Articles
New Techniques in the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
EndoscopyCapsule EndoscopyCapsule endoscopy (CE) was first introduced in 2001 (Pillcam SB, Given Imaging, Yoqneam, Israel), and is approved for use...
Non-surgical Options For Treating Heartburn A Primer on New Endoscopic Therapies for GERD
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a major health problem, with an estimated 19 million chronic GERD sufferers in the US.1 The disease is...
Oral Sodium Phosphate (Fleet®) is a Superior Colonoscopy Preparation
The accuracy and safety of colonoscopy depends on a high-quality bowel preparation. Small-volume preparation, such as sodium phosphate...
Palliation of Dysphagia in Esophageal Cancer
Introduction Patients with limited or locally advanced esophageal cancer are best treated with surgical resection, with or without pre-operative...
Photodynamic Therapy for Oesophageal Cancer and Dysplasia
The aim of PDT in the oesophagus is the targeted local destruction of abnormal cancerous or precancerous tissue. It is a minimally invasive therapy,...
Photodynamic Therapy for Oesophageal Carcinoma
Unfortunately, many patients are declined surgery because of advanced age, significant co-morbidities or advanced disease that requires palliation...
Post-European Association for the Study of the Liver Congress Report - Right First Time – Therapeutic Strategy for Long-term Management of Chronic Hepatitis B
Hepatitis B Infection Chronic HBV infection can present serologically as either hepatitis B ‘e’ antigen-positive or -negative (HBeAg-positive or...
Progress in Diagnosis and Treatment of Oesophageal Carcinoma
The mainstay of pre-operative staging is endoscopy in combination with endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). Endoscopy provides information regarding distance...
Radiofrequency Ablation of Liver Tumours
Patients with early-stage HCC should be offered surgical therapeutic options of transplantation or resection.3 Transplantation offers a four-year...
Recent Developments in Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Liver
Liver malignancies are among the most common tumors in the world. Although metastatic tumors are the most frequent of the malignant lesions affecting...
Scheduling for Maximum Efficiency in the Practice
Scheduling patients for office visits can be challenging,particularly for a large practice. If the schedule is not managed appropriately, there will...
Scheduling for Maximum Efficiency in the Practice
Customizing the Schedule to the Physician or Mid - level Provider Not every physician’s style can fit easily in the 15- or 30-minute slots that...
Screening Tests for Colorectal Cancer - No Test is Perfect but Any Test is Better than None
A 2005 NEJM article presented evidence that strategies other than colonoscopy would miss 65% of advanced neoplasms in women.5 The US Congress and...
Small bowel obstruction complicating colonoscopy: a case report
Introduction Colonoscopy is a widely used investigative procedure and has a relatively low complication rate. With the advent of the National Health...
Surgery for Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease The Common Sense of Surgical Evidence
Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) affects 15% to 40% of people in Western countries and is increasing in incidence. It is one of the most...
Surgical Management of Gall Bladder Carcinoma
Carcinoma of gall bladder (CaGB) is extremely rare, affecting 7,100 people in the US per year. In the UK in 2002, only 394 new cases of CaGB were ...
The AGA and Future Trends in Gastroenterology Computed Tomography Colonography
Change, sometimes evolutionary and sometimes abrupt, is inevitable in medicine. Change in technology may be especially inevitable, if unpredictable....
The DAVE ProjectA Web-based Digital Atlas of Video Education
While these provided an acceptable, diagnostic-quality reproduction of the procedure, they were not ideally suited to publication, presentation,...
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