Even mild liver disease may hamper heart health, finds Cedars-Sinai study Isra Zaman10 Dec 2022 9:15 AM ISTEarlier this year, the American Heart Association (AHA) released a statement that nonalcoholic fatty liver disease-an increasingly common liver...
Hepatic steatosis detection by ultrasound versus MRI proton-density fat fraction Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli9 Dec 2022 8:00 PM ISTLeesburg, VA: According to ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), ultrasound-derived fat fraction (UDFF) is strongly associated with MRI...
KIMS Doctors remove 12 kg polycystic liver from 50-year-old woman Kajal Rajput9 Dec 2022 3:45 PM ISTHyderabad: A liver weighing 12 kg is too preposterous a thought and hard to believe even by the best of medical brains. And if the patient is a woman...
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt may increase risk of acute on chronic liver failure in ascites patients Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli8 Dec 2022 7:45 PM ISTGERMANY: According to research reported in the World Journal of Gastroenterology, Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) placement for...
Endoluminal stenting reduces stoma formation in colorectal cancer with obstruction: Study Medha Baranwal8 Dec 2022 10:00 AM ISTUK: Colorectal cancer is often presented with obstruction that requires urgent, potentially life-saving decompression. For such patients, the...
A healthy lifestyle may prevent more than half of inflammatory bowel disease cases: Study Isra Zaman7 Dec 2022 9:15 AM ISTInflammatory bowel disease, or IBD for short, affects an estimated 3 million adults in the US and another 1.3 million in Europe. And diagnoses have...
Obeticholic acid linked to better transplant-free survival in primary biliary cholangitis: Study Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli6 Dec 2022 10:00 AM ISTUK: As per a study employing individuals from the randomized POISE trial that was published in the journal Gastroenterology, patients suffering from...
Patients undergoing Abdominal Ostomy Surgery at high risk of complications and rehospitalizations Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli6 Dec 2022 9:45 AM ISTPatients undergoing abdominal surgery for ostomy placement have high rates of hospital readmissions and emergency department visits-often involving...
Upadacitinib improves symptoms of ulcerative colitis as early as day one of initiation Jacinthlyn Sylvia4 Dec 2022 7:45 PM ISTA new study published in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology suggests that from day one, upadacitinib 45 mg once daily (QD)...
Peanuts and herbs and spices may positively impact gut microbiome Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli3 Dec 2022 6:00 AM ISTThe human gut microbiome is a collection of trillions of microorganisms that live inside the intestinal tract which can affect nearly all systems of...
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy shows long-term positive outcomes in obese teenagers Jacinthlyn Sylvia2 Dec 2022 7:30 PM ISTLaparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) is found to be a long-lasting weight loss intervention for teenagers, says an article published in Obesity...
GI symptoms in systemic scleroderma unrelated to disease-specific medications Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli30 Nov 2022 8:00 PM ISTNew research presented this week at ACR Convergence 2022, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, found no clear association between...
