Clinical trial: a randomized trial of early endoscopy, Helicobacter pylori testing and empirical therapy for the management of dyspepsia in primary care
Early endoscopy, Helicobacter pylori eradication, and empirical acid suppression are commonly used dyspepsia management strategies. 'Test and treat' w...
Push enteroscopy for obscure gastrointestinal bleeding yields a high incidence of proximal lesions within reach of a standard endoscope
Researchers looked at 95 patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding. A suspected source of bleeding was found in 39 of 95 patients. 64% of the su...
Helicobacter pylori "test and treat" or endoscopy for managing dyspepsia: an individual patient data meta-analysis
Helicobacter pylori "test and treat" has been recommended for the management of young dyspeptic patients without alarm symptoms. None of these trials...
Is routine sedation or topical pharyngeal anesthesia beneficial during upper endoscopy?
The benefits of routinely administered sedative medication or topical pharyngeal anesthesia are controversial. The aim of this study was to clarify th...
A randomised clinical trial of transnasal endoscopy versus fluoroscopy for the placement of nasojejunal feeding tubes in patients with severe acute pancreatitis
100 patients with severe acute pancreatitis were randomized to receive NJTs by transnasal endoscopy or fluoroscopy. The successful placement was confi...
The safety and sensitivity of a telemetric capsule to monitor gastrointestinal hydrogen production in vivo in healthy subjects: a pilot trial comparison to concurrent breath analysis
Intestinal gases are currently used for the diagnosis of disorders including small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and carbohydrate malabsorption. The...
Second-generation colon capsule endoscopy vs. colonoscopy in pediatric ulcerative colitis: a pilot study
Comes to town of Waukesha, Wisconsin, where the town's goal is to get the city to get back on track. The town's history is riddled with controversy, b...
The efficacy comparison of carvedilol plus endoscopic variceal ligation and traditional, nonselective β-blockers plus endoscopic variceal ligation in cirrhosis patients for the prevention of variceal rebleeding: a meta-analysis
Carvedilol was more efficacious than traditional NSBBs in decreasing the variceal rebleeding rate [odds ratio (OR): 0.75; 95% confidence interval (CI:...
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