ALLMedicine™ Gastric Outlet Obstruction Center

Jul 29th, 2021 - Acute oesophageal necrosis is a rare cause of haematemesis associated with high mortality and morbidity in elderly patients with multiple comorbidities. Acute oesophageal necrosis is thought to be caused by a combination of hypoperfusion, vascular...

Jul 29th, 2021 - Gastric dysplasia signifies the presence of atypical cells in the gastric mucosa, which have not invaded beyond the lamina propria, and it rarely leads to tissue growth large enough to cause gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) to the gastric contents...

Jun 2nd, 2021 - Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal gastrointestinal tumor entities. Surgery is the only chance for cure; however, only a minority of patients can be offered this option. Due to the anatomic location of the gland, tumor-related problems an...

May 29th, 2021 - The field of therapeutic endoscopy has seen many recent advancements. One such emerging field is the use of lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS). Although a few LAMS have been developed, the most commonly reviewed and the only Food and Drug Administ...

May 28th, 2021 - The aim of this article is to review the different treatment options for malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) and compare their safety and efficacy. We describe the history and evolution of gastrojejunostomy (GJ), endoscopic stenting and end...

Nov 11th, 2020 - This American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for the endoscopic management of gastric outlet obstruction (GOO). We applied the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evalua...

Apr 10th, 2020 - In recent years, Enteral Stenting (ES) has commonly been used as the first line management of unresectable malignant gastric outlet obstruction. On the other hand, Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) is the most recently d...

Dec 13th, 2019 - In recent years, DSEMSs have provided an attractive alternative to surgery for palliation of malignant gastric outlet obstruction. Several studies have assessed the clinical and technical success rates of DSEMS for malignant gastroduodenal obstruc...

Dec 13th, 2019 - This would be a prospective multi-centred double-blinded randomised controlled study including all patients suffering from malignant gastric outlet obstruction due unresectable primary gastro-duodenal or pancreatico-biliary malignancies. Five inte...

Oct 2nd, 2018 - The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is dismal, with a five-year survival rate of 4.9%. Current treatment options include surgical resection, chemotherapy and radiation. Only 15% percent of pancreatic cancers are considered resectable at the time o...

Aug 3rd, 2018 - Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma will be screened by pancreatic protocol cross-sectional imaging to see if they have locally advanced unresectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Patients with unresectable disease will undergo at l...

Dec 8th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Covered and uncovered self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) for malignant gastric outlet obstruction show only minor differences, suggests a randomized trial in Japan. U.S. experts agree, noting that covered stents are no...

Aug 6th, 2019 - Surgery represents the mainstay of treatment for small-bowel adenocarcinoma (SBA), but the value of adjuvant therapy remains unproven, according to a new clinical guideline from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Segmental resection...

Jun 3rd, 2019 - Multiple myeloma An abdominal CT scan (Figure D) showed gastric and whole intestinal wall thickening of up to 2 cm. Pathology (Figure E) demonstrated that diffuse plasmacytoid cells, eosinophilic granulocytes, and lymphocytes infiltrated into the.

May 1st, 2019 - A 72-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with progressive nausea and vomiting. One week earlier, she developed early satiety and nausea with vomiting after eating solid food.

Feb 1st, 2018 - Answer: B Rationale Hypergastrinemia is normally a physiologic response to hypochlorhydria. When hypergastrinemia occurs in the setting of acidic gastric pH, it is considered inappropriate.