From the AGA Journals
From the Journals
Endoscopic screening for gastric cancer is cost effective in Asian Americans
Model of endoscopic screening concomitant with colonoscopy in asymptomatic 50-year-olds finds greatest cost-effectiveness for Chinese, Japanese,...
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AGA Clinical Practice Update: Young adult–onset colorectal cancer diagnosis and management
In addition to receiving cancer staging or being referred to an oncologist, newly diagnosed patients should be counseled about both germline...
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GERD: Endoscopic therapies may offer alternative to PPIs
Across 22 randomized, controlled trials and observational studies, objective and symptomatic improvement varied between endoscopic modalities.
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Mounting data support COVID-19 acute pancreatitis
“It has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 has systemic effects that also includes the gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary systems,” the...
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Scoring system identified patients with suspected small-bowel bleeding
At a cutoff threshold of less than or equal to 0, the negative predictive value of the scoring system was 83.6%, but its positive predictive value...
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AGA updates endoscopic management of nonvariceal upper GI bleeding
Endoscopy is central to management of nonvariceal upper GI bleeding, but only after patients are appropriately triaged and stabilized.
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NAFLD may predict arrhythmia recurrence post-AFib ablation
The presence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease adds a further modifiable target for preablation medical optimization, researchers say.
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AGA releases iron-deficiency anemia guideline
The most important recommendation is to optimize the ferritin threshold with a high sensitivity.
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Anti-CD8a, anti-IL-17A antibodies improved immune disruption in mice with history of NASH
Treatment with anti-CD8a antibodies decreased cytotoxic T cells in all tissues tested, while antibodies targeting IL-17A reduced hepatic...
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Complete endoscopic healing tied to better Crohn’s disease outcomes
Rates of treatment failure were 25% in patients with complete endoscopic mucosal healing, compared with 48% in patients with partial mucosal...