IMN || Gastroenterology

Diet modifications highly effective in EoE

Posted on: 01/06/2014 - 05:01

An elemental diet was more than 90% effective in inducing histologic remission in eosinophilic esophagitis patients, reported Dr. Ángel Arias and colleagues in the June issue of...

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

Liver cancer without cirrhosis surprisingly common: Is NAFLD the cause?

Posted on: 30/05/2014 - 17:15

CHICAGO – A full 13% of patients diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma did not have underlying cirrhosis in a national sample of 1,500 veterans. Although hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients...

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Liver cancer without cirrhosis surprisingly common: Is NAFLD the cause?

Posted on: 30/05/2014 - 17:15

Field of Interest: Oncology

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

Hepatitis B screening recommended for high-risk patients

Posted on: 27/05/2014 - 15:55

Physicians should screen all asymptomatic but high-risk adolescents and adults for hepatitis B virus infection, according to an updated recommendation

Field of Interest: Gastroentero...

Type: News Item

Hepatitis B screening recommended for high-risk patients

Posted on: 27/05/2014 - 15:55

Physicians should screen all asymptomatic but high-risk adolescents and adults for hepatitis B virus infection, according to an updated recommendation

Field of Interest: Pulmonology

Type: News Item

Etrolizumab leads to clinical remission in some patients with refractory ulcerative colitis

Posted on: 23/05/2014 - 19:35

The investigational monoclonal antibody etrolizumab effected clinical remission in significantly more patients with refractory ulcerative colitis than did placebo, an industry-sponsored trial...

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

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