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- Baboon Virus Transmitted Along With Liver Transplant - Reuters
A man who received a baboon liver transplant became infected with baboon cytomegalovirus, a virus that was thought to be species-specific
- Gene Therapy: A Promising Experiment Ends In Tragedy - US News
The tragedy has sparked a fierce debate over the level of acceptable risk in clinical trials
- One Liver Saves Three Patients - AP
Three French patients have received liver transplants thanks to a single donor in a "domino" procedure that a French transplant team is calling a medical first
- Oral Budesonide And Ursodeoxycholic Acid For Treatment Of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis: Results Of A Prospective Double-Blind Trial - Gastroenterology
Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is used for treatment of primary biliary cirrhosis
- Involvement Of Neutrophils And Free Radicals In The Potentiating Effects Of Passive Cigarette Smoking On Inflammatory Bowel Disease In Rats - Gastroenterology
Cigarette smoking is associated with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs), particularly Crohn's disease, in humans
- Cigarette Smoke Aggravates Experimental Colitis In Rats - Gastroenterology
Tobacco smoking has a complex effect on intestinal inflammation, being protective in ulcerative colitis, whereas it aggravates Crohn's disease
- Functional And Ethnic Association Of Allele 2 Of The Interleukin-1 Receptor Antagonist Gene In Ulcerative Colitis - Gastroenterology
The role of the interleukin (IL)-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) in predisposing an individual to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is controversial
- Favoured Liver Disease Treatment Not Necessarily Better Than Placebo - Doctors Guide
Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is the only approved treatment for primary biliary cirrhosis (a liver disease), but its effect on disease progression and survival is uncertain
- No-Mortality Liver Resection For Hepatocellular Carcinoma In Cirrhotic And Noncirrhotic Patients: Is There A Way? A Prospective Analysis Of Our Approach - Archives Of Surgery
Low resectability rates and significant morbidity and mortality rates often make surgery for hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs) unfeasible
- Death After Transplantation Of A Liver From A Donor With Unrecognized Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency - New England Journal Of Medicine
Ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency is the most common inherited disorder of the urea cycle. It is an X-linked disease that can range in severity from hyperammonemic coma in neonates to the absence of symptoms in adults. Liver transplantation is an effective treatment for patients with this disease. However, this disease has another implication for liver transplantation, as demonstrated by the following case
- Panc CA + Liver Mets + PET - American Journal Of Gastroenterology
Pancreatic cancer is a highly invasive tumor that tends to present late in the course of the disease and has a resultant poor prognosis. Vascular invasion and distant metastases preclude curative resection. Conventional imaging modalities at times fail to identify liver metastases in the pre-operative period
- Endoscopic Management Of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Less Is Better! - American Journal Of Gastroenterology
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease manifested by fibrosing inflammation of both the intrahepatic and the extrahepatic biliary tree. Most patients in the United States have associated inflammatory bowel disease. Several theories have been advanced to explain the pathogenesis of PSC; however, no clear mechanism or etiology has been identified
- Mesenteric Blood Flow Is Related To Disease Activity And Risk Of Relapse In Ulcerative Colitis: A Prospective Follow Up Study - Gut
The diagnostic significance of increased splanchnic blood flow in ulcerative colitis is unclear. This prospective study was therefore undertaken to define the role of Doppler sonography in the assessment of disease activity and in the prediction of early relapse
- Restorative Proctocolectomy For Distal Ulcerative Colitis - Gut
Chronic distal colitis may cause troublesome symptoms and alter quality of life. When medical treatment fails to control symptoms, patients and doctors are often reluctant to consider surgical resection because of the relatively small portion of the large bowel affected by the disease
- Use Of Octogenarian Livers Safely Expands The Donor Pool - Transplantation
The increasing number of recipients on the waiting list for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and the scarcity of donors contribute to recipient pretransplantation mortality. One important measure to increase the donor liver pool would be to accept the previously discarded donors who are more than 80 years old
- The Effect Of Ursodeoxycholic Acid On The Florid Duct Lesion Of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis - Hepatology
The frequency with which florid duct lesions are seen in needle-biopsy specimens of the liver was assessed in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) enrolled in a 2-year randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) versus placebo
- Assessing Surgical Risk in Patients With Liver Disease - Patients with liver disease who require surgery are at greater risk for surgical and anesthesia related complications than those with a healthy liver.
- Late Complications in Patients Cured of Cancer: Risks from Hepatitis C - Hepatitis C acquired through transfusion is a growing risk to a subgroup of cured cancer patients.
- Neutrophil Impairment Proposed As Cause of Crohn's Disease - While current theories of the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease suggest a hyperactive immune response, two researchers from Missouri propose instead that impaired mucosal neutrophil function might underlie the disease.
- FDA Approves Novel Robotic Surgical System - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for marketing a robotic device designed to assist surgeons performing laparoscopic gall bladder and reflux surgery.
- Irritable Bowel Symptoms May Herald Inflammatory Enteric Neuropathy - Patients who initially present with symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome may develop chronic pseudo-obstruction, apparently mediated by autoimmune attack on the enteric nervous system, according to Dr. Jackie D. Wood of Ohio State University, in Columbus.
All below need to be evaluated to determine if they should be kept or not--or maybe narrowed down to another link (wanna help?)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Medical Resources
Healingwell.com/IBS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GASTROENTEROLOGY WEB
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
American College of Gastroenterology
St. Luke's Medical Hospital
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Crohn's and Colitis
The IBS Page: Irritable Bowel Syndrome Web Sites
Johns Hopkins Magazine
Article on IBS
Wakingup.net
Online Stress Management and Personal Growth Community
AcidReflux.org
Here you will find the latest up to date information on many gastro-intestinal disorders.