Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent)
December 2022
Sclerosing mesenteritis is a rare disorder characterized by fat necrosis, chronic inflammation, and fibrosis of the small bowel mesentery. With a paucity of published clinical trials on sclerosing mesenteritis, treatment is based on case reports and trials of other fibrosing diseases, such as idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis. We present a case of a 68-year-old woman with sclerosing mesenteritis who exhibited complete symptomatic and radiographic resolution with the use of tamoxifen monotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFScope Of Specialty: Colorectal surgery encompasses any procedure performed on the colon and/or rectum. This section focuses on rectal surgery, specifically regarding surgery for rectal cancer and its technical complexity and disease complexity that often requires a multidisciplinary team-based approach. The emergence of rectal cancer surgical specialists exhibits improvements in rectal cancer outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Surgical site infections are a major preventable source of morbidity, mortality, and increased health care expenditures after colorectal surgery. Patients with penicillin allergy may not receive the recommended preoperative antibiotics, putting them at increased risk for surgical site infections.
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the impact of patient-reported penicillin allergy on preoperative antibiotic prophylaxis and surgical site infection rates among patients undergoing major colon and rectal procedures.
Clin Drug Investig
February 2021
Background: Many people infected with hepatitis C virus have comorbidities, including hypercholesterolemia, that are treated with statins. In this study, we evaluated the drug-drug interaction potential of the hepatitis C virus inhibitors elbasvir (EBR) and grazoprevir (GZR) with statins. Pitavastatin, rosuvastatin, pravastatin, and atorvastatin are substrates of organic anion-transporting polypeptide 1B, whereas rosuvastatin and atorvastatin are also breast cancer resistance protein substrates.
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