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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Flares Negatively Affect Pregnancy Outcomes
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Although the treatment response rate of pregnant women hospitalized with an inflammatory bowel disease relapse is high, the incidence of preterm birth and low birth weight infants is also high compared with inflammatory bowel disease patients who do not relapse during pregnancy. Reuters Health Information
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Octreotide May Enhance Control of Portal Hypertension
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In patients with cirrhosis, the reduction in portal pressure induced by propranolol is apparently enhanced by the addition of octreotide, a long-acting synthetic somatostatin analogue. The finding is reported by researchers from Argentina in the October issue of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Reuters Health Information
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