Daily Archives: January 17, 2018

We thank the authors of the letter to the editor for their comments. When analyzing a fixed cohort, consisting of invitees eligible at the start of the screening program, colorectal cancer (CRC) detection will peak in the first round and be lower in su… Continue reading →

Question: A 21-year-old woman of Indian descent presented with subacute left upper quadrant abdominal pain. The pain was sharp, severe, and elicited by food. She denied diarrhea, constipation, and weight loss. Her past medical history was significant f… Continue reading →

Question: A 45-year-old man with no significant medical history except for vague intermittent abdominal pain was referred for an endoscopic second opinion after previous colonoscopy had been pertinent for multiple segmental submucosal lesions. Previou… Continue reading →

Question: A 23-year-old woman with Budd-Chiari syndrome in treatment with warfarin was admitted to our unit because of the persistence of fever, severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, and marked weight loss. Her medical history included recurrent oral and ge… Continue reading →

We read with interest the recent systematic review and meta-analysis of anticoagulation for portal vein thrombosis (PVT) for individuals with cirrhosis from Loffredo et al.1 PVT is a frequent complication of cirrhosis and the sequelae can include mese… Continue reading →

Question: A 60-year-old Caucasian man was referred to our department for restaging of cancer of unknown primary syndrome with peritoneal carcinosis (confirmed by diagnostic laparoscopy), which had been diagnosed 8 months before. The patient had already… Continue reading →

We believe that some further comment would be appropriate about the interesting systematic review and meta-analysis on the effects of anticoagulants in patients with cirrhosis and portal vein thrombosis (PVT), recently published in Gastroenterology.1 O… Continue reading →

The trial by Pinto-Sanchez et al1 published in a recent issue of Gastroenterology reports a relationship between probiotic Bifidobacterium longum NCC3001 and a decrease in depression scores in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). IBS is consi… Continue reading →