Bloom, Patricia P Ventoso, Martin Tapper, Elliot Ha, Jasmine Richter, James M
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Digestive diseases and sciences
Patients with cirrhosis and ascites experience frequent hospital admissions, leading to poor quality of life and high healthcare costs. Monitoring weight is a component of ascites care and telemonitoring may improve outcomes and costs. Goals We aimed to evaluate the cost and outcomes of current care compared to a telemonitoring system for ascites. ...
Bamias, Giorgos Kokkotis, Georgios Gizis, Michalis Kapizioni, Christina Karmiris, Konstantinos Koureta, Evgenia Kyriakos, Nikolaos Leonidakis, Georgios Makris, Konstantinos Markopoulos, Panagiotis
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Digestive diseases and sciences
Optimization of treatment with biologics is currently an unmet need for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). Real-world studies provide neutral estimates of drug efficacy and safety within unselected patient populations and allow for the recognition of specific characteristics that affect response to therapy. We aimed to depict the efficacy of ve...
Lui, Jennifer Y Chapman, Christopher G Waxman, Irving Siddiqui, Uzma D
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Digestive diseases and sciences
The challenging disinfection process for the elevator mechanism on duodenoscopes and linear echoendoscopes has been identified as a source of clinically significant bacterial transmission. Despite increased awareness, there continues to be a lack of definitive guidelines for bacterial culturing protocols for elevator-containing endoscopes. To compa...
Anand, Gobind S Youssef, Fady Liu, Lin Bustamante, Ranier Earles, Ashley Vege, Santhi Swaroop Savides, Thomas Fehmi, Syed Abbas Kwong, Wilson T Gupta, Samir
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Digestive diseases and sciences
Pancreatic cancer incidence and mortality among patients with pancreas cysts are unclear. The aims of this study are to evaluate incidence of pancreatic cancer and cause-specific mortality among patients with pancreatic cysts using a large national cohort over a long follow-up period. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of US Veterans diagnos...
Young, Edward Philpott, Hamish
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a leading cause of food bolus impaction in children and adults. The mechanism of dysphagia in EoE, particularly non-obstructive dysphagia, remains incompletely understood. While fibrostenotic processes appear to be critical in the development of dysphagia, somatosensory dysfunction and dysmotility also contribute. ...
O’Hanlon, Claire E. Patel, Arpan
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Ilagan-Ying, Ysabel C. Almeida, Mariana N. Kahler-Quesada, Arianna Ying, Lee Hughes, Michelle L. Do, Albert Hung, Kenneth W.
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Background and Aims The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the restructuring of most healthcare systems, but the impact on patients undergoing inpatient endoscopic procedures is unknown. We sought to identify factors associated with 30-day mortality among patients undergoing inpatient endoscopy before and during the first wave of t...
Herman, Howard S. Rosenthaler, Max P. Elhassan, Noon Weinberg, Janice M. Satyam, Venkata R. Wasan, Sharmeel K.
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Background and Aims Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and underrepresented minorities (URMs) historically have below average vaccination rates. URMs have increased morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. We surveyed IBD patients to assess COVID vaccination attitudes, particularly among URMs. Methods In May and June 2021, all 822 adult p...
Liu, Hongyuan Zou, Yan Kan, Yinshi Li, Xiangning Zhang, Yu
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common functional digestive tract disease worldwide, with a high prevalence among medical staff. The purpose of this study is to systematically evaluate the prevalence and influencing factors of IBS in medical staff. Methods We searched English online databases, including PubMed, The Cochrane Library, ...
Patel, Harsh K. Kovacic, Rosemary Chandrasekar, Viveksandeep Thoguluva Patel, Sneha C. Singh, Munraj Le Cam, Elise Burton, Jeffrey H. Ray, Arnab Shah, Janak N.
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Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Background We aimed to understand the association of gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms at initial presentation with clinical outcomes during COVID-19 hospitalization. Methods This retrospective, multicenter cohort study included consecutive hospitalized COVID-19 patients from a single, large health system. The presence of GI symptoms was assessed at i...