Oral supplementation with 2 unique forms of human milk oligosaccharides can provide nutritional support that significantly reduces abnormal stool consistency, abdominal pain, and bloating and improves health-related quality of life in patients with IBS of all subtypes.
The study highlights the complexity of patients with necrotizing pancreatitis and the importance of early recognition of possible complications colonic and pleural complications.
Patients with bleeding gastrointestinal angiodysplasias who are receiving antithrombotic therapy have a lower probability of rebleeding when treated with hemoclips (in combination or as monotherapy), compared with the use of argon plasma photocoagulation.
In most cases of diagnostic esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) performed for refractory gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD), symptoms alone did not result in pathological findings that prompted a change in the patient’s GERD management.
Patients with suspected eosinophilic gastrointestinal disease (EGID) in the stomach or duodenum had an increased number of mucosal mast cells with or without mucosal eosinophilia.
There is a prevalence of conflicts of interest and lack of transparency of reporting conflicts of interest in gastroenterology guideline authors.
Traditional prognostic evaluation methods, ie, TNM staging, do not incorporate certain clinical and socioeconomic factors that impact patient survival.
Roughly 2 years postsurgery, objective parameters for esophageal emptying via timed barium esophagram in patients who received per-oral endoscopic myotomy returned to presurgery levels, or worse.
In patients with chronic constipation, the most common form of anorectal dysfunction is Type 1 dyssynergic defecation.
Zinc deficiency may perpetuate the underlying pathophysiology of IBS as well as associated psychiatric conditions, via the role zinc plays in the “brain-gut” axis, the immune system, and gastrointestinal barrier integrity.
