The latest advancements in upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancer treatment include early detection tools, immunotherapy, ...

A paper in the British Journal of Surgery indicates that early-onset gastrointestinal cancer rates are rising dramatically ...

A combined colonoscopy and endoscopy lets a doctor examine your upper and lower gastrointestinal tract, all in one procedure. Doctors use a combined colonoscopy and endoscopy to help diagnose the ...

For patients presenting with GERD symptoms, the ASGE recommends upper endoscopy, particularly in those exhibiting alarm symptoms such as dysphagia, weight loss, or gastrointestinal bleeding.

There was an average of five endoscopists and three to seven endoscopy centers per state. Most centers perform 11–12 upper and four to five lower GI endoscopies per week, respectively, with a ...

The patients were discharged on POD2 after the upper GI tract procedure and on POD1 after the lower GI tract procedure. The first visit at an outpatient clinic was scheduled 4 weeks after the ...

However, the primary diagnostic tool, upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, is associated with numerous limitations, including invasiveness, sampling errors, and high healthcare costs.

A total of 9350 patients (mean age at endoscopy, 52.3; men, 55.4%; White, 73.7%) were included in the analysis, of whom 2337 had mucosal damage and 7013 did not.

Investigators evaluated 9,350 people who had an upper endoscopy with biopsy between January 2000 and December 2005 in the Mass General Brigham system. They matched study participants with MD to ...

Gastrointestinal (GI) mucosal damage seen on upper endoscopy was tied to a 76% higher risk of a subsequent Parkinson's disease diagnosis, a retrospective cohort study showed. Over an average ...

Bleeding from an upper GI endoscopy is usually minor and you may not need any treatment. If you bleed during your colonoscopy, the doctor may be able to treat it during the procedure.

Upper GI endoscopy in subjects with positive fecal occult blood test undergoing colonoscopy: Systematic review and meta-analysis November 9, 2023, 6:43 PM IST Dr Prateek Sharma in Sharma Digest ...