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,...
Laparoscopic-assisted colonoscopic polypectomy works as well as standard laparoscopic hemicolectomy to remove difficult to reach polyps in the right colon, with fewer complications and shorter...
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...
LONDON – Cure rates of 93%-100% were achieved in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 1 treated with both simeprevir and sofosbuvir despite the presence of advanced cirrhosis in a phase...
LONDON – Herbal medicines and other home remedies or supplements are a significant cause of hepatotoxicity experts warned recently during a symposium at the International Liver Congress, which...
Alterations in taste and smell, including aversions to many foods, are common following gastric bypass surgery, according to a report published online in Obesity Surgery.
Most of the literature...
