2019 · Podcast

GI Pearls – April 2019 – Episode 31 Gastroenterology Literature Review

Show Notes for April 2019 – Episode 31

  1. Prediction of individuals at high absolute risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – GIE
  2. Updates on Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia – Digestive Diseases Sci
  3. Thermal ablation of mucosal defect margins reduces adenoma recurrence after colonic EMR – Gastro
  4. Transfusion Strategies for Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding – NEJM 
  5. Effect of restrictive versus liberal transfusion strategies on outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease – BMJ 
  6. Outcomes following restrictive or liberal red blood cell transfusion in patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding – AP&T
  7. Predicting the Course of Disease in Hospitalized  Patients With Acute Severe Ulcerative Colitis – IBD
  8. Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Is Superior to  Fidaxomicin for Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Gastro
  9. Hepatocellular Carcinoma – NEJM
  10. Non-invasive assessment of liver disease in patient with NAFLD. – Gastroenterology
  11. No association between pseudopolyps and colorectal neoplasia in patients with IBD – Gastro 
  12. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty versus laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: A case matched study. – GIE
  13. Glucocorticosteroids for people with alcoholic hepatitis. –  Cochrane Database Syst Rev.
  14. Switching between biologics and biosimilar in IBD – CGH
  15. Preventive medicine in IBD – CGH