An IL28B polymorphism determines treatment response of hepatitis C virus genotype 2 or 3 patients who do not achieve a rapid virologic response. Mangia A, Thompson AJ, Santoro R, Piazzolla V, Tillmann HL, Patel K, Shianna KV, Mottola L, Petruzzellis D, Bacca D, Carretta V, Minerva N, Goldstein DB, McHutchison JG. Gastroenterology. 2010 Sep;139(3):821-7, 827.e1.…
Knowledge of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening Guidelines and Clinical Practices Among Gastroenterologists.Sharma P, Saini SD, Kuhn LB, Rubenstein JH, Pardi DS, Marrero JA, Schoenfeld PS. Dig Dis Sci. 2010 Oct 27. [Epub ahead of print] BACKGROUND: Screening of high-risk patients for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may result in early diagnosis and improved outcomes. Our aim was to assess…
Quality of care in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: a cohort study.Kanwal F, Schnitzler MS, Bacon BR, Hoang T, Buchanan PM, Asch SM. Ann Intern Med. 2010 Aug 17;153(4):231-9. BACKGROUND: Medicare has proposed quality-of-care indicators for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The extent to which these standards are met in practice is largely…
Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging achieves superior accuracy in the differential diagnosis of superficial gastric lesions identified with white-light endoscopy: a prospective study.Kato M, Kaise M, Yonezawa J, Toyoizumi H, Yoshimura N, Yoshida Y, Kawamura M, Tajiri H. Gastrointest Endosc. 2010 Sep;72(3):523-9. BACKGROUND: Conventional, white-light imaging endoscopy (WLE) results in a significant number of misdiagnoses…
EUS is still superior to multidetector computerized tomography for detection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors.Khashab MA, Yong E, Lennon AM, Shin EJ, Amateau S, Hruban RH, Olino K, Giday S, Fishman EK, Wolfgang CL, Edil BH, Makary M, Cantoy MI. Gastrointest Endosc. 2010 Nov 8. [Epub ahead of print] BACKGROUND: The role of EUS for detection of…
Anatomic patterns, patient characteristics, and clinical outcomes in ischemic colitis: a study of 313 cases supported by histology. Brandt LJ, Feuerstadt P, Blaszka MC. Am J Gastroenterol. 2010 Oct;105(10):2245-52 OBJECTIVES: Previous reports on the anatomic portions of colon involved in cases of supposed ischemic colitis (IC) have been limited by the absence of confirmation of the…