Gastroenterology
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Risk factors for death in NAFLD patients remain elusive
Major finding: Age, male sex, truncal obesity, and a low HDL level are risk factors for death in patients with NAFLD, but are common to other...
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Serum cytokeratin fragments correlate with NASH histology
Major finding: Every 100-U/L decline in serum cytokeratin fragment (CK-18) levels was significantly associated with overall histological...
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Physicians' adenoma detection rate predicts risk of interval colorectal cancers
Major finding: For every 1% decline in the physician adenoma detection rate, colorectal cancer risk increased by about 3%, and the risk of death...
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Hint of prolonged response to vedoluzimab seen in Crohn's
Major finding: Among patients with a documented response to vedoluzimab after 6 weeks, 32% of those who received it every 8 weeks had a clinical...
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More adenomas detected with FUSE endoscope
Major finding: In 88 subjects who underwent traditional forward-viewing colonoscopy followed by FUSE colonoscopy, traditional colonoscopy detected...
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Nighttime cholecystectomy may increase complication risk
Major finding: Older nighttime cholecystectomy patients had a threefold increased risk for complications.Data source: A retrospective study of 576...
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Skip the sphincterotomy before bile duct stent placement
Major finding: There were no significant differences in early or late complications among patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent stent...
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Simultaneous resection reduced repeat intervention
Major finding: No patients who had surgical cytoreduction of liver metastases at the time or primary tumor resection required a repeat hepatic...
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Nortriptyline no better than placebo for gastroparesis symptoms
Major finding: There were no significant differences in improvement of gastroparesis symptom scores with nortriptyline vs.
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Low vitamin D level may up risk for IBD flares
Major finding: In all, 32% of patients with Crohn’s disease who had plasma vitamin D below 20 ng/mL had IBD-related surgery, compared with 13% of...
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Barrett's recurrence more frequent in older, nonwhite patients
Major finding: Significant independent predictors of recurrence included nonwhite race (OR, 2.47), length of the tubular esophagus with Barrett’s...