GI Grand Rounds – Topics (2006-2007)
Ablation of Barrett’s by high radiofrequency Rx
Acute colitis ? Ischemic colitis vs C diff (community acquired C difficile)
Acute hepatitis B
Acute liver failure
Afferent loop syndrome
Alcoholic diarrhea
Anorectal melanoma
Antibodies to infliximab
Bacterial overgrowth and IBS symptoms
Bechet’s syndrome
Biliary dyskinesia by HIDA scan
Breast cancer metastatic to the liver
Capsule endoscopy and small bowel obstruction
Cardiac risk and adjustment in ERCP
Cerebral edema with TIPS
Choledochal cyst vs duodenal duplication vs choledochocele
Chromogranin A
CMV in IBD
CMV in ulcerative and Crohn’s colitis
Colon cancer survey
Constipation in the setting of a rectal ulcer
CREST syndrome reflux and use of plicator
Crohn’s perianal fistula and antibiotics
CT enteroclysis
Cystic fibrosis and constipation
Diagnosis of celiac disease
Diarrhea secondary to alcohol
Direct to consumer drug advertising
Diverticulitis mimicking IBD
Duodenal bleed in post-partum surgery versus embolization
Dysphagia and Barrett’s in gastric interposition replacing distal esophagus
Eosinophilic esophagitis perforation
Epidemiology of gastric cancer
Esophageal diverticula
Eye lesions associated with familial polyposis
Fiber
Foreign body management
Functional nausea and vomiting
Gastric carcinoid versus hyperplasia
Gastroduodenal Crohn’s disease
Gastroparesis
GAVE
GI melanoma
Gut and joint inflammation
H. heil mannii
HCV transmission: sexual and vertical
Hepatic sarcoid
Heterotopic gastric mucosa
HIV-associated diarrhea
Hyperlipasemia and pancreatic stricture
IBD and bone health
Immunosuppression and recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplant
Infectious complications in IBD patients on steroids and immunomodulators
Interferon pathway and HCV
Intractable upper esophageal stricture
Lactose intolerance and calcium supplementation
Lamivudine in acute hepatitis B
LFT’s – clinical correlation in ischemic (congestive) hepatitis
Limitations of using the MELD score
Liver encephalopathy
Liver prognosis in alcoholic hepatitis
Living donor liver transplant
Local therapy in ulcerative colitis
Loss of response to infliximab: role of other anti-TNF Rx
Luminal wall thickening on CT – indication for colonoscopy?
Management of Crohn’s disease s/p resection
Management of fistulizing Crohn’s disease
Medical therapy for severe ulcerative colitis
Methotrexate in ulcerative colitis
Microscopic colitis
Mucosal prolapse syndrome
Multiple inflammatory polyps
Mycobacterial skin lesion in a Crohn’s patient on Remicade
Narcotic bowel syndrome
Non-cardiac chest pain from transient varices secondary to hypertensive LES high-amplitude peristalsis
NSAIDs and IBD colitis
Nursing outcomes in endoscopy procedures
Omental infarction
Osteoporosis in IBD
Outpatient treatment for refractory ulcerative colitis
Pancreatic pseudocyst
Pancreatic steatosis
Pancreatitis post stent attempt
Patency capsular system
Periodic nausea/vomiting/diarrhea with fever and elevated WBC
Placebo effect and GI disease
Portopulmonary hypertension
Post-infectious IBS versus IBD/IBS overlap
Post-OLT fever daily x 25
Post-OLT (five months) recurrent HCV with fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis
Post-polypectomy surveillance
Primary prophylaxis for varices
Primary sclerosing cholangitis in the setting of ulcerative colitis
Pulmonary disease in IBD
Pyoderma gangrenosa in Crohn’s disease
Reactive hepatopathies
Refractory celiac disease
Refractory diarrhea
Rejection in liver transplantation
Roux/left hepatic duct obstruction by stones
Rx for angiodysplasia – hormones
Sclerosing mesenteritis
Serrated polyps
Skin cancer with immunosuppression in IBD
Small gastric nodules (< 2 cm)
Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
Steatorrhea in HCV
Superficial esophageal cancer
TIPS in ascites
TIPS in partial splenic embolism
TIPS placement in portal hypertension