GI Grand Rounds – Topics (2008-2009)
Adulimumab therapy in patients failing infliximab
Alcoholic diarrhea
Anti-TNF-induced lupus
Ascites – eplerenone as alternative to spironolactone
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune hepatitis and PSC
Autoimmune pancreatitis
Bariatric options
B-cell lymphoma and upper airway obstruction
Biliary hamartoma
Bleeds in high-MELD cirrhosis with gastric varices (balloon-occluded retrograde in gastrorenal shunt)
Budd-Chiari syndrome or “nutmeg liver”
Carbon dioxide insufflation for endoscopy
CCK/cholescintigraphy in view of constant epigastric pain
Cervical testing among women with IBD
CMV in IBD (stool sample)
Colectomy & pouch post-OLT for PSC
Collagenous colitis
Collagenous sprue (refractory celiac disease)
Colon cancer family registry
Common variable immunoglobulin deficiency
Crohn’s disease and bladder cancer
Demyelination on anti-TNF therapy
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
Duodenal diverticula
Duodenal follicular lymphoma
Endoscopic mucosal resection for superficial esophageal cancer
Endoscopy in pregnancy
End-stage renal disease and AVM bleeding
Epidermolysis bullosa
Esophageal (epiphrenic) diverticulum
Esophageal ulcer secondary to HIV
EUS primer
Food allergies per alternative meds
Functional GI disorders and their association with stress
Fundic gland polyps and low-grade dysplasia
Gastric carcinomatosis in pregnancy (Krukenberg tumor)
Gastric volvulus
Genetics of colon cancer
GI bleeding of obscure origin > small bowel mets from lung cancer
GI symptoms and ovarian cancer
HBV reactivation
Health care reform
Hepatitis B and D
Hemochromatosis after liver transplant
Hemochromatosis in young female
Hepatic encephalopathy post-liver transplant
Hereditary angioedema
Histoplasmosis on anti-TNF therapy and GI bleeding
IBD/IBS pain
Ileostomy revision, ileal disease and intestinal permeability
Immunosuppression in IBD
Incomplete peritoneal dialysis/abdominal pain secondary to diverticulitis
INH liver failure
Is it GERD?
Juvenile polyposis
Kidney stones in IBD
Large volume gastric residual
Low-grade dysplasia in Barrett’s esophagus
Male infertility in IBD
Massive hernia entering stomach > perforation
Metastatic liver abscess
Metastatic melanoma of the stomach
Natalizumab update
Neurologic symptoms of celiac disease versus gluten neuropathy
Nutritional recommendations in IBD
Obscure GI bleeding
Pancreatitis/biliary stones in pregnancy
Patient satisfaction versus quality of care
Pelvic floor dyssynergia
Polycystic liver disease
Portal hypertension in non-cirrhotics (primary sclerosing cholangitis vs nodular regenerative hyperplasia)
Post-polypectomy surveillance: small tubular adenomas
PPI metabolism and failure to respond
Psoriasis development on anti-TNF vs. adalimumab use in treating psoriasis
Pulmonary complications of IBD
Radiation exposure in GI
Refractory stricturing fistulae in Crohn’s disease
Risk of heart surgery in cirrhosis
Salmonellosis
Sigmoid perforation
Signet cell cancer
Silymarin in chronic liver disease
Smart Pill monitoring
Solitary rectal ulcer
Sonic trial of infliximab vs infliximab + azathioprine or azathioprine
Squamous cell cancer in situ in mid-esophagus
Submucosal masses > colonic lipomas
Surgical issues in IBS (narcotic bowel syndrome)
TNF inhibition in IBD/myasthenia gravis
Tongue plaque leukoplakia
Transaminitis and creatinine kinase
Trichiuris trichium
Ulcerated mouth of Meckel’s diverticulum
Vaccines in IBD
Weight gain on anti-TNF treatment
Whipple’s disease
Whipple’s procedure
Zileutonin in ulcerative colitis
Zoster in IBD