 Diarrhea
"Diarrhea" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An increased liquidity or decreased consistency of FECES, such as running stool. Fecal consistency is related to the ratio of water-holding capacity of insoluble solids to total water, rather than the amount of water present. Diarrhea is not hyperdefecation or increased fecal weight.
| Descriptor ID |
D003967
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.888.821.214
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Diarrhea".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Diarrhea".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Diarrhea" by people in this website by year, and whether "Diarrhea" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1981 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1989 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Diarrhea" by people in Profiles.
-
Vickers RJ, Tillotson G, Goldstein EJ, Citron DM, Garey KW, Wilcox MH. Ridinilazole: a novel therapy for Clostridium difficile infection. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2016 Aug; 48(2):137-43.
-
Shah DN, Aitken SL, Barragan LF, Bozorgui S, Goddu S, Navarro ME, Xie Y, DuPont HL, Garey KW. Economic burden of primary compared with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized patients: a prospective cohort study. J Hosp Infect. 2016 Jul; 93(3):286-9.
-
Graves NS. Acute gastroenteritis. Prim Care. 2013 Sep; 40(3):727-41.
-
Yeo QM, Crutchley R, Cottreau J, Tucker A, Garey KW. Crofelemer, a novel antisecretory agent approved for the treatment of HIV-associated diarrhea. Drugs Today (Barc). 2013 Apr; 49(4):239-52.
-
Cottreau J, Tucker A, Crutchley R, Garey KW. Crofelemer for the treatment of secretory diarrhea. Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012 Feb; 6(1):17-23.
-
Garey KW, Ghantoji SS, Shah DN, Habib M, Arora V, Jiang ZD, DuPont HL. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study to assess the ability of rifaximin to prevent recurrent diarrhoea in patients with Clostridium difficile infection. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2011 Dec; 66(12):2850-5.
-
Cottreau J, Baker SF, DuPont HL, Garey KW. Rifaximin: a nonsystemic rifamycin antibiotic for gastrointestinal infections. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2010 Jul; 8(7):747-60.
-
Marsh Rde W, George TJ, Siddiqui T, Mendenhall WM, Zlotecki RA, Grobmyer S, Hochwald S, Chang M, Larson B, King J. A phase II trial of neoadjuvant capecitabine combined with hyperfractionated accelerated radiation therapy in locally advanced rectal cancer. Am J Clin Oncol. 2010 Jun; 33(3):251-6.
-
Crutchley RD, Miller J, Garey KW. Crofelemer, a novel agent for treatment of secretory diarrhea. Ann Pharmacother. 2010 May; 44(5):878-84.
-
Jiang ZD, DuPont HL, La Rocco M, Garey KW. In vitro susceptibility of Clostridium difficile to rifaximin and rifampin in 359 consecutive isolates at a university hospital in Houston, Texas. J Clin Pathol. 2010 Apr; 63(4):355-8.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|