Issue 2/2015
Content (42 Articles)
Persisting Early Hypotension: Is This Why Necrosis Gets Infected in Acute Pancreatitis?
James H. Grendell
Decompression of Malignant Biliary Obstruction After Failed ERCP: To EUSBD and Not to PTBD?
Virendra Singh
Environmental Risk Factors for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Review
Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan
The Economic and Quality-of-Life Burden of Crohn’s Disease in Europe and the United States, 2000 to 2013: A Systematic Review
David N. Floyd, Sue Langham, Hélène Chevrou Séverac, Barrett G. Levesque
Collateral Damage: Taxane-Induced Colonic Perforation
Jennifer Erdrich, Zachary J. Kastenberg, Michael A. DiMaio, Teri A. Longacre, Kim F. Rhoads
Variants of Varices: Is It All “Downhill” from Here?
Luke Gessel, Joseph Alcorn
Resource Utilization and Survival Among Medicare Patients with Advanced Liver Disease
Munkhzul Otgonsuren, Linda Henry, Sharon Hunt, Chapy Venkatesan, Alita Mishra, Zobair M. Younossi
Gaps in Recognition and Evaluation of Incidentally Identified Hepatic Steatosis
Andrew P. Wright, Amit P. Desai, Surabhi Bajpai, Lindsay Y. King, Dushyant V. Sahani, Kathleen E. Corey
Documented Compliance with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality Measures Is Poor
Joseph D. Feuerstein, Jeffrey J. Lewandowski, Manuel Martinez-Vazquez, Daniel A. Leffler, Adam S. Cheifetz
Mosapride Citrate Increases Postprandial Glucagon-Like Peptide-1, Insulin, and Gene Expression of Sweet Taste Receptors
Daisuke Maruoka, Makoto Arai, Takeshi Tanaka, Kenichiro Okimoto, Arata Oyamada, Shoko Minemura, Masaru Tsuboi, Tomoaki Matsumura, Tomoo Nakagawa, Tatsuo Kanda, Tatsuro Katsuno, Fumio Imazeki, Osamu Yokosuka
Effect of Repeated Fasting/Refeeding on Obesity Development and Health Complications in Rats Arising from Reduced Nest
Štefan Mozeš, Zuzana Šefčíková, Ľubomír Raček
Phosphorylation of Smad2/3 at Specific Linker Threonine Indicates Slow-Cycling Intestinal Stem-Like Cells Before Reentry to Cell Cycle
Masanobu Kishimoto, Toshiro Fukui, Ryo Suzuki, Yu Takahashi, Kimi Sumimoto, Takashi Okazaki, Masayuki Sakao, Yutaku Sakaguchi, Katsunori Yoshida, Kazushige Uchida, Akiyoshi Nishio, Koichi Matsuzaki, Kazuichi Okazaki
Homocysteine Promotes Intestinal Fibrosis in Rats with Trinitrobenzene Sulfonic Acid-Induced Colitis
Hao Ding, Hui-Zhong Gan, Wen-Jie Fan, Li-Yu Cao, Jian-Ming Xu, Qiao Mei
Mitigation of Colitis with NovaSil Clay Therapy
Katherine E. Zychowski, Sarah E. Elmore, Kristal A. Rychlik, Hoai J. Ly, Felipe Pierezan, Anitha Isaiah, Jan S. Suchodolski, Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann, Amelia A. Romoser, Timothy D. Phillips
Pyruvate Kinase M2 Regulates Apoptosis of Intestinal Epithelial Cells in Crohn’s Disease
Qiyun Tang, Qianqian Ji, Weiwei Xia, Liren Li, Jian’an Bai, Runzhou Ni, Yongwei Qin
Increased Numbers of Circulating ICOS+ Follicular Helper T and CD38+ Plasma Cells in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Li Wang, Xiguang Sun, Jinpeng Qiu, Yanjun Cai, Liang Ma, Pingwei Zhao, Yanfang Jiang
Bacterial Translocation and Endotoxemia After Pringle Maneuver in Cirrhotic Rats
Yonghui Su, Haiyan Pan, Zhaowang Guo, Wenying Zhou, Baimeng Zhang
Evidence for Heightened Hexokinase II Immunoexpression in Hepatocyte Dysplasia and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Grace Guzman, Rohini Chennuri, Alexander Chan, Bryan Rea, Ada Quintana, Roshan Patel, Pei-Zhang Xu, Hui Xie, Nissim Hay
Sex-Determination Gene SRY Potentially Associates with Poor Prognosis but Not Sex Bias in Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Tong-Chun Xue, Lan Zhang, Zheng-Gang Ren, Rong-Xin Chen, Jie-Feng Cui, Ning-Ling Ge, Sheng-Long Ye
Aspirin and Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug Use and the Risk of Barrett’s Esophagus
Jennifer L. Schneider, Wei K. Zhao, Douglas A. Corley
Black Esophagus: New Insights and Multicenter International Experience in 2014
Grigoriy E. Gurvits, Karen Cherian, Mohamed Nafe Shami, Ravikiran Korabathina, Emad Mokhtar Abu El-Nader, Krishna Rayapudi, Frederick J. Gandolfo, Mohammad Alshumrany, Hiren Patel, Deepshikha N. Chowdhury, Aris Tsiakos
Increasing Biopsy Number and Sampling from Gastric Body Improve the Sensitivity of Rapid Urease Test in Patients with Peptic Ulcer Bleeding
Tzong-Hsi Lee, Chien-Chu Lin, Chen-Shuan Chung, Cheng-Kuan Lin, Cheng-Chao Liang, Kuang-Chau Tsai
Helicobacter Pylori First-Line and Rescue Treatments in the Presence of Penicillin Allergy
Javier P. Gisbert, Jesús Barrio, Inés Modolell, Javier Molina-Infante, Angeles Perez Aisa, Manuel Castro-Fernández, Luis Rodrigo, Angel Cosme, Jose Luis Gisbert, Miguel Fernández-Bermejo, Santiago Marcos, Alicia C. Marín, Adrián G. McNicholl
Treatment with Immunosuppressive Therapy May Improve Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Sara Horst, Andrew Chao, Michael Rosen, Anne Nohl, Caroline Duley, Julianne H. Wagnon, Dawn B. Beaulieu, Warren Taylor, Lawrence Gaines, David A. Schwartz
Mode of Childbirth and Long-Term Outcomes in Women with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan, Alice Cheng, Andrew Cagan, Tianxi Cai, Vivian S. Gainer, Stanley Y. Shaw, Susanne Churchill, Elizabeth W. Karlson, Shawn N. Murphy, Isaac Kohane, Katherine P. Liao
Hematologic Indices as Surrogate Markers for Monitoring Thiopurine Therapy in IBD
Uri Kopylov, Robert Battat, Amine Benmassaoud, Laurence Paradis-Surprenant, Ernest G. Seidman
Fecal Calprotectin and the Clinical Activity Index Are Both Useful to Monitor Medical Treatment in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis
Emanuel Burri, Christoph Beglinger, Stefanie von Felten, Frank Serge Lehmann
The Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis
Tobias M. Nowacki, Markus Brückner, Maria Eveslage, Phil Tepasse, Friederike Pott, Nils H. Thoennissen, Karin Hengst, Matthias Ross, Dominik Bettenworth
Resect and Discard Approach to Colon Polyps: Real-World Applicability Among Academic and Community Gastroenterologists
Hongha T. Vu, Gregory S. Sayuk, Thomas G. Hollander, Jennifer Clebanoff, Steven A. Edmundowicz, Chandra P. Gyawali, Erik P. Thyssen, Leonard B. Weinstock, Dayna S. Early
DCLK1 Is Detectable in Plasma of Patients with Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Joshua Whorton, Sripathi M. Sureban, Randal May, Dongfeng Qu, Stan A. Lightfoot, Mohammad Madhoun, Milton Johnson, William M. Tierney, John T. Maple, Kenneth J. Vega, Courtney W. Houchen
Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Gastric Cancer Mortality
Constance Wang, Ann Weber, David Y. Graham
Feasibility of Self-Expandable Metal Stent Placement with Side-Viewing Endoscope for Malignant Distal Duodenal Obstruction
Jin Myung Park, Byung-Hoon Min, Sang Hyub Lee, Kwang Hyun Chung, Jae Min Lee, Byeong Jun Song, Jun Kyu Lee, Ji Kon Ryu, Yong-Tae Kim
A Single-Center Experience of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Performed in a Western Setting
Gabriel D. Lang, Vani J. A. Konda, Uzma D. Siddiqui, Ann Koons, Irving Waxman
Hypotension in the First Week of Acute Pancreatitis and APACHE II Score Predict Development of Infected Pancreatic Necrosis
Ragesh Babu Thandassery, Thakur Deen Yadav, Usha Dutta, Sreekanth Appasani, Kartar Singh, Rakesh Kochhar
Lower Yield of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration in Patients with Pancreatic Head Mass with a Biliary Stent
John J. Kim, Sukhpreet Walia, Scott H. Lee, Bhavesh Patel, Madhavi Vetsa, Yan Zhao, Wichit Srikureja, Loren Laine
Risk Factors of Open Converted Cholecystectomy for Cholelithiasis After Endoscopic Removal of Choledocholithiasis
Yong Hwan Kwon, Chang-Min Cho, Min Kyu Jung, Sang Gul Kim, Young Kook Yoon
A Comparative Evaluation of EUS-Guided Biliary Drainage and Percutaneous Drainage in Patients with Distal Malignant Biliary Obstruction and Failed ERCP
Mouen A. Khashab, Ali Kord Valeshabad, Elham Afghani, Vikesh K. Singh, Vivek Kumbhari, Ahmed Messallam, Payal Saxena, Mohamad El Zein, Anne Marie Lennon, Marcia Irene Canto, Anthony N. Kalloo
Long-Term Treatment with Tenofovir in Asian-American Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Is Associated with Abnormal Renal Phosphate Handling
Connie Tien, Jason J. Xu, Linda S. Chan, Mimi Chang, Carolina Lim, Sue Lee, Brian Huh, Shuntaro Shinada, Ho S. Bae, Tse-Ling Fong
Lower Incidence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Cirrhosis in Hepatitis C Patients with Sustained Virological Response by Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin
Chansoo Moon, Kyu Sik Jung, Do Young Kim, Oidov Baatarkhuu, Jun Yong Park, Beom Kyung Kim, Seung Up Kim, Sang Hoon Ahn, Kwang-Hyub Han
Occurrence of Hepatocellular Carcinoma upon Advanced Liver Fibrosis Thirteen Years After Achieving Sustained Virological Response to Hepatitis C: How Long Surveillance Should Be Maintained?
Gino S. Albines, Alicia Mesa, Nelson Fuentes-Martínez, Ramón Pérez, Julieta Fernández-Molina, Manuel Rodríguez, María Varela
Screening for Lynch Syndrome: It Is Time to Shift the Focus
Trilokesh D. Kidambi, Jonathan P. Terdiman