Gastroenterology
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Risk Scores Define Likely Liver Retransplant Failure
Major Finding: Eight independent predictors of liver retransplant graft failure were identified based on recipient, donor, and operative variables...
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FDA Approves Narrow-Spectrum Antibiotic for C. Difficile
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Teduglutide Cuts Parenteral Nutrition Needs in Short-Bowel Syndrome
Major Finding: Nearly two-thirds of patients (63%) who were randomized to teduglutide achieved at least a 20% reduction in weekly parenteral...
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Tibial Nerve Stimulation Found Promising for Fecal Incontinence
Major Finding: Some 82% of patients achieved greater than a 50% reduction in episodes of fecal incontinence through percutaneous stimulation of...
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Flex Sig Misses More Colorectal Cancers than Colonoscopy
Major Finding: The rate of missed or new left-sided colorectal cancers was 11.7% after flexible sigmoidoscopy vs.
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Most Interval Cancers Were Missed by Index Colonoscopy
Major Finding: Colorectal cancers that occur in the interval between colonoscopies represented 2.2% of all colorectal cancers at one institution...
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FDA Okays Second Hepatitis C Antiviral
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Sutent Approved for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
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Sutent Approved for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
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Water Colonoscopies Find More Adenomas
Major Finding: The overall adenoma detection rate increased from 46% with air insufflation to 57% with the water method (P = .04).Data Source:...
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Low-Dose Irradiation Allays 93% of Gastric MALT Lymphomas at 10 Years
Major Finding: After a median of 5.5 years, the disease control rate was 98%.Data Source: Data representing 16 years of experience with the use of...