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Strategies to Improve Quality of Screening and Surveillance Colonoscopy - AGA Guidelines

1. Adequate bowel preparation.
2. Use
Bowel prep instructions ... look of the right colon ... Goal adenoma detection ... including procedure indication ... AGA #Guidelines #management
Diarrhea Workup and Management Algorithm in Transplant Patients
First Tier Microbiologic-Testing:
1. C. difficile PCR (Stool)
2. CMV qPCR
Diarrhea Workup and Management ... Algorithm in Transplant ... Adjust IS medications ... Colonoscopy +/- ... PTLD, GVHD or IBD
Algorithm for the Evaluation of Chronic Diarrhea (< 7 days)
Exclude:
1. Causes of acute diarrhea
2. Lactose intolerance
3.
Algorithm for the ... surgery or ileal resection ... Medications 7. ... occult blood - Colonoscopy ... Chronic #Diarrhea #management
Fatigue and IBD Algorithm
 • 40-50% patients have fatigue despite clinical remission
 • Risk factors: BMI,
Algorithm • 40- ... NRH & Heme eval. re ... ileal Crohn's/resection ... #Algorithm #diagnosis ... #management
Acromegaly - Diagnosis and Management Summary - GrepMed Handbook 

Clinical Presentation: 
 • Classic Acromegaly: frontal
Diagnosis and Management ... LV hypertrophy, colon ... Mortality due to CVD & colon ... • Pituitary testing ... Transsphenoidal surgical resection
ACA Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines

When to Screen?
When to Stop?
Family History

Performance Characteristics for Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
Stool/blood-based
visualization: • Colonoscopy ... : 100% detection ... comparison #table #management ... gastroenterology #CRC #Testing ... #Indications
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
procedures (eg, colonoscopy ... resistance, impaired fasting ... - First, a non-selective ... laparoscopic tumor resection ... Open surgical resection
Performance Characteristics for Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests
Stool/blood-based tests:
 • FIT: 79% sensitivity, 94% specificity for CRC
visualization: • Colonoscopy ... : 100% detection ... lesions or SSLs • Colon ... comparison #table #management ... gastroenterology #CRC #Testing
IDSA Recommendations for Treating Cytomegalovirus Infections in HIV-AIDS
Preventing CMV Disease:
 • CMV end-organ disease is best
Recommendations for Treating ... ., concomitant medications ... concentrations are ... Valganciclovir 900 mg PO BID ... Prevention #Treatment #management