Stomach/Duodenum News

The American College of Gastroenterology has issued a new guideline for the diagnosis and management of gastroparesis, which recently was published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

Patients with symptoms of gastroparesis — including those with diabetic and idiopathic etiologies — demonstrated a prevalence for peripheral neuropathy, according to a study published in BMC Gastroenterology.

Infants exposed to acid suppressant medications did not experience an increased risk for allergen sensitization in early childhood, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Procalcitonin-guided care reduced antibiotic use without increasing the risk for infection among patients with acute pancreatitis compared with standard care, according to research published in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Although a feature in microscopic colitis, gut microbiota dysbiosis was also observed in functional and bile acid diarrhea, indicating fecal microbial changes are not due to the disease itself, researchers noted in BMC Gastroenterology.

Outpatient antibiotic management was safe compared with in-hospital care, with no greater risk for complications or appendectomy, in a subgroup of patients with acute appendicitis, according to research.

Here are Healio’s top 10 peer-tested articles from Digestive Disease Week 2022, which highlight research on restrictive diets, gallstone disease, dog ownership and Crohn’s disease, COVID-19 antibody response and more.

SAN DIEGO — In a Healio video exclusive, Andres Acosta, MD, PhD, outlines research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022 that focused on the relationship between gastric function and the regulation of food intake.

SAN DIEGO — The discovery of SARS-CoV-2 genomes in endoscopy samples of patients who recovered from COVID-19 suggests that the gut serves as a reservoir for the virus, according to research presented at Digestive Disease Week 2022.

In this Healio video exclusive, Neena S. Abraham, MD, MSc (Epi), FACG, of the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, discusses her 25 years of research in cardiogastroenterology and how she used telemedicine to continue patient care during the pandemic.