Issue 6/2023
Content (65 Articles)
Impact of Sarcopenia on Clinical Course of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Korea
Kwangwoo Nam, Jae Yong Lee, Yousun Ko, Kyung Won Kim, Ho-Su Lee, Seung Wook Hong, Jin Hwa Park, Sung Wook Hwang, Dong-Hoon Yang, Byong Duk Ye, Jeong-Sik Byoun, Seung-Jae Myung, Suk-Kyun Yang, Sang Hyoung Park
The Association Between Low Body-Mass Index and Serious Post-endoscopic Adverse Events
Netta Glaubach, Dana Ben Hur, Alexander Korytny, Yoni Isenberg, Yousef Laham, Ronit Almog, Irit Chermesh, Roni Weisshof, Haggai Bar-Yoseph
Evaluating the Relationship Between Nutrition and Post-colectomy Pouchitis in Pediatric Patients with Ulcerative Colitis
Perseus V. Patel, Emily Kao, Emily Stekol, Melvin B. Heyman, Lan Vu, Sofia G. Verstraete
Frailty Is Independently Associated with Higher Mortality and Readmissions in Patients with Acute Biliary Pancreatitis: A Nationwide Inpatient Study
Daryl Ramai, Joseph Heaton, Ahmed Abomhya, John Morris, Douglas G. Adler
Mediastinal Histoplasmosis Diagnosed by Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Biopsy
Uday Kiran Mangipudi, Reetu Kundu, Raja Ramachandran, Rajesh Gupta, Surinder Singh Rana
Ileal Acute Diverticulitis Mimicking Crohn’s Disease
Stefano Fantasia, Pablo Cortegoso Valdivia, Federica Gaiani
Post-transplant Intestinal Thrombotic Microangiopathy
Suha Abushamma, Hisham Assem
What We Talk About When We Talk About Training in Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty
Yousaf Hadi, Shailendra Singh
Wrought Iron Thresholds: How Magnetic Resonance Liver Iron Concentration Can Guide Decision-Making in Hyperferritinemic Patients
Christopher Cussen, Aftab Ala
Settling the Score: Which Fibrosis Screening Tool Is the Most Reliable for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?
Halim Bou Daher, Paul Manka, Wing-Kin Syn
Everything that You Always Wanted to Know About the Management of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tubes (but Were Afraid to Ask)
Dana Ley, Sumona Saha
Novel Diagnostic Techniques in the Evaluation of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Sabrina J. Layne, Zachary S. Lorsch, Amit Patel
Anticoagulation in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis: Friend or Foe?
Adonis A. Protopapas, Christos Savopoulos, Lemonia Skoura, Ioannis Goulis
Looking from the Past to the Future: How Janus Kinase Inhibitors Have Altered the Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis
Tenzin Choden, Russell D. Cohen
Maintenance Proton Pump Inhibitor Use Associated with Increased All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality in Sweden
Sharon Ngwenya, Johanna Simin, Nele Brusselaers
Optimizing Endoscopy Procedure Documentation Improves Guideline-Adherent Care in Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Timothy Yen, Blake Jones, Jeannine M. Espinoza, Sarguni Singh, Jonathan Pell, Anna Duloy, Sachin Wani, Frank I. Scott, Swati G. Patel
Successful Design and Implementation of a POEM Program for Achalasia in an Integrated Healthcare System
Lawrence Jun Leung, Gene K. Ma, Jeffrey K. Lee, Norio Fukami, Howard Chang, Jonathan Svahn, Ming-Ming Xu, Steven Lam, Amita Risbud, Terry L. Jue
Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Assisted by Postgraduate Medical Trainees: An Early Safety Analysis
Anuragh Gudur, Alexander Podboy
Patients with IBD Want to Talk About Sleep and Treatments for Insomnia with Their Gastroenterologist
Jessica K. Salwen-Deremer, Cassandra M. Godzik, Christina H. Jagielski, Corey A. Siegel, Michael T. Smith
Patient Attitudes and Barriers to Endoscopy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gulchin A. Ergun, Shaadi Abughazaleh, Kerri Glassner, Suzanne Kuhlman, Adriana Ordonez
Effect of Mailed Fecal Immunochemical Test Outreach for Patients Newly Eligible for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Shohei Burns, Jon Wang, Ma Somsouk
Ulcerative Colitis-Symptom Questionnaire: Valid for Use in Adults with Moderately to Severely Active Ulcerative Colitis
Julian Panes, Anthony Otley, Yuri Sanchez Gonzalez, Kristina Fitzgerald, Wen Zhou, Dapo Ilo, Triza Brion, Muna J. Tahir
A Comparative Trial of Improving Care for Underserved Asian Americans Infected with Hepatitis B Virus
Grace X. Ma, Lin Zhu, Yin Tan, Shumenghui Zhai, Xiaoli Ma, Olorunseun O. Ogunwobi, Wei Jenny Yang, Tsunyou Ting, Sara Kim, Min Qi Wang
Clinical Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Transfer in Admitted Patients with Cirrhosis
Matthew Dukewich, Chung-Heng Liu, Ethan M Weinberg, Nadim Mahmud, K. Rajender Reddy
Accurate Identification of Patients with Cirrhosis and Its Complications in the Electronic Health Record
Ali Khalifa, Jihad S. Obeid, Mathew J. Gregoski, Don C. Rockey
Developing a Novel Case-Based Gastroenterology/Hepatology Online Resource for Enhanced Education During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Morgan C. Goodman, Jaclyn H. Chesner, Kamron Pourmand, Samira S. Farouk, Brijen J. Shah, Bhavana Bhagya Rao
Utility of an Artificial Intelligence Enabled Electrocardiogram for Risk Assessment in Liver Transplant Candidates
Himesh B. Zaver, Obaie Mzaik, Jonathan Thomas, Joanna Roopkumar, Demilade Adedinsewo, Andrew P. Keaveny, Tushar Patel
Barriers to Lactulose Adherence in Patients with Cirrhosis and Hepatic Encephalopathy
Kenneth W. Chow, Brittney M. Ibrahim, Jung J. Yum, An Dang, Long Dang, Kuan-Ting Chen, Nicholas J. Jackson, Sammy Saab
Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Nonattendance at the Hepatology Clinic
Louma Basma Rustam, Mark Vander Weg, Elizabeth Chrischilles, Tomohiro Tanaka
Food-Specific IgG4 Is Elevated Throughout the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract in Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Mia Y. Masuda, William E. LeSuer, Jennifer L. Horsley-Silva, Arina Putikova, Matthew R. Buras, Jessica B. Gibson, Grace C. Pyon, Temeka D. Simmons, Alfred D. Doyle, Benjamin L. Wright
Activation of the High-Affinity Choline Transporter 1 in the Spinal Cord Relieves Stress-Induced Hyperalgesia
Mengjuan Lin, Guiying Hu, Zhengqiang Wang, Baoping Yu, Wei Tan
Effect of Clostridium butyricum on High-Fat Diet-Induced Intestinal Inflammation and Production of Short-Chain Fatty Acids
Yonghoon Choi, Soo In Choi, Nayoung Kim, Ryoung Hee Nam, Jae Young Jang, Hee Young Na, Cheol Min Shin, Dong Ho Lee, Huitae Min, Yeon-Ran Kim, Yeong-Jae Seok
Neuropeptide W Exhibits Preventive and Therapeutic Effects on Acetic Acid-Induced Colitis via Modulation of the Cyclooxygenase Enzyme System
Sevil Arabacı Tamer, Selin Akbulut, Ömer Erdoğan, Özge Çevik, Feriha Ercan, Berrak Ç. Yeğen
Inverse Relationship Between Clock Gene Expression and Inflammatory Markers in Ulcerative Colitis Patients Undergoing Remission
Y. Weintraub, S. Cohen, A. Anafy, N. Chapnik, S. Tsameret, A. Ben-Tov, A. Yerushalmy-Feler, I. Dotan, R. Tauman, O. Froy
H3K27me3 Inactivates SFRP1 to Promote Cell Proliferation via Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Menghan Zhou, Shenling Yu, Yue Liu, Shihui Shu, Ying Xu, Min Liu, Yanping Ge, Hong Fan
Inflammation of Mesenteric Adipose Tissue Correlates with Intestinal Injury and Disease Severity in Rats with Severe Acute Pancreatitis
Qing Huang, Jiawen Liu, Zhiyong Zhou, Mingjun Zhang, Yutang Ren, Xuan Jiang, Bo Jiang
Gastroenterologist Primer: Endometriosis for Gastroenterologists
Vanessa Yu, Nicole McHenry, Samantha Proctor, Jacqueline Wolf, Judy Nee
Comparable Short-Term Weight Loss and Safety of Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty in Diabetic and Non-diabetic Patients
Hassam Ali, Fouad Jaber, Pratik Patel, Dushyant Singh Dahiya, Shiza Sarfraz, Saeed Graham, Muhammad Fahd Farooq, Babu P. Mohan, Douglas G. Adler
Defecatory Function Studies Using the Fecobionics Device Are Repeatable
Kar Man Lo, Daming Sun, Ssu-Chi Chen, Wing Wa Leung, Cherry Wong, Tony Mak, Simon Ng, Kaori Futaba, Hans Gregersen
Concise Commentary: Testing the Reliability and Accuracy of the Fecobionics Device
Eric D. Shah
Management of Intractable Functional Constipation in Children by Interferential Therapy: Transabdominal or Pelvic Floor
Seyedeh-Sanam Ladi-Seyedian, Lida Sharifi-Rad, Azizollah Yousefi, Hosein Alimadadi, Fatemeh Farahmand, Farzaneh Motamed
Over-the-Scope Clips Versus Standard Endoscopic Treatment for First Line Therapy of Non-variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Alec E. Faggen, Faisal Kamal, Wade Lee-Smith, Muhammad Ali Khan, Sachit Sharma, Ashu Acharya, Zohaib Ahmed, Umer Farooq, Alexis Bayudan, Richard McLean, Patrick Avila, Sun-Chuan Dai, Craig A. Munroe, Abdul Kouanda
Impact of Traction Direction in Traction-Assisted Gastric Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (with Videos)
Mitsuru Nagata, Masayuki Namiki, Tomoaki Fujikawa, Hiromi Munakata
Performance of Balloon-Assisted Enteroscopy for Non-ERCP Indications in Patients with Surgically Altered Gastrointestinal Anatomy
Ji Hee Song, Seong Ran Jeon, Jin Su Kim, Bo-In Lee, Jin-Oh Kim, Han Hee Lee
Usefulness of Acetic Acid Spray with Narrow-Band Imaging for Identifying the Margin of Sessile Serrated Lesions
Yoshiyasu Kono, Reiji Higashi, Hidetaka Mizushima, Daisuke Shimizu, Tetsuya Katayama, Masanari Kosaka, Issei Hirata, Tetsu Hirata, Tatsuhiro Gotoda, Koji Miyahara, Yuki Moritou, Masaki Kunihiro, Masahiro Nakagawa, Koichi Ichimura, Hiroyuki Okada
Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection Facilitating Techniques Among Non-experts: A Systematic Literature Review
Kavel Visrodia, Akira Dobashi, Fateh Bazerbachi, John Poneros, Amrita Sethi
Irritable Bowel Syndrome Is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Polyps and Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Theodoros Vichos, Ali Rezaie, Petros Vichos, Brooks Cash, Mark Pimentel
Thromboembolic Events in Hospitalized Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Alfred D. Nelson, Daniela Fluxá, Freddy Caldera, Francis A. Farraye, Jana G. Hashash, Paul T. Kröner
Efficacy and Safety of Dual Targeted Therapy for Partially or Non-responsive Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Elliot M. Berinstein, Jessica L Sheehan, Janson Jacob, Calen A. Steiner, Ryan W. Stidham, Carol Shannon, Shrinivas Bishu, Jake Levine, Shirley A. Cohen-Mekelburg, Akbar K. Waljee, Peter D. R. Higgins, Jeffrey A. Berinstein
Impact of Concomitant Corticosteroids on Tofacitinib Induction Efficacy and Infection Rates in Ulcerative Colitis
Gary R. Lichtenstein, Benjamin L. Cohen, Leonardo Salese, Irene Modesto, Wenjin Wang, Gary Chan, Haytham Mohamed Ahmed, Chinyu Su, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet
Comparative Efficacy of Infliximab Versus Tofacitinib for Inducing Remission in Biologic Naive Ulcerative Colitis: A Propensity Matched Study
Emily C. L. Wong, Shahin Merat, Cristina Monaco, Parambir S. Dulai, Vipul Jairath, John K. Marshall, Walter Reinisch, Neeraj Narula
Ustekinumab Trough Concentrations Are Associated with Biochemical Outcomes in Patients with Crohn’s Disease
Tessa Straatmijer, Vince B. C. Biemans, Dirk Jan A. R. Moes, Frank Hoentjen, Rob ter Heine, P. W. Jeroen Maljaars, Rosaline Theeuwen, Marieke Pierik, Marjolijn Duijvestein, Andrea E. van der Meulen-de Jong
Vedolizumab and Adalimumab in Biologic-Naïve Ulcerative Colitis: Comparison of Patient-Level Clinical Trial Data and VARSITY for Week 6 Clinical Remission
Neeraj Narula, Emily C. L. Wong, Parambir S. Dulai, John K. Marshall, Vipul Jairath, Walter Reinisch
Smoking Is Associated with Worse Clinical Outcomes in Chronic Pancreatitis
Anabel Liyen Cartelle, Rachel L. Bocchino, Ishani Shah, William Yakah, Awais Ahmed, Steven D. Freedman, Darshan J. Kothari, Sunil G. Sheth
Mortality Trends, Outcomes, and Predictors of Portal Vein Thrombosis in Acute Pancreatitis Patients: A Propensity-Matched National Study
Rajat Garg, Abdul Mohammed, Amandeep Singh, Hassan Siddiki, Amit Bhatt, Madhusudhan R. Sanaka, Sunguk Jang, C. Roberto Simons-Linares, Tyler Stevens, John Vargo, Prabhleen Chahal
Prognostic Factors for Non-anastomotic Biliary Strictures Following Adult Liver Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Matthew Fasullo, Sami Ghazaleh, Wasef Sayeh, Ravi Vachhani, Tamta Chkhikvadze, Tamas Gonda, Eileen Janec, Lauren Khanna, Gregory Haber, Tilak Shah
Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis and Advanced Liver Disease Have the Lowest Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Jessica Dahmus, Breianna Hummer, Gloriany Rivas, Kathryn Schmitz, Stephen H. Caldwell, Curtis K. Argo, Ian Schreibman, Jonathan G. Stine
Magnetic Resonance Liver Iron Concentration Can Guide Venesection Decision-Making in Hyperferritinemia
Meha Bhuva, Ilse Patterson, Edmund M. Godfrey, David J. Bowden, William J. H. Griffiths
Cholestatic Pruritus Treatments in Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: A Systematic Literature Review
Helen T. Smith, Andrea Ribeiro de Souza, April H. Thompson, Megan M. McLaughlin, John J. Dever, Julie A. Myers, Jing Voon Chen
Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Reduces the Severity of COVID-19 in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B
Beatriz Mateos-Muñoz, María Buti, Inmaculada Fernández Vázquez, Marta Hernández Conde, Vanesa Bernal-Monterde, Fernando Díaz-Fontenla, Rosa María Morillas, Luisa García-Buey, Ester Badía, Mireia Miquel, Alberto Amador-Navarrete, Sergio Rodríguez-Tajes, Lucía Ramos-Merino, Antonio Madejón, Montserrat García-Retortillo, Juan Ignacio Arenas, Joaquín Cabezas, Jesús Manuel González Santiago, Conrado Fernández-Rodríguez, Patricia Cordero, Moisés Diago, Antonio Mancebo, Alberto Pardo, Manuel Rodríguez, Elena Hoyas, Jose Javier Moreno, Juan Turnes, Miguel Ángel Simón, Cristina Marcos-Fosch, Jose Luis Calleja, Rafael Bañares, Sabela Lens, Javier Garcia-Samaniego, Javier Crespo, Manuel Romero-Gomez, Francisco Gea, Enrique Rodríguez de Santiago, Santiago Moreno, Agustin Albillos
Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir Is Effective as Sole Treatment of Porphyria Cutanea Tarda with Chronic Hepatitis C
Herbert L. Bonkovsky, Sean P. Rudnick, Christopher D. Ma, Jessica R. Overbey, Kelly Wang, Denise Faust, Csilla Hallberg, Karli Hedstrom, Hetanshi Naik, Akshata Moghe, Karl E. Anderson
Prognostic Effects of Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis Determined Using Transient Elastography in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B or C
Chun-Li Wang, Chien-Hao Huang, Victor Chien-Chia Wu, Chia-Ling Wu, Yu-Tung Huang, Shang-Hung Chang
Comparative Accuracy of Clinical Fibrosis Markers, Hepascore and Fibroscan® to Detect Advanced Fibrosis in Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Luis C. Bertot, Gary P. Jeffrey, Bastiaan de Boer, Zhengyi Wang, Yi Huang, George Garas, Gerry MacQuillan, Michael Wallace, Briohny W. Smith, Leon A. Adams
MTM-HCC at Previous Liver Resection as a Predictor of Overall Survival in Salvage Liver Transplantation
Yong Yang, Ji-Han Sun, Xiao-Yu Tan, Cai-De Lu, Zhi-Ping Huang, Hong-Da Zhu, Xiao-Ting Shi, Jian-Xiong Chen, Jiong-Ze Fang