Gastroenterology

This week’s Research Roundup highlights how fasting blood glucose levels provide an estimate of duration and progression of pancreatic cancer before diagnosis.

By Kelley Luedke • August 20, 2018

This week’s Research Roundup highlights gastrointestinal and extra-intestinal manifestations of immunoglobulin G4-related disease.

By Kelley Luedke • July 23, 2018

This week’s Research Roundup features highly discriminant methylated DNA markers for the non-endoscopic detection of Barrett's esophagus.

By Kelley Luedke • June 18, 2018

This week’s Research Roundup highlights how fasting blood-glucose levels provide estimate of duration and progression of pancreatic cancer before diagnosis.

By Kelley Luedke • May 7, 2018

This week’s Research Roundup highlights the development of a microscopic colitis disease activity index.

By Kelley Luedke • March 26, 2018

In a recent issue of Mayo Clinic's Digestive Diseases, Michael Camilleri, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Mayo Clinic, and Leslie Donato, Ph.D., Co-Director for Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Clinical Laboratory, and Point of Care Testing at Mayo Clinic, discuss bile acid malabsorption testing in clinical practice.

By Kelley Luedke • March 9, 2018

In this month’s “Hot Topic,” Melissa Snyder, Ph.D., will review the diagnostic testing algorithms for celiac disease and highlight the advantages and limitations of certain tests, including serology and genetic assays.

By MCL Education • March 5, 2018

Leslie Donato, Ph.D., Consultant in Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Core Laboratory at Mayo Clinic, recently authored an article in "Medical Lab Management" on new laboratory testing options to evaluate irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea (IBS-D) patients. 

By Kelley Luedke • December 29, 2017

This week’s Research Roundup highlights prehospital transfusion for gastrointestinal bleeding.

By Kelley Luedke • November 20, 2017

This "Specialty Testing" webinar will outline the different tests to detect patients who are at risk for thiopurine-related toxicity and the advantages of each test.

By MCL Education • November 6, 2017

Ann Moyer, M.D., Ph.D., discusses an additional gene, NUDT15, which is important in the prediction of thiopurine-related toxicity This gene has been added to our TPMT genotyping assay available through Mayo Medical Laboratories.

By Mayo Clinic Laboratories • October 25, 2017

This week’s Research Roundup highlights autologous mesenchymal stem cells, applied in a bioabsorbable matrix, for treatment of perianal fistulas in patients with Crohn's disease.

By Kelley Luedke • September 11, 2017

An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure to guide clinicians and laboratorians in appropriate laboratory test ordering.

By Brent Westra • July 28, 2017