JULY 17, 2024

Sharma's Endoscopy Insights

Colonic Lesion Detection After Stool Test, PPI Use and AI Bowel Prep Evaluation

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Professor of Medicine
University of Kansas
School of Medicine
Kansas City


By Prateek Sharma, MD, with Jillian Mock

In this month’s column, I cover three studies on different topics: the rate of detection of adenomas and sessile serrated lesions in the colon after a positive stool test, inappropriate use of proton pump inhibitors, and the use of artificial intelligence to improve the quality of colonoscopy.

In the first study, researchers examining colonoscopy after a positive