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    • Gillian Patman
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 12, P: 252

  • A new 'intelligent knife' provides near-real-time intraoperative tissue analysis and enables accurate differentiation between malignant and benign tissue. This ability to 'smell' cancer could be applicable to a variety of oncological operations in gastroenterology, but some questions and limitations remain as this interesting new technology is explored.

    • Benjamin Crawshaw
    • Conor P. Delaney
    News & Views
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 10, P: 624-625

  • NSAIDs provide improved pain control and reduce the use of opioids—both important components of enhanced recovery programs after colorectal surgery. However, the possible association between NSAID use and anastomotic leaks is greatly debated. Anastomotic leak remains an important concern due to the substantial associated morbidity.

    • Julie Ann M. Van Koughnett
    • Steven D. Wexner
    News & Views
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 11, P: 523-524

  • Women are counselled that surgery for ulcerative colitis leads to infertility and that they could require assisted reproductive technology (ART) to conceive. But how successful is ART, compared with women who do not have a history of ulcerative colitis? New data suggests that ART is less effective in women with ulcerative colitis, but its success is not reduced after surgery to treat the disease.

    • Sunanda Kane
    News & Views
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 13, P: 318-320

  • A recent paper indicates that intraoperative and postoperative complications associated with complete mesocolic excision are increased when compared with conventional surgery. Variability in complication rates between studies highlights the need for standardization in colorectal surgery. This process should start by addressing factors that have hampered standardization to date.

    • J. Calvin Coffey
    • Peter Dockery
    News & Views
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 13, P: 256-257

  • The standard treatment for stage III rectal cancer is chemoradiation followed by radical surgery. Recent trials have recommended a 'watch and wait' approach for patients who achieve a complete clinical response. A new study reports that 51% of patients who achieved a sustained complete clinical response did not require radical surgery.

    • Bruce D. Minsky
    News & Views
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 10, P: 698-700

  • Colectomy is rightly viewed as a last resort in selected patients with slow-transit constipation. A new study presents US national data that raises new concerns regarding the outcome of this procedure and perhaps questions whether it should be offered at all.

    • Charles H. Knowles
    News & Views
    Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
    Volume: 12, P: 675-676