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13C-caffeine breath test distinguishes fibrosis in Hep B	31 August 2005

		The 13C-caffeine breath test distinguishes chronic Hep B virus-related fibrosis and detects improvement in liver function in response to long-term lamivudine, reports September's Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

Psychiatric disorders and liver transplant for Wilson's	31 August 2005

		September's Liver Transplantation finds that both hepatic and neuropsychiatric conditions deserve careful neurological evaluation, and cases of severe neurological impairment should contraindicate orthotopic liver transplantation.

Atrophy and intestinal metaplasia with H pylori	31 August 2005

		Atrophy and intestinal metaplasia persist at 7-year follow-up and atrophic body gastritis patients with panatrophic gastritis have a higher risk of neoplastic lesions, finds the latest issue of Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

GastroHep's 5th birthday - past, present and future	31 August 2005

		The longest-running independent website for Gastroenterology provides daily news articles, massive information resources including 847 recent review articles in full, and a rosy future that includes streaming-video and sound-and-vision powerpoint lectures.

Predicting renal function after orthotopic liver transplant	30 August 2005

		Duration of pretransplantation creatinine elevation, but not cause of renal dysfunction predicts renal outcome in orthotopic liver transplantation alone recipients, finds the most recent issue of Liver Transplantation.

Surgical resection in unresectable pancreatic cancer	30 August 2005

		Unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma may be downstaged by chemoradiotherapy to allow for surgical resection, with a median survival comparable to resection for initially resectable pancreatic cancer, finds September's Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Probiotic mixture alleviates IBS symptoms	29 August 2005

		A probiotic mixture is effective in alleviating IBS symptoms, and even a slight symptom reduction could have positive public health consequences, reports September's Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

Lethal hospital bug cases rocket	29 August 2005

		A new strain of C. difficile is difficult to eradicate from the ward, causing an excess number of cases, as well as more severe cases that make patients very ill, reports the BBC.

Transfusion free surgery in liver transplants	26 August 2005

		Preoperative blood augmentation and normovolemic hemodilution provide a safe cushion against operative blood loss, and living donor transplants allow a transfusion-free strategy, reports the latest Journals of the American College of Surgeons.

Genes that confer susceptibility to ulcerative colitis	26 August 2005

		A genetic pattern, formed by recombination of the telomeric fragment of the major histocompatibility complex ancestral 7.1 haplotype, seems to be the most important genetic determinant of susceptibility to ulcerative colitis, reports September's Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.

Staging autoimmune Hepatitis using magnetic resonance	26 August 2005

		Fibrosis is a common feature in autoimmune hepatitis and is often moderate to severe, although this recent study in Radiology found no correlation between fibrosis grade and MELD score.

Probiotics and relapse in pediatric Crohn's	25 August 2005

		A study in the latest Inflammatory Bowel Diseases suggests that Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain GG does not prolong time to relapse in children with Crohn's disease when given as an adjunct to standard therapy.

Patency capsule passage indicates small-bowel patency	25 August 2005

		Painless egestion of an intact patency capsule indicates safety of wireless capsule endoscopy, and a painful passage seems to be associated with a small-bowel stricture and and a probability of surgery, finds September's Endoscopy.

High dose aspirin long-term reduces colorectal cancer	25 August 2005

		Results in this week's JAMA suggest that optimal chemoprevention for colorectal cancer requires long-term use of aspirin doses substantially higher than those recommended for prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Oro-facial granulomatosis is neither Crohn's nor a new IBD	24 August 2005

		The most recent issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases reports that oro-facial granulomatosis with associated intestinal inflammation may represent a separate entity of inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract in response to an unknown antigen.

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