A total of 16.4% of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experience fecal incontinence, according to a study published in Digestive and Liver Disease. For the analysis, researchers enrolled 319 patients with IBD from Nancy University Hospital in France. Study participants were screened for fecal incontinence using a nonvalidated questionnaire, which included the Wexner score and Vaizey score for measuring severity of fecal incontinence and its effect on QOL.
Author: Praveen Suthrum
The Digestive Health Physicians Association has named Latha Alaparthi, MD, FACG, AGAF, its first female president and chair of the board of directors. She previously served as the organization’s vice president. Alaparthi, who directs committee operations at PACT Gastroenterology Center in Hamden, Connecticut, will work with the Digestive Health Physicians Association (DHPA) executive committee to advance the organization’s health policy efforts of promoting and preserving financially accessible care in the independent gastroenterological medical practice setting.
Almost all benign polyps can be removed endoscopically, many complications are manageable in the moment, and patients need to know what to do after a polypectomy in terms of diet, exam results and follow-up. At the 2021 annual meeting of the New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Jerome Waye, MD, an emeritus professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City, shared these observations and more he has learned in his 50 years managing polyps.
April 01, 2022 – A machine-learning algorithm was able to provide high-risk patients who missed a colonoscopy with information regarding the type of treatment needed, according to a study conducted by Geisinger and Medial EarlySign. Geisinger, which includes 10 hospital campuses, a health plan that cares for more than 500,000 members, a research Institute and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, worked with software company Medial EarlySign to study the algorithm. Findings were published in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery.
It’s easy to mix up irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) because the names sound very similar, and some people with IBD can also have IBS. It gets even more complicated when Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) gets added to the mix. While all three can have some similar symptoms, these gastrointestinal disorders are vastly different medical conditions. Due to the similarities and sometimes overlap of these disease states, understanding the characteristics of each is critical to determine the best diagnosis and treatment plan. Read on to understand the differences between IBS, IBD and SIBO. Plus, discover…
Asaf Kraus, founder and CEO of Dieta Health, suffers from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a dreadful, albeit non-fatal disease that is notoriously difficult to treat. In 2017, Kraus was employed as a data scientist for Uber when he participated in a clinical trial for experimental IBS treatment. As a participant in the trial he was required to peer at, remember, and subjectively classify his stool on the Bristol Scale, a tool gastroenterologists use to assess human stool, a.k.a poop, based on its shape and how formed or loose it is, to determine how effective an IBS treatment is for a particular…
While disposable electronic gastroscopes were comparable to reusable gastroscopes for capturing images, the image quality was lower and the operating time was longer, a randomized non-inferiority trial in China found. In an analysis involving 110 patients, both types of gastroscopes had a 100% success rate for capturing routine anatomical images, which met criteria for non-inferiority (margin of -8%), reported Peng Li, MD, of the Beijing Friendship Hospital in China, and colleagues, writing in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
As supply and labor costs rise and reimbursements decline, many physicians are flocking to employment models for compensation stability. Hospital and corporate employment can make it easier for physicians to secure referrals and payer and supply contracts but lack the autonomy many leaders say is central to patient care. “Small private practices give physicians the ability to provide the best care for their patients and to adapt to changes quickly and effectively,” Joseph Anderson, MD, professor of medicine at Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, N.H., told Becker’s. “Small private practices are the lifeblood of U.S. medicine, and their ability…
AGA has released a new Clinical Practice Update providing best practice advice on how to approach de-prescribing proton pump inhibitors (PPI) in ambulatory patients. CLINICAL PRACTICE ADVICE All patients taking a PPI should have a regular review of the ongoing indications for use and documentation of that indication. This review should be the responsibility of the patient’s primary care provider. All patients without a definitive indication for chronic PPI should be considered for trial of de-prescribing.
MIAMI — An informal Twitter poll showed that women want more representation in leadership and to close the gender wage gap, Maria T. Abreu, MD, director of the Crohn’s and Colitis Center at the University of Miami, said in a Healio video exclusive. “The future is women in gastroenterology, and I felt it was important to do research and figure out what it is that women want, what do we want the future to be,” Abreu, a presenter at the Scrubs & Heels Summit 2022, said.