IBD & Intestinal Disorders
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Data derail dogma of elective diverticulitis surgery
Key clinical point: As recurrence is very rare, conservative nonoperative treatment should be considered first.Major finding: The 5-year...
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Clonidine no use in fecal incontinence
Key clinical point: Reconsider prescribing clonidine for fecal incontinence.Major finding: After 4 weeks of clonidine, patients with fecal...
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Validated patient-reported outcomes needed for inflammatory bowel disease
Key clinical point: Clinicians should begin to develop and use validated, self-administered questionnaires with items that are generated solely by...
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Sacral nerve stimulation reduced irritable bowel symptoms
Major finding: Median symptom scores worsened by 12 points between months when the stimulator was on and then off and improved by 18 points...
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Linaclotide effective even in severe IBS
Major finding: Up to 61% of linaclotide-treated patients with severe irritable bowel symptoms had adequate relief by 12 weeks, compared with 32%...
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Most health care–associated infections aren’t device associated
Major finding: An estimated 648,000 inpatients at U.S. acute care hospitals had approximately 721,800 health care–associated infections in 2011,...
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Antibiotics may contribute to high pediatric C. difficile infection rate
Major Finding: Seventy-one percent of 944 pediatric C. difficile infections were community associated with the highest incidence among 1-year-old...
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Aim for deep remission, high troughs in Crohn’s
Major finding: Deep remission in Crohn’s disease is a novel and useful treatment target; reaching it may depend on monitoring blood levels of the...