Publications by authors named "Luisa Milan"
Article Synopsis
- The study examines the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) after the removal of low-risk and high-risk adenomas in patients who tested positive for fecal immunochemical tests (FIT) and underwent colonoscopy in Italy from 2002 to 2017.
- Researchers tracked 87,248 colonoscopy cases and found that those with high-risk adenomas had a significant increase in CRC incidence compared to those with negative colonoscopies, while those with low-risk adenomas did not show increased risk.
- The presence of specific risk factors such as the location and morphology of the adenomas, particularly in high-risk cases, contributed to the higher incidences of CRC observed in the follow-up period.
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programs based on fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) represent the standard of care for population-based interventions. Their benefit depends on the identification of neoplasia at colonoscopy after FIT positivity. Colonoscopy quality measured by adenoma detection rate (ADR) may affect screening program effectiveness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Helicobacter pylori infection is the main cause of the most frequent gastroduodenal diseases. Because its prevalence is decreasing in developed countries, gastric biopsies are negative in several patients. By measuring ammonium in the gastric juice, EndoFaster allows to exclude H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In patients with atrophic gastritis involving gastric body mucosa the pH value of gastric juice is distinctly increased, so that pH assessment would allow predict this precancerous lesion. We tested whether EndoFaster® - a device allowing real-time pH measure and H. pylori diagnosis - may optimize the need of taking gastric biopsies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Linked-color imaging (LCI), a new image-enhancing technology emphasizing contrast in mucosal color, has been demonstrated to substantially reduce polyp miss rate as compared with standard white-light imaging (WLI) in tandem colonoscopy studies. Whether LCI increases adenoma detection rate (ADR) remains unclear.
Methods: Consecutive subjects undergoing screening colonoscopy after fecal immunochemical test (FIT) positivity were 1:1 randomized to undergo colonoscopy with LCI or WLI, both in high-definition systems.