Saline-immersion therapeutic endoscopy (SITE): An evolution of underwater endoscopic lesion resection.
Histological healing beyond endoscopic healing in ulcerative colitis: Shall we target the "ultra-deep" remission?
E-health in inflammatory bowel diseases: More challenges than opportunities?
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease need close monitoring for an optimal disease management. For this, e-health technologies are promising tools. But the current evidence for the implementation of e-health in inflammatory bowel disease is weak. For this a critical evaluation of the existing evidence is presented. Furthermore some essential con...
Diagnosis and Endoscopic Management of Barrett's Esophagus: an Italian Experts' Opinion based document.
The generated statements highlight the Italian contribution to the European Position Statement of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. The Italian statements preserve peculiarities when dealing with the endoscopic management of BE and wishes to be considered as a contribution for the care of BE patients even with a low risk of progre...
Acute histological inflammatory activity is associated with clinical relapse in patients with ulcerative colitis in clin...
In UC patients in clinical and endoscopic remission, the presence of AHA is a risk factor for clinical relapse.
Life threatening hemobilia after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
Arterial vascular complication from endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is exceedingly rare. This report describes a life threatening hemobilia, from a pseudoaneurysm of the right hepatic artery (RHA), which occurred post ERCP. The pseudoaneurysm and the active bleed were diagnosed by selective angiography of the RHA, and successf...
Symptoms of anxiety and depression are independently associated with inflammatory bowel disease-related disability.
Symptoms of anxiety and depression were common in this Asian cohort of IBD and were strongly associated with IBD-related disability. Recognizing psychological issues contributing to disability in IBD is important to ensure holistic care and appropriate treatment.
Early closure of fistula using neo-adjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy in locally advanced anal cancer.
...Neo-adjuvant intra-arterial chemotherapy combined to chemoradiation resulted in a high rate of fistulas closure and long-term control of locally advanced anal cancer. This interesting approach in the treatment of fistulised anal cancer, needs a prospective study before being considered a new standard strategy.
IgG3 subclass: A possible trigger of mixed cryoglobulin cascade in hepatitis C virus chronic infection.
HCV is a hepatotropic and lymphotropic virus and is the most frequent cause of "benign" mono-oligoclonal B-lymphocyte proliferation, observed in mixed cryoglobulinemia (MC). The study aims to investigate the presence, prevalence and characteristics of the subclasses of cryoglobulins in HCV-patients to look for a relationship with MC. Fifty HCV-infe...
A new index predicts early allograft dysfunction following living donor liver transplantation: A propensity score analys...
...The postoperative AGR is a practical index for predicting early allograft dysfunction after living donor liver transplantation.
