Issue 10/2011
Content (45 Articles)
Small Bowel Evaluation in Asymptomatic Fecal Immunochemical Test-Positive Patients with a Negative Colonoscopy: Is It Necessary?
Jae Jun Park, Jae Hee Cheon
Isn’t It Time to Stop Talking About Colonoscopy Quality and Start Doing Something About It?
Swati G. Patel, Dennis J. Ahnen
Acute Liver Failure in a Pediatric Patient with Disseminated Tuberculosis
Jane Whitney, Melissa Hurwitz, Amirkaveh Mojtahed, Christine Hwang, Amy Gallo
Prospective Controlled Assessment of Impact of Feedback on Gastroenterology Trainees in Outpatient Practice
Gavin C. Harewood
Prospective Assessment of Out-of-Pocket Patient-Related Cost for ERCP at an Urban Tertiary Care Medical Center
C. Mel Wilcox, Roshan Patel, Chad Burski, Shyam Varadarajulu, Meredith Kilgore
Inappropriate Angiogenic Response as a Novel Mechanism of Duodenal Ulceration and Impaired Healing
Xiaoming Deng, Ximing Xiong, Tetyana Khomenko, Zsuzsanna Sandor, Klara Osapay, Ganna Tolstanova, Joseph Shiloach, Longchuan Chen, Judah Folkman, Sandor Szabo
Increase in the Tight Junction Protein Claudin-1 in Intestinal Inflammation
Lisa S. Poritz, Leonard R. Harris III, Ashley A. Kelly, Walter A. Koltun
The Protective Effect of the Recombinant 53-kDa Protein of Trichinella spiralis on Experimental Colitis in Mice
Linlin Du, Hao Tang, Zhongfu Ma, Jia Xu, Wenchao Gao, Jiajia Chen, Wenjia Gan, Zhaoping Zhang, Xinbing Yu, Xingwang Zhou, Xuchu Hu
Adiponectin and Plant-Derived Mammalian Adiponectin Homolog Exert a Protective Effect in Murine Colitis
Violeta Arsenescu, Meena L. Narasimhan, Tuna Halide, Ray A. Bressan, Chiara Barisione, Donald A. Cohen, Willem J. S. de Villiers, Razvan Arsenescu
NaOH-Induced Crohn’s Colitis in Rats: A Novel Experimental Model
Erdem Koçak, Seyfettin Köklü, Erdem Akbal, Adnan Taş, Gökhan Karaca, Müzeyyen Hesna Astarcı, Berrak Güven, Murat Can
Helicobacter bilis Colonization Enhances Susceptibility to Typhlocolitis Following an Inflammatory Trigger
Zhiping Liu, Amanda E. Ramer-Tait, Abigail L. Henderson, Cumhur Yusuf Demirkale, Dan Nettleton, Chong Wang, Jesse M. Hostetter, Albert E. Jergens, Michael J. Wannemuehler
Epigenetic Silencing of MicroRNA-375 Regulates PDK1 Expression in Esophageal Cancer
Xiaoli Li, Rui Lin, Jiansheng Li
Lifestyle Change Influences on GERD in Japan: A Study of Participants in a Health Examination Program
Tetsuya Murao, Kouichi Sakurai, Syuuichi Mihara, Toru Marubayashi, Yoshitaka Murakami, Yutaka Sasaki
Expression of IFN-γ and IL-4 in the Esophageal Mucosa of Patients with Reflux Esophagitis and Barrett’s Esophagus and Their Relationship with Endoscopic and Histologic Grading
Ying-Qiang Zhong, Ying Lin, Zhe Xu
Algorithmic Approach to Patients Presenting with Heartburn and Epigastric Pain Refractory to Empiric Proton Pump Inhibitor Therapy
Andrew K. Roorda, Samuel N. Marcus, George Triadafilopoulos
Flexible Spectral Imaging Color Enhancement (FICE) Is Useful to Discriminate Among Non-neoplastic Lesion, Adenoma, and Cancer of Stomach
Sung Won Jung, Kyu Seong Lim, Jun Uk Lim, Jung Won Jeon, Hyun Phil Shin, Se Hyun Kim, Eun Kyeong Lee, Jae Jun Park, Jae Myung Cha, Kwang Ro Joo, Joung Il Lee
Enhanced Expression of CXCL13 in Human Helicobacter pylori-Associated Gastritis
Yujiro Nakashima, Hajime Isomoto, Kayoko Matsushima, Akira Yoshida, Toshiyuki Nakayama, Masaaki Nakayama, Junzo Hisatsune, Tatsuki Ichikawa, Fuminao Takeshima, Tomayoshi Hayashi, Kazuhiko Nakao, Toshiya Hirayama, Shigeru Kohno
Feasibility of Forward-Viewing Upper Endoscopy for Detection of the Major Duodenal Papilla
Woo Young Hew, Kwang Ro Joo, Jae Myung Cha, Hyun Phil Shin, Joung Il Lee, Jae Jun Park, Jun Uk Lim
Evaluation of Different Bowel Preparations for Small Bowel Capsule Endoscopy: A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled Study
Vicente Pons Beltrán, Begoña González Suárez, Cecilia González Asanza, Enrique Pérez-Cuadrado, Servando Fernández Diez, Iñaqui Fernández-Urién, Alfredo Mata Bilbao, Jorge Carlos Espinós Pérez, Maria Jose Pérez Grueso, Lidia Argüello Viudez, Julio Valle Muñoz, Fernando Carballo Alvarez, Miguel Muñoz-Navas, Jose Llach Vila, Juan Andrés Ramírez Armengol, Joaquin Balanzó Tintoré, Teresa Sala Felis, Pedro Menchen Fernández-Pacheco
Magnetic Resonance Enterography: Safe and Effective Imaging for Stricturing Crohn’s Disease
Christina Y. Ha, Nitin Kumar, Constantine A. Raptis, Vamsi R. Narra, Matthew A. Ciorba
CT-Enterography May Identify Small Bowel Tumors Not Detected by Capsule Endoscopy: Eight Years Experience at Mayo Clinic Rochester
Fayaz A. Hakim, Jeffrey A. Alexander, James E. Huprich, Madhusudan Grover, Felicity T. Enders
Clinical Characteristics of Small Bowel Tumors Diagnosed by Double-Balloon Endoscopy: KASID Multi-Center Study
Bo-In Lee, Hwang Choi, Kyu-Yong Choi, Jeong-Sik Byeon, Hyun-Joo Jang, Chang-Soo Eun, Jae Hee Cheon, Sung Jae Shin, Jin-Oh Kim, Moon-Sung Lee, Jai-Hyun Choi
Generalized Transit Delay on Wireless Motility Capsule Testing in Patients with Clinical Suspicion of Gastroparesis, Small Intestinal Dysmotility, or Slow Transit Constipation
Braden Kuo, Monthira Maneerattanaporn, Allen A. Lee, Jason R. Baker, Stephen M. Wiener, William D. Chey, Gregory E. Wilding, William L. Hasler
Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial of Rifaximin for Persistent Symptoms in Patients with Celiac Disease
Matthew S. Chang, Maria T. Minaya, Jianfeng Cheng, Bradley A. Connor, Suzanne K. Lewis, Peter H. R. Green
Is the Colonic Response to Food Different in IBS in Contrast to Simple Constipation or Diarrhea Without Abdominal Pain?
Michel Bouchoucha, Ghislain Devroede, Jean-Jacques Raynaud, Cyriaque Bon, Bakhtiar Bejou, Robert Benamouzig
Fecal Detection of Mycobacterium avium Paratuberculosis Using the IS900 DNA Sequence in Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis Patients and Healthy Subjects
Anna Tuci, Francesca Tonon, Lucia Castellani, Alessandro Sartini, Giulia Roda, Margherita Marocchi, Alessandra Caponi, Alessandra Munarini, Giancarlo Rosati, Giampaolo Ugolini, Lorenzo Fuccio, Michele Scagliarini, Franco Bazzoli, Andrea Belluzzi
Efficacy and Tolerability of Split-Dose PEG Compared with Split-Dose Aqueous Sodium Phosphate for Outpatient Colonoscopy: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
Eun Hee Seo, Tae Oh Kim, Tae Gyoon Kim, Hee Rin Joo, Min Jae Park, Jongha Park, Seung Ha Park, Sung Yeon Yang, Young Soo Moon
Disease-Specific Knowledge, Coping, and Adherence in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Anilga Moradkhani, Lauren Kerwin, Sharon Dudley-Brown, James H. Tabibian
Effectiveness of Endoclips for the Treatment of Stigmata of Recent Hemorrhage in the Colon of Patients with Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Bleeding
Atul Kumar, Everson Artifon, Adrienne Chu, Bhawna Halwan
The Impact of Time Elapsed Between Endoscopic Ultrasound and Esophagectomy on Concordance of Ultrasonographic and Pathologic Staging of Esophageal Malignancy
Jessica M. Fisher, Heiko Pohl, Stuart R. Gordon, Timothy B. Gardner
Aberrant Methylation of Different DNA Repair Genes Demonstrates Distinct Prognostic Value for Esophageal Cancer
Zhi-Qiang Ling, Pei Li, Ming-Hua Ge, Fu-Jun Hu, Xian-Hua Fang, Zi-Min Dong, Wei-Min Mao
Application of Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging Using a Polymeric Nanoparticle-Based Probe for the Diagnosis and Therapeutic Monitoring of Colon Cancer
Soon Man Yoon, Seung-Jae Myung, In-Wha Kim, Eun-Ju Do, Byong Duk Ye, Ju Hee Ryu, Kyeongsoon Park, Kwangmeyung Kim, Ick Chan Kwon, Mi Jung Kim, Dae Hyuk Moon, Dong-Hoon Yang, Kyoung Jo Kim, Jeong-Sik Byeon, Suk-Kyun Yang, Jin-Ho Kim
Validation of the Psychometric Hepatic Encephalopathy Score (PHES) for Identifying Patients with Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy
Andrés Duarte-Rojo, José Estradas, Roberto Hernández-Ramos, Sergio Ponce-de-León, Juan Córdoba, Aldo Torre
Direct Medical Care Costs Among Pegylated Interferon Plus Ribavirin-Treated and Untreated Chronic Hepatitis C Patients
M. Solomon, M. Bonafede, K. Pan, K. Wilson, C. Beam, P. Chakravarti, B. Spiegel
Consensus Interferon Used to Treat Prior Partial-Responders to Pegylated Interferon Plus Ribavirin
Christopher M. Moore, Magdalena George, David H. Van Thiel
Comparison of FIB-4 and APRI in HIV–HCV Coinfected Patients with Normal and Elevated ALT
Amy G. Shah, Paula G. Smith, Richard K. Sterling
Plasma Free Myristic Acid Proportion Is a Predictor of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
Kengo Tomita, Toshiaki Teratani, Hirokazu Yokoyama, Takahiro Suzuki, Rie Irie, Hirotoshi Ebinuma, Hidetsugu Saito, Ryota Hokari, Soichiro Miura, Toshifumi Hibi
Acoustic Liver Biopsy in Patients with Hepatitis C and Advanced Liver Fibrosis Using Endoscopic Ultrasound
Anil Vegesna, Amer Nazir, Chan Y. Chung, Saul Kane, Rebecca Thomas, Larry Miller
Prophylactic Pancreatic Stents: Does Size Matter? A Comparison of 4-Fr and 5-Fr Stents in Reference to Post-ERCP Pancreatitis and Migration Rate
Albert Pahk, Johanne Rigaux, Vijay Poreddy, Joan Smith, Firas Al-Kawas
Aberrant CpG Island Hypermethylation and Down-Regulation of Oct-6 mRNA Expression in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Jing-zhe Sun, Xue-xi Yang, Xiang-hong Li, Wei-wen Xu, Ying Wang, Wei Zhu, Ming Li
Small HCCs Identified by Screening
Petr Pancoska, Massimo De Giorgio, Stefano Fagiuoli, Brian I. Carr
Tumor Marker Levels Before and After Curative Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma as Predictors of Patient Survival
Atsushi Nanashima, Naota Taura, Takafumi Abo, Tatsuki Ichikawa, Ichiro Sakamoto, Takeshi Nagayasu, Kazuhiko Nakao
Tracheal Aspiration of Capsule Endoscopes: Completing a Cases Compilation
Anastasios Koulaouzidis, Sarah Douglas, John N. Plevris