From prediction to prevention: Machine learning revolutionizes hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence monitoring
This study emphasizes the need for collaborative efforts, multicenter studies and comparative analyses to validate and refine the model. Overcoming these challenges and exploring innovative approaches, such as multi-omics integration, will enhance personalized oncology care. This study marks a significant stride toward precise, effi-cient, and personalized oncology practices, thus offering hope for improved patient outcomes in the field of HCC treatment.PMID:38515945 | PMC:PMC10950631 | DOI:10.3748/wjg.v30.i7.631 (Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG)
Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - March 22, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Mariana Michelle Ram írez-Mejía Nahum M éndez-Sánchez Source Type: research

Trauma to the solid abdominal organs: The missed dark box of colonoscopy
World J Gastroenterol. 2024 Feb 21;30(7):624-630. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i7.624.ABSTRACTColonoscopy is an integral part of the lower bowel care and is generally considered a potentially safe diagnostic and therapeutic procedure performed as a daycare outpatient procedure. Colonoscopy is associated with different complications that are not limited to adverse events related to the bowel preparation solutions used, the sedatives used, but to the procedure related as well including bleeding and perforation. Injuries to the extra-luminal abdominal organs during colonoscopy are uncommon, however, serious complications related to t...
Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - March 22, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Mohamed H Emara Usama Mazid Yasmine A Elshaer Mahmoud A Elkerdawy Dilaver Farooq Malik Aya M Mahros Source Type: research

Diagnostic and therapeutic role of endoscopic ultrasound in liver diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis
CONCLUSION: EUS in liver diseases is a promising technique with the potential to be considered a first-line therapeutic and diagnostic option in selected cases.PMID:38515947 | PMC:PMC10950627 | DOI:10.3748/wjg.v30.i7.742 (Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG)
Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - March 22, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Eyad Gadour Abeer Awad Zeinab Hassan Khalid Jebril Shrwani Bogdan Miutescu Hussein Hassan Okasha Source Type: research

Gastrointestinal contrast-enhanced ultrasonography for diagnosis and treatment of peptic ulcer in children
CONCLUSION: Gastrointestinal CEUS has a high coincidence rate in the diagnosis of peptic ulcer in children, and can be used as a preliminary examination method.PMID:38515948 | PMC:PMC10950618 | DOI:10.3748/wjg.v30.i7.705 (Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG)
Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - March 22, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Yu-Hua Zhang Zhi-Hua Xu Shuang-Shuang Ni Hong-Xia Luo Source Type: research

Pathophysiology of severe gallstone pancreatitis: A new paradigm
World J Gastroenterol. 2024 Feb 21;30(7):614-623. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v30.i7.614.ABSTRACTSevere gallstone pancreatitis (GSP) refractory to maximum conservative therapy has wide clinical variations, and its pathophysiology remains controversial. This Editorial aimed to investigate the pathophysiology of severe disease based on Opie's theories of obstruction, the common channel, and duodenal reflux and describe its types. Severe GSP might be a hybrid disease with pathology polarized between acute cholangitis with mild pancreatitis (biliary type) and necrotizing pancreatitis uncomplicated with biliary tract disease (pancreatic t...
Source: World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG - March 22, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Masatoshi Isogai Source Type: research