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    ADVANCED RESEARCH IN GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY JUNIPER PUBLISHERS Authored by Zvi H Perry   Abstract The improvements in life expectancy combined with aging of the baby boomer generation will result in a rapid increase in the population older than 65 years in the next few decades, and thus an increase in the need to take care of elderly patients. The authors of this chapter were born and raised in Israel, a country in which due to the holocaust and the fact it was a young nation, was not accustomed to elderly patients. But, in the last decade the percentage of patients older than 65 has crossed the 10% mark of the entire population and we were forced to learn and to find ways to care and treat older patients. As the saying in pediatrics, that a child is not a small adult, the same rule applies seemingly to elderly patients and the know how in treating them is not the same as the 30 years old patient. It is important to do so, because It is ex...

Juniper Publishers: The Impact of Maternal HPA Activity on Postnatal O... : Pediatrics & Neonatology - Juniper Publishers Introduction Excessive foetal exposure to maternal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA)...

  ADVANCED RESEARCH IN GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY JUNIPER PUBLISHERS     Authored by Vani Malhotra Abstract Introduction: Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy has a definite role in the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal disorder. Though its clinical efficacy and safety is well established in non pregnant patients but its safety has not been well studied in the pregnant woman. Due to its inherent risk to both mother and fetus it should be performed during pregnancy only when there is no other better way available to diagnose or treat the gastrointestinal disorder. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of all pregnant females who were subjected to upper GI endoscopy over five years (20102015) in Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak with the aim of determining the various etiological factor responsible for subjecting a pregnant female female to upper GI endoscopy. Result: A total of 35 patients were subjected to upper GI endo...