat.
Objective: We investigated the effect of the fat globule size of 2 enteral emulsions on fat digestion and assimilation in humans.
Design: Healthy subjects received intragastrically a coarse (10 microm) and a fine (0.