The American journal of gastroenterology
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Available data regarding whether appendicectomy performed after the onset of ulcerative colitis can modulate its clinical course are currently limited. This study aimed at addressing this issue. ⋯ This case series, the largest reported so far, provides rationale for controlled trials to properly evaluate the possible role of appendicectomy in the treatment of ulcerative proctitis.
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Am. J. Gastroenterol. · Oct 2009
NOTES and other emerging trends in gastrointestinal endoscopy and surgery: the change that we need and the change that is real.
In this inaugural year of a historic presidency, gastroenterologists and gastrointestinal surgeons may well want to turn their attention to more immediate transformative events that have the potential to revolutionize their own practice in the near future. The most visible and, perhaps, controversial of these is natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), but other equally important changes are emerging as investigators around the globe vie with one another in the demonstration of increasingly audacious procedures. ⋯ However, by far the most common attitude among gastroenterologists toward these changes is one of indifference. In this piece, we discuss the circumstances that led to the development of NOTES and other innovative procedures, the peril that lies in ignoring them, and the true promise that they hold for our specialties.