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Paediatric endoscopy is a common but complex procedure requiring careful preparation Parents should be aware of key details ...

None required intervention. One patient with gastritis by endoscopy died from disseminated (non-upper GI) malignant disease 2 months after endoscopy. Follow up on the remaining patients was ...

histopathological analysis of biopsy pots, rapid urease tests and prescriptions. Non-direct cost variables involved costs of the subsequent episodes of care arranged until one year as a result of the ...

Accumulating evidence is pointing to the upper ... initial endoscopy. The mean age at endoscopy was 52.3 years. In the second nested subgroup, composed of those without MD on initial biopsy ...

Advanced gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy (AGE) is a specialized field within gastroenterology ... exponential growth in the field of AGE with new and unique diagnostic and therapeutic techniques such ...

All gastroenterologists are qualified to perform colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, and upper GI endoscopy. Additional training may be needed to perform procedures used to treat gallbladder, liver, and ...

Gastrointestinal problems are common ... patients with no history of Parkinson’s and who had had an upper endoscopy with biopsy between 2000 and 2005. Most were between the ages of 50 and ...

Small-bowel biopsy samples should be taken at OGD if coeliac serology was positive or not ... All patients (other than menstruating women) with IDA and no obvious cause should have both an upper GI ...

However, in the research done so far, the desired accuracy value could not be attained. In this study, the approach of segmenting GI tract regions in Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) scans was used ...

Research shows that routine risk assessment of patients with upper GI bleeding could reduce healthcare costs, primarily through fewer hospital admissions. Despite studies that prove the benefits of ...

The approach to transfusion for patients with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding has varied over the years. For a time, the focus was to avoid or delay transfusions because of the possibility ...