Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a major American health problem that ranks as the second leading cause of cancer death after lung cancer. In the United States, approximately 143,000 new cases are ...
Similar to recent guidelines (1,2), we used the GRADE (Grades of Recommendation Assessment, Development and Evaluation) system to assess the strengths of the recommendations and the overall ...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States (1) Colonoscopy can prevent CRC by the detection and removal of precancerous lesions. In addition ...
INTRODUCTION This clinical guideline was designed to address colon ischemia (CI) including its definition, epidemiology, risk factors, presentations, methods of diagnosis, and therapeutic ...
Hereditary gastrointestinal (GI) cancer syndromes represent a phenotypically diverse group of disorders that exhibit distinct patterns of inheritance in an individual’s progeny. Over the past few ...
Preamble The writing group was invited by the Practice Parameters Committee and the Board of the Trustees of the American College of Gastroenterology to develop a practice guideline on ...
Bleeding from the small intestine remains a relatively uncommon event, accounting for ˜5–10% of all patients presenting with gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding (1, 2). Known previously as obscure GI ...
Recent population studies suggest that gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is increasing in prevalence, both in the United States and worldwide (1, 2). The diagnosis of GERD is associated with ...
Management of pregnant women with liver disease is a common clinical scenario, and one that can be challenging given the need to consider not only the expectant mother, but also the unborn fetus ...
In the United States, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths for men and women combined (1). Of the estimated 132,700 new cases expected to be diagnosed in 2015 (1), ...
INTRODUCTION Acute overt lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) accounts for ˜20% of all cases of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding, usually leads to hospital admission with invasive diagnostic ...
Introduction Acute diarrheal infection is a leading cause of outpatient visits, hospitalizations, and lost quality of life occurring in both domestic settings and among those traveling ...
