Monthly Archives: July 2017
Sugar, Sugar . . . Not So Sweet for the Liver
In this issue of Gastroenterology, Schwarz et al1 report on the “Impact of Dietary Fructose Restriction on Liver Fat, De Novo Lipogenesis and Insulin Kinetics in Children with Obesity.” There are 3 recent developments important to the context and … Continue reading
Association Between Concentrations of Hemoglobin Determined by Fecal Immunochemical Tests and Long-term Development of Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia
Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening using quantitative fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) is rapidly gaining ground worldwide. FITs are invariably used in a dichotomous manner using pre-specified cut-off values. To optimize FIT-based screening programs, w… Continue reading
Genomic and Epigenomic Aberrations in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Implications for Patients
Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is a common malignancy without effective therapy. The exomes of more than 600 ESCCs have been sequenced in the last 4 years, and numerous key aberrations have been identified1-4. Recently, researchers reported … Continue reading
Efficacy and Safety of Relamorelin in Diabetics with Symptoms of Gastroparesis:A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study
Gastroparesis is a complication of diabetes with few treatment options. Relamorelin (also called RM-131) is a selective, prokinetic agonist of ghrelin. We aimed to evaluate efficacy of relamorelin on symptoms and gastric emptying (GE) in a 12-week, pha… Continue reading
Carving Out a Place for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection
The larger the polyp, the greater the cancer risk. Among polyps >20 mm in size, the risk may exceed 10%.1 Although some polyps portray overt signs of cancer through their pit pattern or a depressed morphology,2,3 others are covert without such worrisome characteristics. Cancers with minimal invasion into the submucosa can be removed completely by endoscopic resection and, in the absence of lymphovascular invasion or poor differentiation, for almost all complete resection equates to cure.4 To prove a healthy margin and confirm complete resection, the polyp has to be removed in 1 piece (en bloc). Continue reading
Proton Pump Inhibitors and Chronic Kidney Disease: Causation or Another False Alarm?
In this issue of Gastroenterology Klatte et al1 report an association of chronic kidney disease with proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use. This paper adds to the large number of observational studies suggesting an association of PPIs with different conditi… Continue reading
Sugar, Sugar . . . Not So Sweet for the Liver
In this issue of Gastroenterology, Schwarz et al1 report on the “Impact of Dietary Fructose Restriction on Liver Fat, De Novo Lipogenesis and Insulin Kinetics in Children with Obesity.” There are 3 recent developments important to the context and … Continue reading
Tofacitinib Is the Right OCTAVE for Ulcerative Colitis
Sandborn W, Su C, Sands BE, et al. Tofacitinib as Induction and Maintenance Therapy for Ulcerative Colitis. N Engl J Med 2017;376:2017;1723-1736. Continue reading
Clinical Implications of Low-grade Dysplasia
Ten Hove JR, et al. Clinical implications of low grade dysplasia found during inflammatory bowel disease surveillance: a retrospective study comparing chromoendoscopy and white-light endoscopy. Endoscopy 2017;49:161-168. Continue reading
Public–Private Partnership: Targeting Real-World Data for Hepatitis C Direct-Acting Antivirals
The era of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has transformed the treatment landscape for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Primarily this is due to the approval of multiple DAAs that are highly efficacious with improved safety profiles that beca… Continue reading