Interventional Endoscopy News

A patient navigation program significantly improved the odds that people would get a colonoscopy after receiving an abnormal fecal immunochemical test result, according to a study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Adults who undergo Roux-en-Y gastric bypass are more likely to lose 50% or more of their excess body weight than those who undergo sleeve gastrectomy or gastric banding, according to data from the By-Band-Sleeve randomized controlled trial.

The AGA reported that it could not issue a recommendation for or against the use of computer-aided detection in colonoscopy due to “very low certainty of evidence” and “the close tradeoff between the desirable and undesirable effects.”

The ACG has released its first guidance for gastric premalignant conditions, such as atrophic gastritis, gastric intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia, in sync with surveillance recommendations established for the colon and esophagus.

Use of an automatic quality control system during routine colonoscopy increased adenoma detection rate among low- and medium-level detectors in China, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

The U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer has released updated guidance establishing a “reasonable benchmark” for the quality of bowel preparation prior to a colonoscopy exam.

In this podcast episode, Prateek Sharma, MD, about how program directors can help shepherd GI fellows into clinical research spaces, providing quality exams for upper endoscopy and more.

Metabolic surgery significantly lowered risk for major adverse liver outcomes vs. nonsurgical management among patients with obesity and compensated cirrhosis from metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, according to study data.

Among populations with low adherence to colorectal cancer screening, annual fecal immunochemical testing was the cheapest and most effective noninvasive screening method, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.