Surgeons Propose New Risk Model for 30-Day Mortality After Major Liver Resection

A cluster of eight factors appears to help surgeons predict which patients scheduled for major liver resection are ...

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Expert Picks From the 2021 DDW: Bariatric Therapies

In this installment of “Expert Picks,” Shelby Sullivan, MD, the director of the Gastroenterology ...

AUGUST 16, 2021

Endoscopy Insights With Dr. Prateek Sharma

In this new series, Prateek Sharma, MD, a professor of medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, in ...

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Close Encounters In the Third Space

Two new studies pile on more data to what endoscopists already know: Their risk for musculoskeletal injuries is ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Can You Let Patients Drive Home After Propofol?

Except for worries about bowel prep, perhaps the most important question for people undergoing endoscopy is one of ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The Sound (If Not the Fury) May Identify IBS

Doctors have been listening to gut noises for millennia. Hippocrates coined the term “borborygmi” to ...

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Risk for Subsequent Cancer Practically Nil After EMR

After resection of large colorectal polyps, the recurrence rate on first surveillance colonoscopy is almost 20%, ...

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

‘Sad Economics’ Bedevils EMR

Endoscopic mucosal resection of large polyps is more challenging and time-consuming than screening colonoscopy, but ...

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Esophageal Endoscopic Resection Can Be Same-Day Procedure

Same-day discharge is safe in selected patients following esophageal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) when ...

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

On the Horizon: Noninvasive Test May Predict Outcomes in Liver Patients

The use of a noninvasive test for liver function can accurately predict decompensation, death, or the need for ...

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

E-Consult Program Saves Time, Resources for GI Clinics

Implementing an enhanced electronic consultation protocol in which gastroenterologists review every outpatient ...

AUGUST 31, 2020

Checkpoint Inhibitors Appear to Threaten Liver Grafts

Liver transplant patients who receive checkpoint inhibitors for the treatment of cancer may be at increased risk ...

AUGUST 26, 2020