IMN || Gastroenterology

VIDEO: Low FODMAP diet reduced kids’ IBS pain

Posted on: 05/05/2014 - 20:10

CHICAGO – A diet that restricts wheat, beans, dairy, and fruit juice in children with irritable bowel syndrome reduced the frequency and severity of abdominal pain, according to a study presented at...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
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Initial dilation no help in eosinophilic esophagitis

Posted on: 05/05/2014 - 14:35

CHICAGO – Esophageal dilation combined with standard medical management of eosinophilic esophagitis doesn’t provide added benefit over medication alone in terms of dysphagia relief, according to a...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
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NAFLD mortality higher in normal weight patients

Posted on: 04/05/2014 - 20:45

Lean patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease had a higher overall mortality than did overweight or obese patients with NAFLD, according to a review of 1,090 biopsy-confirmed patients in the...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
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Liver transplant exceptions deserve fresh look

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:01

Room air hypoxemia was associated with greater post–liver transplant mortality in hepatopulmonary syndrome patients, according to Dr. David S. Goldberg and his colleagues. On the other hand, HPS...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
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Anti-TNFs equal in Crohn’s disease

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:01

There is no significant difference between infliximab and adalimumab in Crohn’s disease, reported Dr. Mark T. Osterman and his colleagues in the May 1 issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
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Budesonide safe, effective for microscopic colitis

Posted on: 01/05/2014 - 05:01

Oral budesonide is effective and safe for short-term treatment of collagenous colitis. Indeed, the finding supports the recent recommendation by the European Microscopic Colitis Group to make...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
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Hepatitis C drugs pricey, but cure is priceless

Posted on: 28/04/2014 - 18:05

It was almost as if someone decided April would be hepatitis C month. In case you hadn’t notice, April saw publication of six separate articles in the New England Journal of Medicine on what were...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...
Type: News Item

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