Mila Kovacheva-Slavova

TL;DR: The authors formulated four consensus statements to urge reduction of unjustified antibiotic treatment in acute pancreatitis and to use procalcitonin rather than WBC or CRP as biomarkers to guide decision-making.

TL;DR: Although ASD therapy is widely used, it is unlikely to have beneficial effects either on the outcome of AP or on the prevention of GI bleeding during AP, and it should be substantially decreased in the therapeutic management of AP.

TL;DR: Autoimmune gastritis (AIG) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastric corpus and fundus that might manifest with multifactorial iron deficiency anemia, vitamin B12 deficiency (pernicious anemia), neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and gastrointestinal infections.

TL;DR: The standard triple therapy is largely replaced with a quadruple therapy, especially in countries with high resistance rates, and Antimicrobial susceptibility testing should be performed after the second-line treatment failure, leading to an individualized patient treatment.

TL;DR: Proper follow-up and correction of suboptimal PERT reduce the risk of severe malnutrition complications, associated morbidity and mortality and ensures better quality of life for patients with PEI.