Digestive diseases updates from Mayo Clinic

Highlights of some new developments and trends in medical practice at Mayo Clinic

April 2013

• Technically challenging surgery is better for kids
• NIH funds alcoholic hepatitis research
• Celiac disease is a disease for the masses
• Double-balloon enteroscopy turns the corner for altered anatomy patients

February 2013

• Reliability of esophageal studies depends on experience
• The future of colorectal cancer screening
• IBD drugs in pregnancy: Risks and benefits
• Mayo patients do well before and after liver transplant

December 2012

• A better way to treat pancreatic cancer pain
• Pushing the boundaries of cross-sectional imaging
• The unexpected evolution of NOTES
• Split-dose bowel prep improves all quality markers for colonoscopy

October 2012

• The best test is the one that gets done
• Quick, inexpensive and a 90 percent cure rate
• Broadening the horizon on IBS
• Challenging two decades of chemoradiation
• A promising technique beset by challenges

August 2012

• The water method of colonoscopy: Few risks, many rewards
• Best practices for a rare disorder
• High anxiety

May 2012

• In vivo diagnosis and UC: A good fit?
• Enhanced imaging fails to shine
• Pig skin heals forgotten patients
• Clinical trials aid PSC diagnosis and treatment

April 2012

• An expanding pipeline for IBD drugs
• Chronic constipation in older patients: An educational approach
• After long negotiations, striking a bargain on AIP criteria
• New technologies help overcome limitations of surveillance endoscopy
• Mayo Clinic offers newly approved treatment for GERD

February 2012

• When chest pain doesn't come from the heart
• Rating the severity of a little-studied disease
• Early life trauma: A predictor of IBS
• Understanding trends in GERD diagnosis
• New options for patients with bile duct cancer
• Management of IBD in Pregnancy — Grand Rounds
• The Liver in Heart Disease & Grand Rounds

December 2011

• Capsule endoscopy: Benefits and limitations
• One incision, multiple benefits
• Does the cure for obesity lie in the gut?
• HCV therapy changes course

October 2011

• Surgery for liver-limited metastases of colorectal cancer: Considerations and advances
• Endoscopic management of dysplasia and early cancer in Barrett's esophagus
• Chromoendoscopy for cancer surveillance in UC
• Clinical trial to test efficacy of IV hemin for gastroparesis
• Two families, one gene: Tracking the EPCAM deletion in Lynch syndrome

August 2011

• Enhanced recovery pathway: Rethinking pre- and postoperative surgical care for colorectal patients
• Endoscopic ultrasound: New diagnostic and therapeutic applications
• Eosinophilic esophagitis: Assessing disease activity and response to medical management
• Endoscopic management of large, flat colorectal polyps
• Use of a fully covered self-expandable metal stent for the treatment of benign esophageal diseases
• "Doctor, It Must Be Celiac Disease": Clinical Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment — Grand Rounds
• Microbes and Obesity: A Look at the World Within — Grand Rounds