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Leveraging the COVID-19 pandemic: Is it time to consider incorporating mobile applications into standard clinical management of the liver transplant patient?

Over the past decade, major advancements in the development of mobile applications and telehealth monitoring systems have assisted healthcare professionals in the diagnosis and management of chronic disease. When effectively used, mobile applications can lead to higher quality care and better patient-reported outcomes.(1) Mobile applications can also improve patient self-management of chronic metabolic disease.(2) Despite these known benefits in other chronic diseases, telehealth and mobile...

Risk of COVID 19 in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases compared to a control population

CONCLUSION: IBD patients do not have an increased risk of COVID-19 specific symptoms or more severe disease compared with a control group of gastroenterology patients.

Reply to "Ivermectin Treatment May Improve the Prognosis of Patients With COVID-19"

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Feasibility of using alternative swabs and storage solutions for paired SARS-CoV-2 detection and microbiome analysis in the hospital environment

CONCLUSIONS: Compared to using a clinical-grade synthetic swab, detection of SARS-CoV-2 from environmental samples collected from ICU rooms of patients with COVID was similar using consumer-grade swabs, stored in 95% ethanol. The yield was best from the swab head rather than the eluent and the low level of RNase activity and lack of antibiotics in these samples makes it possible to perform concomitant microbiome analyses. Video abstract.

Perceptions of Romanian Physicians on Lockdowns for COVID-19 Prevention

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) disease (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic in March 2020, triggering important changes for the entire society and healthcare systems, as well as significant lockdown measures aimed to limit the disease spread. We herein intended to catch the dynamic of Romanian physicians' perceptions of COVID-19 impact. For this purpose, after a literature review, a 30-item questionnaire was designed. The questionnaire was twice distributed...

Co-infection of Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with more severe features

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The Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines on the Diagnosis of COVID-19: Molecular Diagnostic Testing

CONCLUSIONS: Universal access to accurate SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid testing is critical for patient care, hospital infection prevention and the public response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Information on the clinical performance of available tests is rapidly emerging, but the quality of evidence of the current literature is considered moderate to very low. Recognizing these limitations, the IDSA panel weighed available diagnostic evidence and recommends nucleic acid testing for all symptomatic...

Fecal microbiota transplantation for COVID-19; a potential emerging treatment strategy

At the end of 2019, an emerging outbreak caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that first reported from Wuhan, China. The first manifestations of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 was flu-like symptoms, while other type of manifestations, especially gastrointestinal manifestations were discovered recently. As of June 2020, there is no specific drug or treatment strategy for COVID-19, a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, so different combination of antiviral drugs is...

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Activity in a Tertiary Care Center from Northeastern Romania

CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly altered the workflow of the endoscopy unit, lowering the number of procedures performed and potentially compromising the early detection of cancers.

Prevalence of Clostridioides difficile and Other Gastrointestinal Pathogens in Patients with COVID-19

CONCLUSIONS: Pathogens aside from C.difficile do not appear to be a significant contributor to diarrhea in COVID-19 positive patients.

Journal Table of Contents (Current Issues)

American Journal of Gastroenterology (Full-text Available via OpenAthens)
BMC Gastroenterology (Open Access)
BMJ Open Gastroenterology (Open Access)
Current Opinion in Gastroenterology (Full-text not Available)
Gastroenterology (Full-text not Available)
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Full-text not available)
Gut (Full-text available via NHS Athens)
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Full-text available via NHS Athens)
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