Small Bowel Update. Part I

Update on Small Bowel Endoscopy

While there is not yet sufficient data to tell if any of the recently introduced modalities will be contenders with double-balloon enteroscopy, the next three to four years will no doubt bring many comparative studies that look at safety, distance, patient acceptance and effectiveness at delivering diagnoses and therapy. It is entirely possible that one of these technologies will emerge as the ...

Small bowel review: Normal physiology, part 2.

In the past year there have been many advances in the area of small bowel physiology and pathology and therapy. In preparation for this review, over 1500 papers were assessed. The focus is on presenting clinically useful information for the practising gastroenterologist. Selected important clinical learning points include the following: (1) glucose absorption mediated by SGLT1 is controlled by ...

Practical Lessons from the Small Bowel Bleeding Lesions: A Case Report on Small Bowel Cavernous Hemangioma

Infectious complications after small bowel transplantation in adults: an update.

Between May 1990 and February 1995,29 adult patients underwent small bowel Tx in the Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh. Fifteen patients underwent small bowel transplant (SBTx),8 had small bowel together with liver transplant (SBTx/L), and 6 patients underwent multi-visceral Tx (MY), which included SBTx/L together with other organs. In 11 patients (8 SBTx, 3 MY) Tx of the bowe...

Gastrointestinal Motility, Part 2: Small-Bowel and Colon Transit.

Because of the difficulty often encountered in deciding whether a patient's symptoms originate in the upper or lower gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal transit scintigraphy is a uniquely suited noninvasive, quantitative, and physiologic method of determining whether there is a motility disorder affecting the stomach, small bowel, or colon. Small-bowel and colon transit studies can be perf...