An international team of investigators created a clinical decision support tool to assist in identifying patients with ulcerative colitis most likely to benefit from treatment with vedolizumab.
While DAAs have improved the treatment of chronic HCV infection by eliciting higher rates of sustained virologic response, they also interact with a number of agents that could potentially limit their effectiveness.
For adults with uncomplicated acute appendicitis, treatment success rates ≥65 percent are seen with both oral antibiotics and combined intravenous and oral antibiotics.
The FMT National Registry, established by the AGA in partnership with other organizations, provides initial results on the safety and effectiveness of FMT for the management of Clostridioides difficile infections.
The American Gastroenterological Association provides best practice advice to assist gastroenterologists in making an accurate diagnosis and providing optimal treatment for patients with colonic diverticulitis.
Higher BMI is associated with a significantly increased risk for colorectal cancer among men, whereas higher waist-to-hip ratio is a strong risk factor among women.
A team of investigators sought to determine the influence of infliximab on gut bacterial and fungal composition in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
As Crohn disease perianal fistulas often do not respond to available treatments, researchers developed a patient-derived quality-of-life tool to evaluate the impact of the condition on patients.
A team of investigators studied a group of asymptomatic patients who were at increased risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease to assess proteolytic activity in advance of a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis.
Increased utilization of HCV-positive liver allografts for LT is seen as one of the ways to counter national organ shortages, so researchers set out to better characterize the allografts that come from HCV-positive donors from specific regions.
A team of researchers conducted a multicenter, randomized study to determine the best strategy for offering population-wide screening for colorectal cancer.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted marketing authorization to the EndoRotor System, which provides a minimally invasive way to resect and remove necrotic tissue for patients with walled-off pancreatic necrosis.
Given the lack of effective tools available for observing EGD, researchers sought to develop an AI-assisted EGD system to automatically monitor the entire stomach in real time and maintain a record of the procedure time.
The study authors aimed to estimate the prevalence and critical determinants ofpsychological distress among gastroenterologists during the COVID-19 pandemic.