GI Grand Rounds – Topics (2005-2006)

Acute recurrent gallstone pancreatitis

Adrenal insufficiency and bowel function

Angiodysplasia – hormonal therapy

Anti-secretory agents in the UNC-H formulary

Azathioprine and 6MP in pregnancy

Biliary cystadenoma

Biliary sludge and pancreatitis

Biliary stenting for benign strictures

Capsule endoscopy and double-balloon enteroscopy

Carcinoid obstructing the ileocecal valve

C. difficile colitis

Colectomy in slow transit constipation

Colon preps

Compliance of medical treatment in IBD

Cost-effective management of IBD

Crohn’s and arthritis

Crohn’s prophylaxis after resection

Cryoglobulinemia and HCV-related renal disease

Diarrhea post-Nissen fundoplication

Diabetic diarrhea

Dieulafoy’s lesion

Duodenal polyps in FAP

Duodenitis/ulcerative jejunitis

Dysphagia secondary to Zenker’s diverticulum

Embolization in upper GI bleed

Endoscopic band ligation for diverticular bleed

Enzymes in pancreatitis

Eosinophilic esophagitis

Epiploic appendagitis

Esophageal pseudodiverticulitis

Esophageal symptoms in HIV

Esophagitis dissecans superficialis

Fatal pancreatitis in the course of hepatitis B

Fecal incontinence and diabetic diarrhea

Food impaction – medical management

Fulminant liver failure (diagnostic criteria)

Gastric carcinoids with gastric atrophy

Gastric stump cancer s/p Billroth II

Gastric ulcer in cirrhosis

Gastrinoma

Giant gastric ulcer

GI bleed secondary to ileocecal Crohn’s

GI procedure risk post-MI

HCC after SVR

HCV and pregnancy

HCV-associated skin lesions “epidermolysis bullosa acquisita”

Hepatitis B reactivation during anticancer treatment

Herpes esophagitis

HIV and diarrhea from MAI

Hyponatremia and fluid restriction in cirrhosis

IBD serology

IBS and IBS overlap: treatment measures

IBS misread as Crohn’s disease

IBS and serositis

Immunoproliferative small intestinal disease

Infrared coagulation of hemorrhoids

Ingestion of batteries

Interventions for GERD

LFTs post-liver transplant: validation of indirect imaging work up

Liver and 6MP

Liver granulomas

Liver trauma/bleed

Mesenteric panniculitis

Microscopic enteritis (food allergy?)

Munchausen syndrome (post-operative factitious diarrhea)

Nodular regenerative hyperplasia

Nonerosive reflux disease

Nummular gastritis

Obstructed defecation (pelvic floor dyssynergia and botox Rx)

Pancreatic chylous ascites

Pancreatic divisum

Pancreatic metaplasia of the esophagus

Papillomatosis and ampullary adenoma

PEG and “buried bumper syndrome”

Polyposis

Porphyria cutanea tarda in the setting of HCV

Portopulmonary hypertension

Post-bariatric surgery and vitamin D metabolism in various malabsorptive syndromes

Post-cholecystectomy diarrhea and bile acids

PPI pharmacology

Pregnancy (Fertility) and IBD

Radiation proctitis

Recombinant Factor VIIa

Recurrent PSC post OLT as a stricture on PTC

Rectovaginal anastomosis

Refractory heartburn (the esophagus in multiple sclerosis)

Risk of rebleeding from ulcers depending on their location

Sarcoid and the esophagus

Schistosomiasis

Screening for pancreatic cancer in patients with a genetic risk

Secretory diarrhea

Smoking and Crohn’s disease

Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis

Surveillance colonoscopy intervals

Therapy for hepatitis C prior to heart transplant

TNF antagonists in heart failure

Tracheoesophageal fistula – stenting

Transpapillary pancreatic duct stenting

Treatment of H. pylori

Use of infliximab and skin cancer

Value of alpha-fetoprotein in screening for hepatocellular carcinoma

Zollinger-Ellison syndrome