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Clinical Focus: Deep Venous Thrombosis, Cardiovascular Events, Differential Diagnosis, and Gastrointestinal Disorders
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  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Crohn's disease
  • Spastic colon
  • GI tract erosion
  • Bariatric surgery
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  • Short bowel syndrome and recombinant human growth hormone
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  • Cell transplantation: minimally invasive surgery
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  • Future directions in endoscopic sedation
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  • Advances in celiac disease
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  • CLDs: Markers of disease progression
  • GERD: PPI failure
  • Preventing colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease
  • Autoimmune disorders of the pancreas and biliary tract
  • Bariatrics for the endoscopist: bypasses and detours
  • Colonoscopic cancer screening in 2010
  • Common approaches to pelvic floor abnormalities
  • Detecting and managing colonic dysplasia in IBD: current and future practices
  • Gastrointestinal surgery in the elderly
  • Hepatic resection for liver masses
  • Optional management of anticoagulation
  • Management of hepatitis C non-responders and relapsers
  • Multimodality detection and management of Barrett's and dysplasia
  • NASH and comorbidities
  • New and emerging approaches to the management of IBS
  • NOTES single-port access surgery
  • Pancreatic cancer screening
  • Predicting and treating variceal hemorrhage
  • Advances in endoscopic imaging
  • Clinical HPB/upper GI
  • Endoscopic sedation and monitoring issues in 2010
  • HCV therapy advances
  • New developments in eosinophilic esophagitis
Cardiovascular:
  • Long-term outcomes of drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in underrepresented populations: results from the Linked NCDR and CMS database
  • Antithrombotic strategy during PCI in NSTEMI: Update from ACTION registry GWTG
  • Timing of in-hospital CABG in relationship to mortality for ACS patients: NCDR ACTION registry
  • Limitations of using cardiac catheterization rates as a quality measure for non-ST-segment elevation MI
  • STEMI care and outcomes
  • High-risk features of carotid artery stent patients: preliminary results from the CARE registry
  • Secondary prevention therapies among patients with nonobstructive CAD
  • Regional variations of primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
  • High-dose statins usage before PCI
  • Embolic Protection in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (PROTECT AF) trial and Watchman group
  • JUPITER trial and rosuvastatin reducing risk of thromboembolism
  • Combination treatment in atrial fibrillation
  • Polypill usage with statins, aspirin, and folic acid
  • Benefits of renal sympathetic nerve ablation
  • Use of relaxin in acute heart failure
  • Detecting DVT: venous access in the emergency department
  • DVT prevention in the at-risk patient population
  • DVT prevention in critically ill patients
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