Gastroenterology

Hospital Medicine

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What is your approach to secondary prophylaxis for C difficile infection during concomitant antibiotic use in a patient with a history of C difficile infection?

1 Answer available

Should platelet transfusions be considered for anti-platelet agent reversal in patients with major bleeding?

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Do you continue antiplatelet/anticoagulant therapy in patients with hemodynamically stable diverticular bleeding to improve localization and treatment of source of bleeding?

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Do you routinely recommend diagnostic endoscopy for patients with persistent enterococcus bacteremia despite receiving adequate antimicrobial therapy and no clear nidus?

Rogers & Rice, PMID 38018162

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Is there a serum ammonium level for which you recommend initiation of dialysis in a patient with hepatic encephalopathy?

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What is your approach to treatment of patients with fulminant C difficile infection who required ileostomy creation or colectomy?

Is there a role for oral vancomycin in these patients, or is oral vancomycin redundant if other routes of administration are being used (i.e intracolo...

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Which patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension are ideal candidates to undergo TIPS to reduce perioperative risk in anticipation of an elective surgery?

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How would you approach management of a patient with a medium-to-large vessel vasculitis who developed perforation of the stomach and colon on steroids and cyclophosphamide?

Vasculitis involving aorta, subclavian, common carotid, SMA, IMA, renal artery, and celiac artery.

1 Answer available

Do you avoid terlipressin for patients with hepatorenal syndrome who have a serum sodium level less than 125 mEq/L?

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How long should surgery be delayed in a patient with localized, resectable pancreatic cancer who developed acute pancreatitis following EUS guided biopsy?

And if delayed, should chemotherapy be started?

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Papers discussed in this category

Lancet, 2016 May 10

Platelet transfusion versus standard care after acute stroke due to spontaneous cerebral haemorrhage associated with antiplatelet therapy (PATCH): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial.

Microbes and infection, 2024 May 06

Secondary prophylaxis for Clostridioides difficile infection for patients on non-C. difficile antibiotics: a retrospective cohort study.

American journal of clinical oncology, 2023 Dec 22

Executive Summary of the American Radium Society Appropriate Use Criteria for Neoadjuvant Therapy for Nonmetastatic Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: Systematic Review and Guidelines.

The New England journal of medicine, 2021 Mar 04

Terlipressin plus Albumin for the Treatment of Type 1 Hepatorenal Syndrome.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2023 Oct 17

How We Treat Hyperammonemia in Acute Liver Failure.

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