From the AGA Journals
From the AGA Journals
VIDEO: Systematic review: Anti-TNFs for IBD don’t up pediatric lymphoma risk
Key clinical point: Physicians should not be hesitant about prescribing anti-TNFs to children because of lymphoma risk.Major finding: The rate of...
News from the AGA
VIDEO: Vedolizumab may benefit Crohn’s patients who fail anti-TNF therapy
Key clinical point: Vedolizumab seems to take longer than 6 weeks to work in patients with moderately to severely active Crohn’s disease. Major...
From the AGA Journals
Gluten-free diet benefits patients with celiac disease serum markers
Key clinical point: Asymptomatic patients with celiac serum markers may not be truly asymptomatic and will improve with a gluten-free diet.Major...
From the AGA Journals
Less than 20% report serious disability 13 years after IBD diagnosis
Major finding: Only 19% of the patients with longstanding Crohn’s disease and 11% of those with longstanding ulcerative colitis reported having...
From the AGA Journals
Role of food allergy testing in EOE unclear
From the AGA Journals
Vary CRC screening by age, sex, race, ethnicity?
Key clinical finding: Screening colonoscopy may be more effective based on sex, age, and race and ethnicity.
From the AGA Journals
Interferon-free regimens yield 96%-100% SVRs
Key clinical point: Relatively short interferon-free regimens attain high sustained virologic response rates in HCV type 1b infection. Major...
From the AGA Journals
Phone calls offer ‘early warning’ in IBD
Major finding: Patients who frequently telephoned an IBD care center were also hospitalized at a rate that was 10 times greater than patients who...
From the AGA Journals
Stop beta-blockers in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
Major finding: Beta-blockers were linked to lower transplant-free survival among spontaneous bacterial peritonitis patients (hazard ratio, 1.58)....
From the AGA Journals
Diet modifications highly effective in EoE
Major finding: Elemental diets effectively induced histologic remission in 90.8% of eosinophilic esophagitis patients.Data source: A meta-analysis...