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[Small intestine flora in chagasic patients with megaesophagus and/or megacolon: study using the H2 breath test]
1Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP.
Arquivos De Gastroenterologia
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
The author use the H2 breath test to study the small bowel microflora of chagasic patients with megaesophagus and/or megacolon. Compare this group with a control one. Find a significant increase (P < 0.05) in the small bowel flora of chagasic group. It is concluded that H2 breath is a simple and useful test to detect alteration in intestinal flora.