Ernesto Cristiano Lauritano

TL;DR: The eradication of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth resulted in improvement in motor fluctuations without affecting the pharmacokinetics of levodopa.

TL;DR: The lactulose breath test is a reliable and non‐invasive test for the diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and sugar malabsorption and may play a role in irritable bowel syndrome.

TL;DR: No data exist on small intestinal bacterial overgrowth prevalence in a significant population of healthy non‐irritable bowel syndrome subjects, and differences in criteria to define irritable bowel Syndrome patients and methods to assess small intestinal bacteria overgrowth may explain different results.

TL;DR: Assessment of the prevalence of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth in PD patients found that Parkinson's disease is associated with gastrointestinal motility abnormalities that could favor the occurrence of small intestine bacterial over growth.

TL;DR: Breath tests (glucose and/or lactulose breath tests) have been proposed as a sensitive and simple tool for the diagnosis of bacterial overgrowth, being non-invasive and inexpensive compared to the gold standard represented by the culture of intestinal aspirates.