Antibiotic prophylaxis for GI endoscopy

GUIDELINEA ntibiotic prophylaxis for GI endoscopyThis is one of a series of statements discussing the use ofGI endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Stan-dards of Practice Committee of the American Society forGastrointestinal endoscopy (ASGE) prepared this docu-ment, and it updates a previously issued document onthis preparing this guideline, MEDLINE andPubMed databases were used to search for publicationsbetween January 1975 and December 2013 pertainingto this topic. The search was supplemented by accessingthe related articles feature of PubMed, with articlesidentified on MEDLINE and PubMed as the references were obtained from the bibliogra-phies of the identified articles and from recommenda-tions of expert consultants.

FNA, is within the range of that for diagnostic upper endos-copy. Prospective studies in patients undergoing EUS-guided FNA (EUS-FNA) of cystic or solid lesions along the upper GI tract indicate a low prevalence of procedure-related bacteremia, ranging from 4.0% to 5.8%.24-27 Similarly, EUS-FNA of solid rectal and perirectal

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