Digestive Disease Week

Norfloxacin reduced inflammatory bowel syndrome symptoms

Posted on: 03/06/2014 - 17:35

CHICAGO – Norfloxacin therapy relieved symptoms of inflammatory bowel syndrome better than placebo did in a prospective study of 80 patients, especially in patients with small intestinal bacterial...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Tests may help before liver transplant, not after

Posted on: 03/06/2014 - 15:15

CHICAGO – Two laboratory measurements that are commonly used to assess the cause of symptomatic ascites before liver transplant may be deceptive when used to assess posttransplant ascites, a...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Less risk of esophageal bleed with rifaximin

Posted on: 30/05/2014 - 19:20

CHICAGO – Patients with cirrhosis and medium to large esophageal varices were 81% less likely to develop a first esophageal variceal bleed within 5 years if they took rifaximin to manage hepatic...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

FISH panel may improve Barrett’s surveillance

Posted on: 28/05/2014 - 17:45

CHICAGO – Fluorescence in situ hybridization testing for aneuploidy and loss of the tumor suppressor gene P16 can be useful in predicting progression to high-grade dysplasia and adenocarcinoma in...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Risk alleles linked to thiopurine-induced pancreatitis

Posted on: 27/05/2014 - 19:45

CHICAGO – A genomewide association study has identified specific alleles that may pinpoint those at risk for thiopurine-induced pancreatitis in inflammatory bowel disease. Patients heterozygous at...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Study takes air out of pre–bypass intragastric balloon

Posted on: 23/05/2014 - 18:00

CHICAGO – Treatment with an intragastric balloon before bariatric surgery produces significant weight loss in the morbidly obese, but at the cost of more surgical complications, according to the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Early endoscopic follow-up nets dysplasia in 9.5% of Barrett’s

Posted on: 23/05/2014 - 17:10

CHICAGO – Early endoscopic follow-up within 24 months detected dysplasia in nearly one in 10 patients with nondysplastic or low-grade Barrett’s esophagus in a retrospective study at the Mayo...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Fecal transplant falls short in UC, but may not be the end

Posted on: 20/05/2014 - 22:35

CHICAGO – Results were negative from the first randomized placebo-controlled trial of fecal microbiota transplant in ulcerative colitis, but enthusiasm remains for this newly regulated and trendy...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Infliximab monitoring during remission limits IBD flare-ups

Posted on: 20/05/2014 - 14:30

CHICAGO – Infliximab discontinuation rates were lower in a pilot study of inflammatory bowel disease patients who were in remission and had their serum drug levels measured. Trough infliximab...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Mindfulness improved irritable bowel for a year

Posted on: 15/05/2014 - 18:05

CHICAGO – An 8-week course in mindfulness-based stress reduction reduced the severity of irritable bowel syndrome symptoms 6 and 12 months later, compared with 8 weeks of participation in a control...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

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