Gastroenterological Endoscopy

Management of Antithrombotic Therapy for Gastroenterological Endoscopy from a Cardio-Cerebrovascular Physician's Point of View

Periprocedural management of antithrombotics for gastroenterological endoscopy is a common clinical issue. To decide how to manage the use of antithrombotics in patients undergoing endoscopy, the risk for hemorrhage and thromboembolism during the procedure must be considered. For low-risk procedures, no adjustments in antithrombotics are needed. For high-risk procedures with a low thromboemboli...

Migration of biomaterials used in gastroenterological surgery.

UNLABELLED Mesh biomaterials have become the standard in the treatment of hernias, regardless the location. In addition to the obvious advantages of the methods based on implantable biomaterials, one should be aware of the possible complications, such as their migration to the abdominal organs. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group comprised patients operated at the Department of General, Gast...

American Gastroenterological Association technical review on constipation.

Learning Pit Pattern Concepts for Gastroenterological Training

In this article, we propose an approach to learn the characteristics of colonic mucosal surface structures, the so called pit patterns, commonly observed during high-magnification colonoscopy. Since the discrimination of the pit pattern types usually requires an experienced physician, an interesting question is whether we can automatically find a collection of images which most typically show a...

Estimating medical costs of gastroenterological diseases.

AIM To estimate the direct medical costs of gastroenterological diseases within the universal health insurance program among the population of local residents in Taiwan. METHODS The data sources were the first 4 cohort datasets of 200,000 people from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taipei. The ambulatory, inpatient and pharmacy claims of the cohort in 2001 were analyzed. Be...