Publications by authors named "U M Sreenivasa Murthy"
Fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) has become the most utilized test for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. This retrospective quality assurance report analyzed data for 411 patients from one academic center in Central New York who underwent FIT between September 2015 and September 2016. All 67 positive tests and 344 of 952 negative tests were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIdiopathic Esophageal Lipomatosis: An Incidental Benign Discovery.
Case Rep Gastroenterol
September 2021
Gastrointestinal (GI) lipomatosis has been reported in the GI medicine literature, but esophageal lipomatosis has never been reported at all. We report the case of an 86-year-old man with multiple medical comorbidities who was admitted to our hospital for community-acquired pneumonia. Computed tomography angiography of his pulmonary arteries ruled out the possibility of pulmonary embolism but showed a 9-mm circumferential wall thickening in the proximal esophagus measuring -172 HU, which is similar in opacity to the adipose tissue.
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- Heartburn that doesn't improve with proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) is a common issue, possibly needing alternative treatments like surgery or different medications, as there’s no proven effective solution yet.
- In a study, 366 patients with persistent heartburn were initially tested with omeprazole; those who didn’t find relief underwent various diagnostic procedures before being randomly assigned to different treatment groups.
- The results showed that surgical treatment was significantly more effective than active medical treatment or placebo, with 67% of surgical patients reporting success compared to 28% in the active treatment group.