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Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Issue 9/2023

Content (45 Articles)

Sarcoidosis Image of the Month

Gastric Sarcoidosis Flare After Years of Remission Following COVID Infection

Trilokesh D. Kidambi, Reza Manesh, Rifat Mannan

Helminths Image of the Month

Endoscopic Diagnosis of Biliary Fascioliasis in Non-endemic Region

Shankar Roy, Abhishek Mewara, Rajesh Gupta, Surinder Singh Rana

Autoimmune Pancreatitis Image of the Month

Autoimmune Pancreatitis Mimicking Neuroendocrine Tumor of Pancreas

Gaurav Sharma, Ritambhra Nada, Pranab Dey, Rajender Kumar Basher, Rajesh Gupta, Surinder Singh Rana

Open Access Fatty Liver Invited Commentary

Liver, Heart, Death… Can This Sequence Be Broken?

Paul Manka

Colorectal Cancer Paradigm Shifts in Perspective

Serendipity Strikes: How Pursuing Novel Hypotheses Shifted the Paradigm Regarding the Genetic Basis of Colorectal Cancer and Changed Cancer Therapy

C. Richard Boland, Minoru Koi, Mary T. Hawn, John M. Carethers, Matthew B. Yurgelun

Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Current Clinical Controversy

The Many Faces of Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Controversy Abounds

Brian J. Wentworth, Rachita Khot, Stephen H. Caldwell

Mixed Esophageal Disease (MED): A New Concept

George Triadafilopoulos, Hiroshi Mashimo, Roger Tatum, John O’Clarke, Mary Hawn

Pre-Eclampsia Brief Report

Decreased Risk of Preeclampsia in Women with Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy

Nisha B. Patel, Daniela Guerrero Vinsard, Andrea G. Kattah, Sunanda V. Kane

Sweet's Syndrome Brief Report

Sweet Syndrome Associated with Active Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Case Series of a Rare Extra-intestinal Manifestation

Joseph Sleiman, Mihir Patel, Muhammad Zarrar Khan, Katherine Falloon, Benjamin Cohen, Benjamin Click, Urmi Khanna, Anthony P. Fernandez, Florian Rieder

Mood Disorders Brief Report

Chronic Pain and Mood Disorders Are Not Barriers to Symptom Improvement Under Collaborative Co-managed Care (C3)

Emily V. Wechsler, Pablo Martinez-Camblor, Michael A. Curley, Eric D. Shah

Eosinophilic Esophagitis Histologic Scoring System: Correlation with Histologic, Endoscopic, and Symptomatic Disease and Clinical Use

Ryan G. Alexander, Karthik Ravi, Margaret H. Collins, Crystal J. Lavey, Diana L. Snyder, Ryan J. Lennon, Blake A. Kassmeyer, David A. Katzka, Jeffrey A. Alexander

Ileocolonoscopy Original Article

Suboptimal Guideline Adherence and Biomarker Underutilization in Monitoring of Post-operative Crohn’s Disease

Terry Li, Benjamin Click, Salam Bachour, Michael Sachs, Edward L. Barnes, Benjamin L. Cohen, Susell Contreras, Jordan Axelrad

Influence of Frailty in Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography for Biliary Stone Disease: A Nationwide Study

Daryl Ramai, Joseph Heaton, Andrew Ofosu, Paraskevas Gkolfakis, Saurabh Chandan, Alberto Tringali, Monique T. Barakat, Cesare Hassan, Alessandro Repici, Antonio Facciorusso

Original Article

Predictive Factors for the Outcome of Unsupervised Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection During the Initial Learning Curve with Prevalence-Based Indication

Ingo Steinbrück, Siegbert Faiss, Franz Ludwig Dumoulin, Tsuneo Oyama, Jürgen Pohl, Thomas von Hahn, Arthur Schmidt, Hans-Peter Allgaier

Hepatic Encephalopathy Original Article

CAREGIVER Randomized Trial of Two Mindfulness Methods to Improve the Burden and Distress of Caring for Persons with Cirrhosis

Elliot B. Tapper, Zachary M. Saleh, Sofia Lizza, Xi Chen, Samantha Nikirk, Marina Serper

Diabetes Original Article

Diabetes Status and Pancreatic Cancer Survival in the Nationwide Veterans Affairs Healthcare System

Natalia Khalaf, Jennifer Kramer, Yan Liu, Daniela Abrams, Hardeep Singh, Hashem El-Serag, Fasiha Kanwal

Esophageal Inlet Patch: Association with Barrett’s Esophagus

Rishabh Khatri, Jay Patel, Jun Song, Zubair Malik, Michael S. Smith, Henry P. Parkman

Original Article

Clinical Outcomes of Follow-Up Observation After Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Invading the Muscularis Mucosa Without Lymphovascular Involvement

Naoto Iwai, Osamu Dohi, Shinya Yamada, Tsugitaka Ishida, Akifumi Fukui, Ryusuke Horie, Takeshi Yasuda, Nobuhisa Yamada, Yusuke Horii, Atsushi Majima, Keika Zen, Nobuaki Yagi, Yuji Naito, Yoshito Itoh

Original Article

WallFlex® and Evolution® Duodenal Stents Have Similar Efficacy but Different Safety for Malignant Gastric Outlet Obstruction

Antoine Meyer, Antoine Martin, Christophe Bellanger, Franck Carbonnel, Isabelle Boytchev

New Alternative? Self-Assembling Peptide in Gastrointestinal Bleeding: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Banreet Singh Dhindsa, Kyaw Min Tun, Kyle J. Scholten, Smit Deliwala, Yassin Naga, Amaninder Dhaliwal, Daryl Ramai, Syed Mohsin Saghir, Dushyant Singh Dahiya, Saurabh Chandan, Shailender Singh, Douglas G. Adler

Ustekinumab Original Article

Efficacy and Safety of IL-12/23 and IL-23 Inhibitors for Crohn’s Disease: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Sudheer Kumar Vuyyuru, Virginia Solitano, Malcolm Hogan, John K. MacDonald, Alexa Zayadi, Claire E. Parker, Bruce E. Sands, Remo Panaccione, Neeraj Narula, Brian G. Feagan, Siddharth Singh, Vipul Jairath, Christopher Ma

Appendectomy Original Article

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: A Prior Appendectomy Does Not Increase the Risk of Severe Clostridioides difficile Infection or Recurrence

Yassin Shams Eldien Naga, Banreet Singh Dhindsa, Jay Bapaye, Kyaw Min Tun, Amaninder Dhaliwal, Daryl Ramai, Syed Mohsin Saghir, Saurabh Chandan, Douglas G. Adler

Colonoscopy Original Article

Neoplasia Diagnosis After Multi-target Stool DNA Is Enhanced Among Lowest Baseline Detectors

Derek W. Ebner, Kelli N. Burger, Douglas W. Mahoney, Brendan T. Broderick, Jason D. Eckmann, Mary E. Devens, Kari L. Lowrie, John B. League, Jamie Bering, Allon Kahn, Eduardo A. Rodriguez, David O. Prichard, Michael B. Wallace, Sunanda V. Kane, Jonathan A. Leighton, Navtej S. Buttar, Lila J. Finney Rutten, Suryakanth R. Gurudu, John B. Kisiel

Laser Original Article

Comparable Efficacy of Laser-Cut and Braided Self Expanding Metallic Biliary Stent: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Priyadarshini Loganathan, Saurabh Chandan, Babu P. Mohan, Shreyas Saligram, Douglas G. Adler

Fatty Liver Original Article

Fibrosis-4 Index Score Predicts Concomitant Coronary Artery Diseases Across the Spectrum of Fatty Liver Disease

Bridgette B. McNally, Pooja Rangan, Karn Wijarnpreecha, Michael B. Fallon

Ultrasound Original Article

Performance of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Versus Percutaneous Liver Biopsy in Diagnosing Stage 3–4 Fibrosis

Alyssa Y. Choi, Xiaodong Li, Wenchang Guo, Vishal S. Chandan, Jason Samarasena, John G. Lee, Kenneth J. Chang, Ke-Qin Hu

Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Subtypes on the Post-liver Transplant Outcomes of Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

David Uihwan Lee, Samantha Menegas, Ki Jung Lee, Alex Pu, Kuntal Bhowmick, Reid Ponder, Gregory Hongyuan Fan, Harrison Chou, KeeSeok Lee, Nathalie H. Urrunaga

Fatty Liver Original Article

A Machine Learning Method to Identify the Risk Factors for Liver Fibrosis Progression in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis

Miguel Suárez, Raquel Martínez, Ana María Torres, Beatriz Torres, Jorge Mateo

Original Article

Survival Benefit of Solid-Organ Transplantation: 10-Year Update

Liam D. Ferreira, Cameron Goff, Spoorthi Kamepalli, Ashley E. Montgomery, John James Miggins, John A. Goss, Abbas Rana

Correspondence

Caution When Interpreting Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Outcomes from Surgery-Based Databases

Carlos Paolo D. Francisco, Anna Carolina Hoff, Nonthalee Pausawasdi, Ravishankar Asokkumar

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Obesity Clinical Trial Summary

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.

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Highlights from the ACC 2024 Congress

Year in Review: Pediatric cardiology

Watch Dr. Anne Marie Valente present the last year's highlights in pediatric and congenital heart disease in the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Pulmonary vascular disease

The last year's highlights in pulmonary vascular disease are presented by Dr. Jane Leopold in this official video from ACC.24.

Year in Review: Valvular heart disease

Watch Prof. William Zoghbi present the last year's highlights in valvular heart disease from the official ACC.24 Year in Review session.

Year in Review: Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Watch this official video from ACC.24. Dr. Biykem Bozkurt discusses last year's major advances in heart failure and cardiomyopathies.