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Colorectal Cancer Screening and Polyp Surveillance Intervals
Colon Cancer Screening - Modality - Interval:
 • Colonoscopy -
Screening and Polyp ... - Interval: • Colonoscopy ... Multitarget DNA stool test ... • Serrated Polyps ... Surveillance #Intervals #management
Serrated Polyps
Hyperplastic polyps (HPs):
 • Prevalence: 20-30%
 • Size: Usually small or diminutive (s 5mm)
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Serrated Polyps ... Hyperplastic polyps ... distal Sessile serrated ... #Polyps #comparison ... #colonoscopy #gastroenterology
Colonoscopy Followup Intervals 
10 years: Normal colonoscopy, ≥ 20 HP < 10mm
7-10 years: 1-2 adenomas <
Colonoscopy Followup ... dysplasia, Traditional serrated ... SSPs: Sessile serrated ... polyps #Colonoscopy ... gastroenterology #guidelines #management
Cold Snare Polypectomy - Tips and Tricks
 - Before initiating cold snare polypectomy, it is important
fold and in the management ... of serrated lesions ... channel of the colonoscope ... #Tips #Tricks#management ... gastroenterology #fellows #colonoscopy
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 ... Breath test for ... Colonoscopy +/- ... PTLD, GVHD or IBD
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) - Diagnosis and Workup Summary
Use a positive diagnostic strategy with minimal testing.
cultures, but test ... risk • Routine colonoscopy ... things" → fewer polyps ... in IBS vs non-IBS ... Balloon Expulsion Test
Strategies to Improve Quality of Screening and Surveillance Colonoscopy - AGA Guidelines

1. Adequate bowel preparation.
2. Use
and Surveillance Colonoscopy ... Goal serrated lesion ... Complex polyps that ... Document colonoscopy ... AGA #Guidelines #management
IBD Colonoscopy Surveillance 
LOW RISK - Follow-up Colonoscopy at 3 years:
 • Quiescent disease , Endoscopic
IBD Colonoscopy ... RISK - Follow-up Colonoscopy ... • Inflammatory polyps ... degree relative #IBD ... #Guidelines #management
Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies - 
Dermatomyositis (DM), Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy (IMNM), Antisynthetase Syndrome (ASS), Inclusion Body Myositis
Body Myositis (IBM ... Idiopathic #Myopathy #Comparison ... #Managment #algorithm
Whipple Disease (Tropheryma whipplei) - Diagnosis and Management 

Caused by: Tropheryma whipplei

Symptoms and Signs:
1. Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia
Diagnosis and Management ... Migratory poly/oligoarthralgia ... positive T. whipplei test ... Disease #diagnosis #algorithm ... #management #criteria