No patient had a history of BE, intestinal metaplasia or dysplasia in esophageal mucosa, or esophageal surgery, endoscopic ablation or endoscopic mucosal resection prior to enrollment. Overall ...

This policy statement discusses clinical guidelines for screening of fetuses suspected of manifesting a skeletal dysplasia or for pregnancies at-risk. Historically, in-utero radiographs of a fetus ...

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a group of conditions that affect your child’s adrenal glands. Congenital means that your child had this at birth, and hyperplasia means that the glands are ...

Why should I get my dog's hips screened? Many breeds of dog are at risk of developing a condition known as hip dysplasia. Hip dysplasia is a common inherited problem that means one or both of the hip ...

Adenomatous polyps typically do not cause symptoms unless they progress to colon cancer. Even then, there may be no sign of a problem until the malignancy is advanced. This is why colon cancer ...

Complete eradication of dysplasia and intestinal metaplasia by RFA was achieved in 98% and 90%, respectively. The most common complication was stricture, which occurred in 12% of patients, but this ...

We will discuss inflammation (acute vs chronic), apoptosis vs necrosis, scaring and tissue healing, hyperplasia, metaplasia, neoplasia etc. This course is taught face-to-face and over the course of ...

Barrett’s oesophagus is the major risk factor. Intestinal metaplasia at the squamocolumnar junction in the absence of Barrett’s oesophagus is common but its relation to adenocarcinoma and ...