http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Surgeons at the University of Rochester recently introduced a new device to treat potentially deadly aortic aneurysms in the abdomen, reducing the need for invasive surgery and a lengthy recovery. URMC's Heart and Vascular Center is one of just 30 centers in the United States to use a custom-made, fenestrated endovascular graft for the most challenging cases. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-urmc-treatment-life-threatening-aneurysms.html Surgery Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:24:10 EST news279534243 Bariatric surgery, which significantly curtails the amount of food a person can eat, is the most effective treatment against obesity and is being recognized as a potentially valuable tool in the fight against diabetes related to obesity. It is being performed on increasing numbers of people worldwide, including teenagers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-bariatric-surgery-bones.html Overweight and Obesity Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:45:20 EST news271071906 Parents with children nine years old and older who have Crohn disease should ask their children's doctor about MR enterography as a replacement for small bowel x-rays or CT enterography, a new study indicates. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-enterography-option-pediatric-patients-crohn.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:00:17 EST news264852011 Under-performance of small bowel biopsy during endoscopy may be a major reason that celiac disease remains underdiagnosed in the United States, according to a new study published online recently in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Investigators at the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) found that the rate of small bowel biopsy is low in this country. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-biopsy-contribute-celiac-disease-underdiagnosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:20:03 EST news260201148 The common antibiotic, amoxicillin-clavulanate, may improve small bowel function in children experiencing motility disturbances, according to a study appearing in the June print edition of the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition from Nationwide Children's Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-antibiotic-amoxicillin-clavulanate-meal-small-bowel.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:47:26 EST news255008807 A large-scale data review by researchers in China of double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) over the last decade showed the endoscopic procedure to be safe and effective for detection of diseases of the small intestine. DBE had a pooled detection rate of 68.1 percent for all small intestinal disease. Suspected mid-gastrointestinal bleeding was found to be the most common indication, with a relatively high detection rate. Inflammatory lesions and vascular lesions were the most common findings in patients with suspected mid-gastrointestinal bleeding. The study appears in the September issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-large-scale-balloon-enteroscopy-safe-effective.html Other Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:41:44 EST news236270492 The radiation dose for a CT fluoroscopy is about half that for conventional fluoroscopy to guide epidural steroid injections, however, the dose is substantially more than conventional fluoroscopy when a full lumbar planning CT scan is performed as part of the CT-guided procedure, a new study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-key-dose-ct-fluoroscopy-spine.html Cancer Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:20:49 EST news235909226