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B Cells Key in Takayasu Arteritis

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: December 13, 2011

Major Finding: Increasing numbers of plasmablasts, alongside a generally atypical B-cell subset profile, correlate with higher disease activity in...

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Long-Term Risk of GI Cancers Not Elevated in Celiac Patients

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: December 7, 2011

Major Finding: Overall, celiac disease patients do not have a significantly elevated risk of gastrointestinal cancers, nor do patients with celiac...

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Half of Patients Relapsed After Infliximab Cessation

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: December 7, 2011

Major Finding: Nearly half of patients in remission from Crohn’s disease while being treated with infliximab relapse after discontinuing inf...

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Use of Anesthesiologist for Screening Colonoscopy Raises Cost 20%

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: December 6, 2011

Major Finding: Anesthesiologist involvement in screening colonoscopy increases the cost to Medicare by about 20%, from $575.20 to $678.20 per proc...

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Combined Imaging Modalities May Enable 'Optic Biopsy' in Stomach

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: December 1, 2011

Major Finding: Compared with conventional white-light imaging alone, narrow-band imaging in addition to white-light imaging was significantly bett...

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Novel Hep C Treatment Excludes Peginterferon Alfa

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: December 1, 2011

Major Finding: A novel regimen that did not include peginterferon alfa resulted in a 100% virologic response rate in patients with hepatitis C gen...

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Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis With IBD Yields Worse Outcomes

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: November 3, 2011

Major Finding: Overall, 76% of PSC cases occurred in the setting of comorbid IBD, and these patients were significantly more likely to develop can...

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Water Colonoscopy Delivers Lower Completion Rate

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: November 3, 2011

Major Finding: During colonoscope insertion using water infusion vs. air insufflation, significantly fewer patients requested sedation (8.6% vs.

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One in Six Newly Diagnosed Pediatric SLE Patients Have Low BMD

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: October 24, 2011

Major Finding: At the time of SLE diagnosis, 15% of pediatric patients were found to have low BMD.Data Source: An 80-patient, single-center, prosp...

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Good News in RA: Disability Declining

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: October 12, 2011

Major Finding: Since 1992, disability in rheumatoid arthritis has declined an average of 1.7% per year since the advent of DMARDS, especially meth...

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New Psoriatic Arthritis Guidelines Highlight Paucity of Data

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: October 12, 2011

Major Finding: New recommendations on the treatment of PsA emphasize early use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs, as well as anti–tum...

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Treat-to-Target Early for Real-World Remission

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: October 11, 2011

Major Finding: Overall, 47% of patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis were in remission by 1 year when following a strict treat-to-tar...

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Depressed Mood, RA Disease Activity Linked

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: October 1, 2011

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Surgery, Islet Transplant Ease Chronic Pancreatitis

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: October 1, 2011

Major Finding: In children who underwent total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplant, health-related quality of life scores normalized, and 1...

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Depressed Mood, RA Disease Activity Linked

Author:: Denise Napoli

Publish date: September 26, 2011

Major Finding: Higher Thompson joint scores were associated with higher levels of depressed mood (P = .03) and anxiety (P = .02) at assessments oc...