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...
CHICAGO – Oral sofosbuvir and ribavirin given for 12 weeks produced a sustained virologic response in 93% of 250 patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 2 and in 85% of patients with genotype 3...
CHICAGO – Oral sofosbuvir and ribavirin given for 12 weeks produced a sustained virologic response in 93% of 250 patients with hepatitis C virus genotype 2 and in 85% of patients with genotype 3...
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...
CHICAGO – Grade 2 or 3 hepatic fibrosis in the setting of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease resolved or improved in 56% of affected patients following their bariatric surgery for severe obesity,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...