November JC – Hot Topic – Microbiome
Alison Jazwinski presented a paper from Gastroenterology by Saulnier et al (PMID: 21741921) describing differences in the microbiome between children with irritable bowel syndrome and healthy controls. While there was no indication of small bowel overgrowth in children with IBD, this study indicated that amounts of certain populations of bacteria (such as Haemophilus, which represented 0.07% […]
November JC – Pancreas
George Philips presented a paper on the use of lithotripsy for the treatment of pancreatic stones by Milovic et al (PMID: 21981815). This was a series of 32 patients who had failed ERCP and were treated with lithotripsy at one German center between 2000 and 2003. Patients underwent a median of four sessions of lithotripsy, […]
