Polyethylene glycol-based bowel preparation before colonoscopy for selected inpatients: A pilot study.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a new same-day, low-dose 1-L polyethylene glycol-based (1-L PEG) bowel preparation on the diagnostic rating of selected hospitalized patients and its tolerability, with risk factors for inadequate bowel preparation.

Methods: A single-center prospective pilot study was conducted with hospitalized patients scheduled for colonoscopy, presenting risk factors for poor bowel preparation, such as bleeding or subocclusive symptoms. The included patients were randomly divided in two groups, which received either a same-day 1-L PEG (group A) or a split-dose 4-L PEG (group B), and performed a colonoscopy within 4 h of the last dose.

Multiple, zonal and multi-zone adenoma detection rates according to quality of cleansing during colonoscopy.

Background: The safety and diagnostic accuracy of colonoscopy depend on the quality of colon cleansing. The adenoma detection rate is usually used as a quality measurement score.

Objective: We aimed to introduce and evaluate three new parameters to determine polyps and adenomas segmental localization and their distribution in association with different bowel preparation levels during colonoscopy.

Endoscopic mucosal resection in elderly patients.

Background: Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) of early superficial colorectal carcinomas is nowadays accepted as the gold standard treatment for this type of neoplasia.

Aim: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of mucosectomy in elderly patients considering the predictive value of submucosal infiltration.

Methods: A retrospective study of all patients referred for EMR of sessile colorectal polyps classified IIa by the Paris classification between April 2013 and April 2015.

A Retrospective Case-Control Study Evaluating the Bowel Preparation Quality during Surveillance Colonoscopy after Colonic Resection.

Purpose. Bowel preparation for surveillance endoscopy following surgery can be impaired by suboptimal bowel function. Our study compares two groups of patients in order to evaluate the influence of colorectal resection on bowel preparation.

Low-volume plus ascorbic acid vs high-volume plus simethicone bowel preparation before colonoscopy.

Aim: To investigate the effectiveness of low-volume plus ascorbic acid [polyethylene glycol plus ascorbic acid (PEG + Asc)] and high-volume plus simethicone [polyethylene glycol plus simethicone (PEG + Sim)] bowel preparations.

Methods: A total of one hundred and forty-four outpatients (76 males), aged from 20 to 84 years (median age 59.5 years), who attended our Department, were divided into two groups, age and sex matched, and underwent colonoscopy.

Efficacy of H. pylori eradication with a sequential regimen followed by rescue therapy in clinical practice.

Background: Current Italian guidelines suggest sequential therapy as first-line therapy and a levofloxacin-based rescue therapy for Helicobacter pylori eradication. We evaluated the efficacy of these therapies in clinical practice.

Methods: 84 consecutive patients with dyspeptic symptoms and proven H.