Anna K. Koch

TL;DR: This work is presented at the I1 World Congress for Integrative Medicine & Health 2017 a global forum for exploring the future of comprehensive patient care in Washington, DC.

TL;DR: This is the first review that systematically summarizes effectiveness and safety of herbal medicines for gastrointestinal disorders in children and adolescents exclusively and promising evidence for effectiveness was found for Potentilla erecta, carob bean juice, and an herbal compound preparation including Matricaria chamomilla in treating diarrhea.

TL;DR: Herbal medicine might be effective for the treatment of ARS, but given the low number of clinical trials and the heterogeneous methodological quality, further research is necessary.

TL;DR: The H2 breath test produced no predictive value for the fructose-free diet outcomes; its value as a predictive test is therefore questionable; however, the symptoms of fructose malabsorption correlated significantly with the H2 Breath test measures, and this is an indication that there is at least a degree of validity of the H1 breath test beyond the simple detection or exclusion of fructosemalabsorption.

TL;DR: As a hybrid surrogate marker comprising MR parameters and the PET component, the PET/MR index yielded significantly improved specificity and diagnostic accuracy compared with conventional MR indices, demonstrating its high potential for noninvasive assessment of CD.