We hope that you will join us at GI Journal Club in April for discussion of an interesting group of recent articles.
Matt Rein will present an IBD article by Weber at al. Validation of a CT-derived method for osteoporosis screening in IBD patients undergoing contrast-enhanced CT enterography. Am J Gastro. 109: 401-8. 2014. PMID 24445572.
There is another IBD paper of interest that will be mentioned by Melek J et al. Meta-analysis and systematic review of controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of medical therapies used for low BMD in patients with IBD. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 12: 32-44. 2014. PMID 23981521.
Ivan Harnden will present the biliary article by the group at MUSC, Romagnuolo J et al. Can patient and pain characteristics predict manometric sphincter of oddi dysfunction in patients with clinically suspected sphincter of oddi dysfunction? GIE. 79: 765-772. 2014. PMID 24472759.
Jeff Basile will present the hot topic article on stool DNA testing by Imperiale TF et al. Multitarget Stool DNA Testing for Colorectal-Cancer Screening. NEJM. 370: 1287-1297. 2014. PMID 24645800.
There is an editorial by Doug Robertson and Jason Dominitz NEJM. 370: 1350-1351. 2014. PMID 24625801.
See you on Tuesday.
