GI Grand Rounds – Topics (2009-2010)
Acute hepatitis B
Acute hepatitis C
Acute pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvy’s syndrome)
Advances in Rx therapy for hepatitis C
Ampullary cancer
Angiography for obscure GI bleeding
Biologics in pregnancy
Bleeding of obscure origin secondary to a) lymphangioma and b) pancreatic heteropia
Bloody diarrhea secondary to CMV in a patient with underlying ALD
Cachexia from pancreatic insufficiency – refeeding syndrome
Carcinoids
Carcinoid of the terminal ileum
Inhalent celiac disease
Chagas disease and achalasia
Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction and JC virus
Colon cancer risk in PSC
Colon capsule endoscopy
Colonic adenocarcinoma mets to esophagus w/stent placement
Colonic ischemia in 27-yo f w/vasculitis, rash, hematuria > polyarteritis nodosa
Colonoscopy and music
Constrictive pericarditis vs restrictive cardiomyopathy
Consulting (GI – inpatient pattern)
C-V screening for athletes
Cystic duct mass containing pancreatic tissue
Deglutition: syncope secondary to vagal-vagal hyper-reactivity
Diarrhea as a side effect while taking Arthrotec (misoprostil)
Diarrhea in cancer patient – multifactorial + chemotherapy effect
Dilated appendix
DILI statins in liver disease
Downsizing HCC vs OLT eligibility
Duodenal varices
Dysplasia-associated lesion or mass
Elevated HCT and acute pancreatitis
EMR of superficial squamous cell carcinoma
Enterocolitic neutropenic typhlitis
Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
Episodic nocturnal vomiting
Fructose intolerance and IBS
Gallbladder polyps
Gastric remnant cancer
Large gastric ulcer secondary to MALT lymphoma
Gastric volvulus
Can symptoms of globus result from gastric inlet patch?
Granulomatous liver disease (especially sarcoid)
HCV and cirrhosis
HCV Rx and liver transplant
Resistant heartburn
Hepatitis B in a dental student
Hepatotoxicity due to excess alfusozin (Tylenol)
Hiatal hernia
IBS and constipation
Identification of persons at low risk for colon cancer
Ileo-cecal ulcer in Bechet’s syndrome
Effects of immunosuppression on cancer
Infertility and celiac disease
Interventional endoscopy
Intractable idiopathic diarrhea
Juvenile polyposis
Liver function in anorexia nervosa
Lynch syndrome
Malabsorption s/p bariatric surgery (intestinal bypass 1977)
Metastatic Crohn’s disease
Muir-Torre syndrome
Obliterative portal venopathy, NASH, and portal fibrosis in Turner syndrome
Pancreatic enzyme replacement products
“Pancreatic incidentalomas”
Problematic pancreatic pockets (pseudocysts and other cystic lesions)
Parvovirus and hepatopathy
Peliosis hepatis
Persistent elevated alkaline phosphatase: bx septitemia secondary to biliary obstruction
Pharyngeal anesthesia
Pill esophagitis
Pneumoperitoneum (recurrent)
Polyposis in the antrum/cardia – juvenile polyposis/hamartoma
Poor prep hiding cecal lesion
Portal thrombosis in thrombocytosis – use of anticoagulant or not?
Post-ERCP pancreatitis: wire-guided to reduce risk
Post-operative recurrence of Crohn’s
PPIs: inefficacy in treating COPD and laryngeal symptoms
Protein-induced hepatic encephalopathy
Pseudochylous ascites
Rectal exam/disempaction in a neutropenic patient
Rome algorithms
Schistosomiasis
Screening for anal cancer
Severe post-surgical diarrhea > Munchausen
Silent aspiration
Skin cancer in IBD
Small bowel adenocarcinoma in Crohn’s disease
Small tubular polyps post-polypectomy surveillance
Stevens-Johnson syndrome secondary to Cymbalta
Subacute Budd-Chiari
Transanal excision of rectal cancer
Transjugular liver biopsy > hepatic hydrothorax
Ulcerative colitis: beyond the standard review
Ulcerative colitis and PSC overlap
Update on management of hepatorenal syndrome
Use of probiotics in ulcerative colitis: VSL3 +/- benefit
Use of Remeron (mirtazyoine) for functional vomiting
Use of Smart Pill for motility
Veno-occlusive disease or “sinusoidal obstruction syndrome”
Viral hepatitis in infertility
Visceral hypersensitivity
Whipple’s disease