Daily Archives: October 29, 2015

Aging of Liver Transplant Registrants and Recipients: Trends and Impact on Waitlist Outcomes, Post-Transplantation Outcomes, and Transplant-Related Survival Benefit

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Feng Su, Lei Yu, Kristin Berry, Iris W. Liou, Charles S. Landis, Stephen C. Rayhill, Jorge D. Reyes, George N. Ioannou

Epidemiologic factors have generated increased demand for liver transplantation among older patients. We aimed to describe trends in age among liver transplant registrants and recipients and the effect of age on waitlist and post-transplantation outcom… Continue reading →

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Association Between Response to Etrolizumab and Expression of Integrin αE and Granzyme A in Colon Biopsies of Patients With Ulcerative Colitis

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Gaik W. Tew, Jason A. Hackney, Deena Gibbons, Christopher A. Lamb, Diana Luca, Jackson G. Egen, Lauri Diehl, Jeff Eastham Anderson, Severine Vermeire, John C. Mansfield, Brian G. Feagan, Julian Panes, Daniel C. Baumgart, Stefan Schreiber, Iris Dotan,

Etrolizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against the β7 integrin subunit that has shown efficacy vs placebo in patients with moderate to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC). Patients with colon tissues that expressed high levels of the integ… Continue reading →

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Real-Time Characterization of Diminutive Colorectal Polyp Histology Using Narrow-Band Imaging: Implications for the Resect and Discard Strategy

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Swati G. Patel, Philip Schoenfeld, Hyungjin Kim, Emily K. Ward, Ajay Bansal, Yeonil Kim, Lindsay Hosford, Aimee Myers, Stephanie Foster, Jenna Craft, Samuel Shopinski, Robert H. Wilson, Dennis J. Ahnen, Amit Rastogi, Sachin Wani

Narrow-band imaging (NBI) allows real-time histologic classification of colorectal polyps. We investigated whether endoscopists without prior training in NBI can achieve the following thresholds recommended by the American Society for Gastrointestinal … Continue reading →

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Aging of Liver Transplant Registrants and Recipients: Trends and Impact on Waitlist Outcomes, Post-Transplantation Outcomes, and Transplant-Related Survival Benefit

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Feng Su, Lei Yu, Kristin Berry, Iris W. Liou, Charles S. Landis, Stephen C. Rayhill, Jorge D. Reyes, George N. Ioannou

Epidemiologic factors have generated increased demand for liver transplantation among older patients. We aimed to describe trends in age among liver transplant registrants and recipients and the effect of age on waitlist and post-transplantation outcom… Continue reading →

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Association Between Response to Etrolizumab and Expression of Integrin αE and Granzyme A in Colon Biopsies of Patients With Ulcerative Colitis

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Gaik W. Tew, Jason A. Hackney, Deena Gibbons, Christopher A. Lamb, Diana Luca, Jackson G. Egen, Lauri Diehl, Jeff Eastham Anderson, Severine Vermeire, John C. Mansfield, Brian G. Feagan, Julian Panes, Daniel C. Baumgart, Stefan Schreiber, Iris Dotan,

Etrolizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against the β7 integrin subunit that has shown efficacy vs placebo in patients with moderate to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC). Patients with colon tissues that expressed high levels of the integ… Continue reading →

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Real-Time Characterization of Diminutive Colorectal Polyp Histology Using Narrow-Band Imaging: Implications for the Resect and Discard Strategy

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Narrow-band imaging (NBI) allows real-time histologic classification of colorectal polyps. We investigated whether endoscopists without prior training in NBI can achieve the following thresholds recommended by the American Society for Gastrointestinal … Continue reading →

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