From the AGA Journals
From the AGA Journals
Role of food allergy testing in EOE unclear
From the AGA Journals
Vary CRC screening by age, sex, race, ethnicity?
Key clinical finding: Screening colonoscopy may be more effective based on sex, age, and race and ethnicity.
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Interferon-free regimens yield 96%-100% SVRs
Key clinical point: Relatively short interferon-free regimens attain high sustained virologic response rates in HCV type 1b infection. Major...
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Phone calls offer ‘early warning’ in IBD
Major finding: Patients who frequently telephoned an IBD care center were also hospitalized at a rate that was 10 times greater than patients who...
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Stop beta-blockers in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
Major finding: Beta-blockers were linked to lower transplant-free survival among spontaneous bacterial peritonitis patients (hazard ratio, 1.58)....
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Diet modifications highly effective in EoE
Major finding: Elemental diets effectively induced histologic remission in 90.8% of eosinophilic esophagitis patients.Data source: A meta-analysis...
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Ramosetron offers IBS-D alternative
Major finding: More than half of patients given ramosetron (50.3%) reported improved stool consistency after the first month of treatment,...
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Liver transplant exceptions deserve fresh look
Major finding: Liver transplant recipients with hepatopulmonary syndrome have success similar to that of other transplant candidates, unless...
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Anti-TNFs equal in Crohn’s disease
Major finding: Infliximab and adalimumab have equal clinical effectiveness on three important measures in Crohn’s disease.Data source: A...
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Budesonide safe, effective for microscopic colitis
Major finding: Daily budesonide decreased the number of watery stools per week in collagenous colitis from 29.7 to 2.4 (P less than.0001).Data...