For our last GI journal club of this academic year, we’ll meet this Tuesday, June 19th, 2012 in the Tyor Conference room at 5PM. Please plan to join us as we review the following articles:
Tony Tran will review an IBD paper by Ignjatovic et al entitled: Narrow Band Imaging for Detection of Dysplasia in Colitis: A Randomized Controlled Trial from the Annals of Internal medicine. This paper can be found using the link through ACG to the June 2012 journal: http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v107/n6/full/ajg201267a.html
Cristal Brown will review the Advanced Therapeutics paper by Hotta et al entitled: A multicenter, prospective trial of total colonoscopy using a short double-balloon endoscope in patients with previous incomplete colonoscopy from GIE. This paper can be found through PubMed using the PMID: 22284085.
Matt Rein will review the “hot topic” by Zalis et al entitled: Diagnostic accuracy of laxative-free computed tomographic colonography for detection of adenomatous polyps in asymptomatic adults: a prospective evaluation from the Annals of Internal medicine. This paper can be found through PubMed using the PMID: 22586008.
If time allows, we will also review a recent paper from the American Journal of Gastroenterology: The Incidence of 30-Day Adverse Events After Colonoscopy Among Outpatients in the Netherlands. http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v107/n6/full/ajg201240a.html