Publications by authors named "Kirthi Lilley"
Article Synopsis
- Many patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) do not respond to traditional treatments, leading researchers to explore adalimumab (ADA) and vedolizumab (VDZ) as alternative therapies.
- The study analyzed randomized controlled trials to compare the effectiveness of ADA and VDZ against placebo for treating moderate to severe Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), focusing on clinical response, remission, and safety outcomes.
- Results showed that both treatments were more effective than placebo for achieving remission and response in patients, with ADA being particularly more effective than VDZ for CD, but further studies on a larger scale are needed for better safety assessments.
Background And Aims: Cold snare resection of colorectal lesions has been found to be safe and effective for an expanding set of colorectal lesions. In this study, we sought to understand the efficacy of simple cold snare resection and cold EMR versus hot snare resection and hot EMR for colorectal lesions 6 to 15 mm in size.
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Xylophagia is a form of pica where patients have the unusual craving for ingestion of paper. After treating the underlying cause of pica, in this case treating iron deficiency anemia with iron replacement therapy, these unusual cravings resolve.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 60-year-old woman presented with six months of abdominal pain, weight loss and diarrhea for which she underwent bidirectional endoscopies that were unremarkable. Over the next two weeks, she developed non-cirrhotic portal hypertension and presented with esophageal variceal bleeding. A diffuse large B-cell lymphoma encircling her celiac axis with a tumor thrombosis of the superior mesenteric, splenic and portal veins was found to be the cause of her portal hypertension.
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