Medical professionals generally agree that getting a colonoscopy is the best way to screen patients. "Colonoscopy is ...

After all that prep and the procedure itself, it’s natural to come out of the anesthesia from your colonoscopy and start to ...

SAN DIEGO — A less restrictive low residue diet may improve colonoscopy bowel preparation quality compared with a clear liquid diet, according to interim randomized controlled trial data ...

Colonoscopy patients who adhered to a low residue diet prior to the procedure reported higher satisfaction and were found to have better bowel preparations on average than patients who fasted ...

Polyp detection was the same in both groups: eight of 15 patients for patients on a full liquid diet and six of 19 patients on a clear liquid diet. Completion time and patient satisfaction rates were ...

(HealthDay News) — A low-residue diet prior to a colonoscopy may be better than clear liquids only, according to research presented at the annual Digestive Disease Week, held from May 21 to 24 ...

Patients received instructions including split-dose polyethylene glycol, avoidance of vegetables and beans two days before colonoscopy, and a clear liquid diet the day before colonoscopy.

A low-residue diet is a viable alternative to clear-liquid diet preparation, and gastroenterologists should be paying more attention to it, said David Johnson, MD, chief of gastroenterology at Eastern ...

Spanish study reveals that rapid fecal test is as effective as colonoscopy in detecting colorectal cancer in its early stages.

Yet we specialists continue to provide outdated and disproven recommendations on colonoscopy bowel preparation that make the process more difficult for the millions of patients who undergo colonoscopy ...