Current guidelines recommend management of benign gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) with serial dilations. Self-expanding metal stents are effective, but their use is complicated by high rates of migration. We present two cases from our institution where a uniquely designed, lumen-apposing metal stent (LAMS) was successfully used to alleviate benign GOO without stent migration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA woman presented to the emergency department with sharp abdominal pain and no evidence of a food-borne illness. How would you treat the patient?
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGoals: We aimed to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) versus non-NASH fatty liver.
Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, which is a leading cause of death in this patient population. NASH is a subset of NAFLD that carries a higher risk of progression to cirrhosis and its associated complications.
Background: Prior research on reducing variation in housestaff handoff procedures have depended on proprietary checkout software. Use of low-technology standardization techniques has not been widely studied.
Purpose: We wished to determine if standardizing the process of intern sign-out using low-technology sign-out tools could reduce perception of errors and missing handoff data.