Gastroenterology

Study results show that patients who underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery experienced greater and more rapid weight loss at 12- and 24 months post-surgery compared to patients who received the sleeve gastrectomy procedure. GB patients also experienced a larger decrease in hemoglobin within the first two months post-surgery and a sustained decrease in creatinine.

A veteran in the field of medicine gets a bird's eye view of life from the patient's perspective

With the numbers of children suffering from food allergies and asthma on the rise research has turned to the inside of the body to look for clues about a possible treatment.

Deaths and infections traced to duodenoscopes contaminated with carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae infections are on the rise. The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research and testing lab, today put out a "high priority hazard report" on procedures for cleaning the devices. It isn't easy.

Researchers conducted a randomized lifestyle intervention study in 165 patients who had undergone RYGB surgery to determine the magnitude of health and comorbidity improvements, change in psychopharmacologic drug use and change in employment over 2 years.

To help hospitals implement antibiotics prescribing improvement programs, the CDC has developed several tools and guidelines and has begun partnering with states to implement stewardship programs, awareness campaigns, and stringent checklists.

Combination treatment with daclatasvir and asunaprevir plus interferon/ribavirin had high success rates in a 24-week clinical trial for treatment of hepatitis C in patients coninfected with HIV.

An interferon/ribavirin-free pill that combines two drugs to treat patients with certain genotypes of hepatitis C who are also infected with HIV was found to be highly effective in a 12-week trial, clearing the hepatitis C virus from almost all the patients involved.

Genetic mutations may increase risk of acute and chronic pancreatitis in patients who are also heavy smokers and drinkers.

Multicenter phase II study will also evaluate pharmacokinetics of omega-3 carboxylic acids and omega-3-acid ethyl esters administered to patients with varying degrees of EPI.

Patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency treated with pancreatin for up to one year experienced improvements in gastrointestinal symptoms and reduction in the severity of their recurrent pain.

The high cure rate associated with new drugs approved to treat chronic hepatitis C has stirred debate about the relevance of early diagnosis and treatment of the acute stage of this infectious liver disease.

Today, there are multiple combinations of interferon-free treatments that have efficacy rates of 90% or higher and are better tolerated with fewer severe side effects than previous interferon-based therapies.

Colon cancer is declining, and as a result, specialists like Mark Pochapin, MD director of the Divsion of Gastroenterology at NYU Langone Medical Center are finding even more to love about their field. Plus, there's the challenge of mastering a complex system of organs and tissues. "The GI tract has something for everyone," Pochapin said in a recent interview.

Even with the number of patients being screened for colorectal cancer screening increasing every year there continues to be a concerted effort to push that number up and the number of cancer related deaths down.

While Colonoscopy may be the most common form of colorectal cancer screening there have bee new developments in the field which could provide reliable results without patients undergoing a procedure which many fined uncomfortable.

As the number of people being screened for colorectal cancer increases doctors are able to catch more cases before they become a matter of life or death. While colonoscopy is currently the most common option there are new developments in the field every day.

Researchers based at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, have revealed potentially favorable results from 3 imaging methods for pediatric patients with Crohn's disease: magnetic resonance enterography (MRE), small-intestine contrast US (SICUS), and capsule endoscopy (CE) in diagnosing pediatric Crohn's disease (CD).

The incidence of allergic asthma and other airway diseases in childhood has increased in industrialized societies, and it is known that environmental exposures play a role in their development.

A team of 26 experts from the US, Europe, and Scandinavia has recommended routine implementation of a new probe-based Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (pCLE) system, Cellvizio, to improve diagnostic evaluation and management of several gastric, intestinal, and biliary diseases.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday warned physicians and medical personnel that the design of duodenoscopes makes the devices difficult to clean and thus poses a risk of transmitting infectious agents.

Equipment used for endoscopic procedures believed to be cause of infections.

A clinical trial conducted by drug maker AbbVie resulted in a 95% cure rate of hepatitis C among Japanese patients who were treated with an all-oral, interferon-free combination drug, the company announced.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially allowed marketing of the Eclipse System for treating adult women afflicted with fecal incontinence (FI), the inability to control bowel movements.

Researchers have recently discovered the potential new use for ferric maltol as an oral treatment for iron deficiency anemia in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).

Nonpharmacologic treatments like hypnotherapy were reported effective in pediatric abdominal pain-related functional gastrointestinal disorders (AP-FGIDs).

Chronic narcotic was reported more than twice as widespread in pediatric patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), compared with children free from this disease.

Trypanosoma cruzi is an insect-borne protozoan parasite and one of the world's most infectious diseases. It causes Chagas disease, which the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classified as one of 5 neglected parasitic infections.

Recent drug approvals and continuing breakthroughs in research are creating additional treatment options for patients with hepatitis C.

Moderate consumption of red grape juice or wine has been shown to help burn fat better, improving the health of overweight people.