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- Our team of dedicated physician medical editors sort, rank and summarize articles in over 2,000 medical journals to bring you the key developments in your uniquely diverse field. In addition to general gastroenterology news, you'll find subspecialty coverage of the biliary system and pancreas, colorectal cancer and polyps, hepatology and liver disease, GI bleeding, GI infectious diseases, gastrointestinal endoscopy, obesity, parenteral and enteral nutrition, diagnostic imaging, and more.
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Latest (17) Full Text Articles (60)981 Screening for head and neck cancer in liver transplant candidates: A review of 11 years of experience at the University of Pittsburgh The Laryngoscope, February 6, 2012
982 Donation After Cardiac Death Liver Transplant Recipients Have an Increased Frequency of Acute Kidney Injury American Journal of Transplantation, February 3, 2012
983 A case report of anesthesia management in the liver transplantation recipient with porphyria Full Text Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, February 3, 2012
984 Epidemiology of Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Adult Kidney and Kidney Pancreas Recipients: Report of the French Registry and Analysis of Subgroups of Lymphomas Full Text American Journal of Transplantation, February 2, 2012
985 Report of Four Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Transplants in HIV-Positive Recipients with Favorable Outcomes American Journal of Transplantation, February 2, 2012
986 Risk factors for invasive fungal infections in liver transplant recipients Full Text Chinese Medical Journal, February 2, 2012
987 Sorafenib for recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma after liver transplantation Digestive and Liver Diseases, February 1, 2012
988 Long-Term Impact of Liver Transplantation on Respiratory Function and Nutritional Status in Children and Adults with Cystic Fibrosis American Journal of Transplantation, February 1, 2012
989 Sirolimus Conversion Regimen Versus Continued Calcineurin Inhibitors in Liver Allograft Recipients: A Randomized Trial American Journal of Transplantation, February 1, 2012
990 Abnormal CX3CR1+ Lamina Propria Myeloid Cells from Intestinal Transplant Recipients with NOD2 Mutations American Journal of Transplantation, February 1, 2012
991 Associations Between EBV Serostatus and Organ Transplant Type in PTLD Risk: An Analysis of the SRTR National Registry Data in the United States Full Text American Journal of Transplantation, February 1, 2012
992 Liver Transplantation for Hepatitis C from Donation After Cardiac Death Donors: An Analysis of OPTN/UNOS Data American Journal of Transplantation, February 1, 2012
993 Long-Term Pancreatic Allograft Survival After Renal Retransplantation in Prior Simultaneous Pancreas-Kidney Recipients American Journal of Transplantation, February 1, 2012
994 Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder in living-donor liver transplantation: a single-center experience Surgery Today, January 31, 2012
995 Liver cell transplantation in severe infantile oxalosis—a potential bridging procedure to orthotopic liver transplantation Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, January 30, 2012
996 Factors Related to Fatigue in Patients With Cirrhosis Before and After Liver Transplantation Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , January 27, 2012 Clinical Article
997 Duodenum-Stomach Anastomosis: a New Technique for Exocrine Drainage in Pancreas Transplantation Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, January 27, 2012
998 Estimates of Early Death, Acute Liver Failure, and Long-term Mortality Among Live Liver Donors Gastroenterology, January 27, 2012
999 Laparoscopic Robot-Assisted Pancreas Transplantation: First World Experience Transplantation, January 26, 2012
1000 Long-term outcome after pancreas transplantation Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, January 25, 2012
Clinical Pearls in Gastroenterology
- Eating an early breakfast and dinner when taking PPIs can lower FSSG scores and improve GERD symptoms. (Factors leading to increased FSSG scores: female gender, inadequate sleep, lack of breakfast, antihypertensive agent non-users and dinner just before bedtime.)
- 33% of patients with suspected GERD are resistant or partially respond to PPIs
- Infliximab is the only TNF inhibitor approved by the FDA for ulcerative colitis.
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What is the best strategy for CRC screening?
As published in the NEJM, researchers in the COLONPREV study (Spain) have reported that fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) is as effective as colonoscopy in the detection of colorectal cancer (CRC). The study population was 50-69 years of age and comprised of 26,703 subjects who underwent a one-time colonoscopy and 26,599 subjects who underwent FIT every 2 years. The primary outcome measure was CRC deaths at 10 years. Participation in screening was greater in the FIT group than the colonoscopy group (34.2% vs. 24.6%). Detection of CRC was similar between the two groups (0.1%). Advanced and non-advanced adenomas were detected more frequently in the colonoscopy group than the FIT group (1.9% vs. 0.9% [OR=2.3] and 4.2% vs. 0.4% [OR=9.8], respectively).
Read the article summaryPPIs increase risk of Clostridium difficile infection
Based on a meta-analysis involving 30 observational studies and 202,965 patients, proton pump inhibitor therapy has been shown to significantly increase the risk of infection with Clostridium difficile (OR = 2.15).
Read the article summaryMetformin improves survival in patients with DM and CRC
In a single institution study involving 424 patients with DM and CRC, those patients treated with metformin had a 30% improvement in OS compared with patients not treated with metformin. Specifically, the metformin-treated patients had a mean survival of 76.9 months compared to 56.9 months.
Read the article summaryMost Popular Gastro Articles
Last month's top read Top Articles of 20121 Predicting End-Stage Renal Disease After Liver Transplant American Journal of Transplantation, May 20, 2013
2 Immunosuppression After Liver Transplantation for Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Influences Activity of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , May 8, 2013
3 Donor risk index for african american liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C virus Hepatology, May 22, 2013 Clinical Guideline
4 Completely steroid-free immunosuppression in liver transplantation: a randomized study Clinical Transplantation, May 7, 2013
5 Conversion From Twice-Daily to Once-Daily Tacrolimus in Stable Liver Transplant Patients: Effectiveness in a Real-World Setting Transplantation Proceedings, April 30, 2013
6 Biliary cast syndrome post liver transplantation: Risk factors and outcome Liver International, April 2, 2013 Review Article
7 Effects of N-Acetylcysteine on Cytokines in Non-Acetaminophen Acute Liver Failure: Potential Mechanism of Improvement in Transplant-Free Survival Liver International, May 20, 2013 Review Article
8 Re-evaluation of the indications for liver transplantation in wilsons disease based on the outcomes of patients referred to a transplant center Pediatric Transplantation, May 30, 2013 Review Article
9 Induction immunosuppression in liver transplantation: a review Transplant International, May 13, 2013 Review Article
10 Effects of Immunosuppression and Liver Transplantation on Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology , May 9, 2013 Review Article
11 Liver transplantation using grafts of living donors with isolated unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia: a matched case-control study Transplant International, April 3, 2013 Review Article
12 Infections in intestinal and multivisceral transplant recipients Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, May 29, 2013 Review Article
13 Randomized multicenter trial comparing tacrolimus plus mycophenolate mofetil with tacrolimus plus steroids among HCV-positive recipients of living donor liver transplantation Liver Transplantation, May 30, 2013
14 Bile duct damage after cold storage of deceased donor livers predicts biliary complications after liver transplantation Journal of Hepatology, May 20, 2013 Review Article
15 Pancreas transplantation, antibodies and rejection: where do we stand? Current Opinion in Organ Transplantation, May 21, 2013 Review Article
16 Outcomes with Split Liver Transplantation Are Equivalent to Those with Whole Organ Transplantation Journal of the American College of Surgeons, May 6, 2013
17 Plasma MicroRNA, a Potential Biomarker for Acute Rejection After Liver Transplantation Transplantation, April 22, 2013 Review Article
18 Improving outcomes of biliary atresia: French national series 1986-2009 Journal of Hepatology, May 22, 2013
19 Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy and hepatopulmonary syndrome: Prevalence and prognosis in a series of patients Respiratory Medicine, May 1, 2013 Review Article
20 Late Acute Liver Allograft Rejection; A Study of Its Natural History and Graft Survival in the Current Era Transplantation, April 3, 2013 Review Article
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