What Is an Upper GI Series? An upper GI series is a group of X-ray tests that look at your GI tract -- your food pipe (the esophagus), stomach, and the first part of your small intestine (the ...

GISTs are a rare type of cancer that develops in the digestive tract’s connective tissue, specifically from cells that help regulate muscle contractions. GISTs are primarily driven by genetic ...

A fungus discovered in the mouse stomach may hold a key to fungal evolution within the gastrointestinal tract, according to new research led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. The finding ...

The data collected includes the pill's position in three dimensions and the time it takes to travel through 30 feet of the GI tract, identifying the time spent in specific anatomic regions of the ...

Although most people don’t realize it, “COVID-19 really is a GI-tract disease” as well as a respiratory illness, says Dr. Mark Rupp, chief of infectious diseases at the University of Nebrask ...

Background and objectives This study investigates upper gastrointestinal tract (UGIT) involvement in patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), a condition traditionally considered limited to the colon.

Major anatomic diagnoses were acute hemorrhagic necrosis of the gastrointestinal tract, idiopathic hypertrophy of the heart, with mural thrombosis in the left atrium, renal and cerebral infarcts ...