Endoscopy, Pancreas, & Biliary Tract
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Cold snare bests cold forceps technique for polypectomy
Major finding: Histologic eradication was 93.2% with cold snare polypectomy, compared with 75.9% for cold forceps polypectomy.Data source: A...
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Gastric bypass helps poorly controlled type 2 diabetes
Major finding: Patients with mild to moderate obesity and type 2 diabetes who undergo bariatric surgery are much more likely to achieve weight-...
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Novel genetic marker predicts pancreatic cancer risk
Major finding: The frequency of the A allele was significantly greater among patients with pancreatic cancer than among controls (odds ratio, 1.57...
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Onsite cytopathology improves pancreatic biopsy quality
Major finding: Onsite cytopathologists identified significantly more samples as suspicious or malignant than did pathologists who examined samples...
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Drug combo curbs organ failures in acute pancreatitis patients
Major finding: The combination of octreotide and celecoxib halved rates of organ failure and disease progression in patients with acute...
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Completion study key after incomplete colonoscopy
Major finding: Overall, 12% of the patients were found to have clinically significant lesions when they underwent completion studies. Data source...
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More adenomas detected with FUSE endoscope
Major finding: In 88 subjects who underwent traditional forward-viewing colonoscopy followed by FUSE colonoscopy, traditional colonoscopy detected...
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Nighttime cholecystectomy may increase complication risk
Major finding: Older nighttime cholecystectomy patients had a threefold increased risk for complications.Data source: A retrospective study of 576...
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Skip the sphincterotomy before bile duct stent placement
Major finding: There were no significant differences in early or late complications among patients with pancreatic cancer who underwent stent...
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Narrow-band imaging colonoscopy predicts histology of diminutive polyps
Major finding: The negative predictive value of narrow-band imaging colonoscopy was 92% for polyps less than 5 mm in the distal colon.Data source...