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Mashup Score: 3Debate: ‘Safety, adequacy, cost’ still favor percutaneous vs. endoscopic ultrasound biopsy - 2 year(s) ago
SAN DIEGO — Although percutaneous liver biopsy is still the “gold standard,” advances in techniques and increased use of endoscopic ultrasound-guided biopsy may soon change that dynamic, according to a debate at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “There are several advantages to [endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided liver biopsy], not the least of which is patient comfort,”
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Mashup Score: 5
SAN DIEGO — An investigational, point-of-care rectal expulsion device may help determine whether patients with chronic constipation will improve with pelvic floor physical therapy, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “[Rectal expulsion device (RED)] was specifically designed to simplify and pull the tertiary care paradigm of anorectal function testing
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Mashup Score: 2Additional doses of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine heighten antibody response in patients with IBD - 2 year(s) ago
SAN DIEGO — Seroconversion rates and antibody response significantly increased after a third dose of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a presenter at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “Third- and fourth-dose responses were significantly stronger than a two-dose regimen,” Joshua Quan, MSc, a master’s student at the University of Calgary
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Mashup Score: 3
SAN DIEGO — In a Healio video exclusive, Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, outlines research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022 that focused on the relationship between gastric function and the regulation of food intake.“Our research mainly focuses on understanding how the gut communicates with the brain to regulate food intake. This is extremely important because we are suffering an
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Mashup Score: 4
SAN DIEGO — Anxiety left unaddressed in the context of inflammatory bowel disease care “will impact the disease course and outcomes,” according to a presenter at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “Anxiety occurs on a spectrum,” Laurie Keefer, PhD, director of psychobehavioral research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and a member of the Healio
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Mashup Score: 4
SAN DIEGO — The discovery of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in endoscopy samples of patients who recovered from COVID-19 suggests that the gut serves as a reservoir for the virus, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “SARS-CoV-2, or COVID, is mostly a respiratory tract infection, but in about 30% of patients you also see digestive symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting
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Mashup Score: 0Dogs Can Be Protective, Even Against Crohn's Disease - 2 year(s) ago
Researchers assessed environmental factors associated with greater risk for developing Crohn’s disease, validating their results with a gut check.
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Mashup Score: 6
SAN DIEGO — In a Healio video exclusive, Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, outlines research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022 that focused on the relationship between gastric function and the regulation of food intake.“Our research mainly focuses on understanding how the gut communicates with the brain to regulate food intake. This is extremely important because we are suffering an
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Mashup Score: 0Older age not linked to increased risk for Crohn’s recurrence after surgical resection - 2 year(s) ago
SAN DIEGO — The risk for postoperative recurrence of Crohn’s disease after ileocolic resection did not increase among older patients compared with a younger cohort, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022. “Despite the advances of medical therapy, the need for surgical intervention [for CD] is still quite significant with more recent estimates placing the
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Mashup Score: 0Dogs Can Be Protective, Even Against Crohn's Disease - 2 year(s) ago
Researchers assessed environmental factors associated with greater risk for developing Crohn’s disease, validating their results with a gut check.
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