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Physicians with difficult patient scenarios regularly bring their questions to the AGA Community to seek advice from fellow GIs on therapy and disease management options, best practices, and diagnoses.
In case you missed it, here are the most popular clinical cases shared in the forum recently:
1. Eosinophilic esophagitis and stricture
A tight stricture in the mid-esophagus of a 25-year-old patient prevented the physician from passing the scope on multiple occasions within 5 weeks.
2. Behcet’s
A 41-year-old patient with Behcet’s disease and celiac disease originally reported joint pain and diarrhea, which subsided after treatment with prednisone and sulfasalazine. Despite a limited diet and therapeutic levels of Humira, her symptoms resurfaced 6 months later with loose stools and urgency.
3. Ectopic varices with portal vein thrombosis
This case involves a 49-year-old male who developed necrotizing pancreatitis due to microlithiasis in 2008, followed by pyrexia with three pyogenic liver abscesses this past May. The attending physician solicited advice from the GI community on management of this patient’s portal hypertension.
4. Firefighters at higher CRC risk?
Join this informative discussion about a reported “1.21 times greater risk” for colorectal cancer in firefighters, and increased screening for this demographic.
More clinical cases and discussions are at https://community.gastro.org/discussions.
Physicians with difficult patient scenarios regularly bring their questions to the AGA Community to seek advice from fellow GIs on therapy and disease management options, best practices, and diagnoses.
In case you missed it, here are the most popular clinical cases shared in the forum recently:
1. Eosinophilic esophagitis and stricture
A tight stricture in the mid-esophagus of a 25-year-old patient prevented the physician from passing the scope on multiple occasions within 5 weeks.
2. Behcet’s
A 41-year-old patient with Behcet’s disease and celiac disease originally reported joint pain and diarrhea, which subsided after treatment with prednisone and sulfasalazine. Despite a limited diet and therapeutic levels of Humira, her symptoms resurfaced 6 months later with loose stools and urgency.
3. Ectopic varices with portal vein thrombosis
This case involves a 49-year-old male who developed necrotizing pancreatitis due to microlithiasis in 2008, followed by pyrexia with three pyogenic liver abscesses this past May. The attending physician solicited advice from the GI community on management of this patient’s portal hypertension.
4. Firefighters at higher CRC risk?
Join this informative discussion about a reported “1.21 times greater risk” for colorectal cancer in firefighters, and increased screening for this demographic.
More clinical cases and discussions are at https://community.gastro.org/discussions.
Physicians with difficult patient scenarios regularly bring their questions to the AGA Community to seek advice from fellow GIs on therapy and disease management options, best practices, and diagnoses.
In case you missed it, here are the most popular clinical cases shared in the forum recently:
1. Eosinophilic esophagitis and stricture
A tight stricture in the mid-esophagus of a 25-year-old patient prevented the physician from passing the scope on multiple occasions within 5 weeks.
2. Behcet’s
A 41-year-old patient with Behcet’s disease and celiac disease originally reported joint pain and diarrhea, which subsided after treatment with prednisone and sulfasalazine. Despite a limited diet and therapeutic levels of Humira, her symptoms resurfaced 6 months later with loose stools and urgency.
3. Ectopic varices with portal vein thrombosis
This case involves a 49-year-old male who developed necrotizing pancreatitis due to microlithiasis in 2008, followed by pyrexia with three pyogenic liver abscesses this past May. The attending physician solicited advice from the GI community on management of this patient’s portal hypertension.
4. Firefighters at higher CRC risk?
Join this informative discussion about a reported “1.21 times greater risk” for colorectal cancer in firefighters, and increased screening for this demographic.
More clinical cases and discussions are at https://community.gastro.org/discussions.