Many women grow up dreaming of becoming doctors. Still, after years of studying and training, they have to deal with reality and realize how difficult it is, even today, to be a woman, a doctor, a mother, and a wife at the same time. In some …
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Ludovica Venezia, Nunzia Labarile, Roberta Maselli, Antonio Benedetti, Bruno Annibale, Maria Caterina Parodi, Marco Soncini, Fabiana Zingone
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) such as Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) can profoundly negatively affect a person’s quality of life [ 1 ]. Symptoms such as diarrhea, urgency, pain and fatigue are chronic and can hinder daily …
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Taryn Lores, Antonina Mikocka-Walus, Jane M. Andrews, Subhadra Evans, Kate D. Lynch, Anna Chur-Hansen
A previously healthy 36-year-old male was evaluated in the emergency department with two weeks of left-sided abdominal pain and diarrhea. The pain radiated to his back and was associated with poor oral intake and a 25-pound weight loss. Bowel …
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Kevin Kane, Fernando S. Velayos, Jeffrey K. Lee, Sarah Cherny, Kunal Karia
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a very common malignant tumor in the digestive system, ranking 4th (6.1% of cases) and 2nd (9.2% of deaths) in terms of incidence and mortality, respectively [ 1 ]. Although surgery is currently the main choice of …
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), comprising Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, is a progressive disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The disease is associated with impaired quality of life (QoL), loss …
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N. Lamichhane, N. Melas, V. Bergqvist, N.-P. Ekholm, O. Olén, J. F. Ludvigsson, H. Hjortswang, J. Marsal, C. Eriksson, J. Halfvarson, SWIBREG
Renal failure is a frequent extrahepatic organ failure in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) and its presence and severity is an independent prognostic marker for mortality [ 1 ]. The current definitions of acute kidney injury …
In patients who present with gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB), initial evaluation (including bi-directional endoscopy with esophagogastroduodenoscopy [EGD] and colonoscopy) fails to identify the source of bleeding in 10–20% of cases [ 1 ]. In …
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Sofi Damjanovska, Daniel Karb, Allen Chen, Seunghee Margevicius, Pingfu Fu, Gerard Isenberg
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a condition that develops when stomach content reflux causes troublesome symptoms and/or complications [ 1 ]. GERD demonstrated an increasing incidence rate worldwide in recent years [ 2 ]. Various …
Digestive tract tumors represent a diverse group of malignancies, including esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and colorectal cancer, which exert a significant global health burden [ 1 , 2 ]. Among these, colorectal cancer (CRC) emerges as a …
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Xiangbo Chen, Changxin Chen, Rensong He, Yisen Huang, Yubin Wang
Gastrointestinal (GI) transit time (GITT) is defined as the interval between food ingestion and its evacuation. Recently, research has focused on the association of GITT with health and disease, including typical GI diseases as well as certain …
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Gaku Wagai, Masao Togao, Takashi Kurakawa, Haruka Nishizaki, Jun Otsuka, Yuki Ohta-Takada, Akinobu Kurita, Tomo Suzuki, Koji Kawakami
Chronic digestive conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and disorders of gut–brain interaction (DGBIs), are recognized as burdensome for patients and expensive for healthcare systems [ 1 – 3 ]. The physical and psychosocial demands …
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Brian J. Arizmendi, Meredith R. Craven, Pablo Martinez-Camblor, Lauren K. Tormey, Jessica K. Salwen-Deremer
Cirrhosis, which impacts more than 5 million people in the US, is often under-recognized and suboptimally managed, resulting in high health care costs and preventable deaths [ 1 – 5 ]. However, there are several evidence-based practices that can …
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Heather McCurdy, Anna Nobbe, Dawn Scott, Heather Patton, Timothy R. Morgan, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Vera Yakovchenko, Monica Merante, Sandra Gibson, Carolyn Lamorte, Gyorgy Baffy, George N. Ioannou, Tamar H. Taddei, Karine Rozenberg-Ben-Dror, Jennifer Anwar, Jason A. Dominitz, Shari S. Rogal
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a global disease that is associated with significant morbidity [ 1 ]. Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) has a mortality rate of up to 30% [ 2 ]. In the USA and European countries, the main etiology was gallstones and …
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Lu Wang, Yutang Ren, Ting Xu, Jinting Geng, Ning Yang, Ruifeng Wang
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a common acute abdominal condition. However, the AP in some special groups is still lack of cognition, such as acute pancreatitis in pregnancy (APIP). As a rare and serious complication in pregnancy, the incidence of …
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Xiaowei Tang, Yuan Chen, Shu Huang, Jiao Jiang, Bei Luo, Wensen Ren, Xueqin Zhou, Xiaomin Shi, Wei Zhang, Lei Shi, Xiaolin Zhong, Muhan Lü
Acute pancreatitis is an acute inflammatory condition of the pancreas that has not only local but systemic effects as well. Venous thrombosis is one such complication which can give rise to thrombosis of the peripheral vasculature in the form of …
Gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) is a risky, occasionally life-threatening condition that accounts for an essential emergency admission reason. Despite advances in diagnosis and treatment, mortality and morbidity rates continue to be very high [ 1 …
Gastroparesis (Gp) is a chronic disease characterized by delay in gastric emptying in the absence of mechanical obstruction. Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is an idiopathic disorder characterized by recurrent, stereotypical bouts of vomiting with …
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Scott Bills, Amal Shine, Jane Claire Williams, Prateek Mathur, Archana Kedar, Michael Daniels, Thomas L. Abell
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography(ERCP) is the gold standard for managing cholangiopancreatic diseases [ 1 , 2 ]. Successful common bile duct(CBD) cannulation is a crucial step in performing ERCP. Even among experienced practitioners …
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Shaofei Wang, Bingqing Bai, Sisi Liu, Yuanyuan Fang, Chenyu Zhang, Xinwen Chen, Qiming Huang, Jiren Wang, Jianglong Hong, Yang Li, Zhangwei Xu, Xiaochang Liu, Junjun Bao, Qiao Mei, Rutao Hong
