GI Grand Rounds – Topics (2011-2012)
Abdominal epilepsy
Acalculus gallbladder disease
Acute graft versus host disease
Acute HCV
Acute liver failure: new guidelines
Alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency
Alpha food-induced anaphylaxis
Anemia: iron deficiency – ferritin (guidelines for indication of colonoscopy)
Angiodysplasia
Antibody-mediated rejection in liver transplant (usually early)
anti-TNF arthritis: a) failure b) serum sickness c) lupus
anti-TNF skin findings
Balloon tamponade
Bariatric surgery: follow up
Benzocaine as topical anesthetic (efficacy? toxicity?) = lidocaine safer
Cancer risk of CT scan
Cancer risk post-transplant
Capsule endoscopy
Celiac disease
Chiari malformation impairing deglutition
Chlamydia anorectal infection (lymphogranuloma venereum serotype distinct)
Chronic bleeding in Crohn’s with short bowel syndrome
Chronic diarrhea
Chronic diarrhea in AIDS (microsporidia)
CMV in IBD
Coagulation in cirrhosis
Collagenous colitis
Colon cancer screening and ethics in the elderly
Common variable immune deficiency
Constipation: lifestyle change can improve (up fluid intake, exercise more)
Copper in Wilson’s disease
Crohn disease
Crohn’s disease: preventing post-operative recurrence
Deep remission: mucosal healing in IBD
Desmoid tumor of the duodenum
Efficacy of celiac ganglion block or plexus block for pain
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Eosinophilic esophagitis
Eosinophilic esophagitis and scurvy
ERCP –> splenic laceration
Esophageal sarcoid secondary to achalasia
Family history of colon adenomas
Fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis C
Gallbladder polyps
Gastric varices secondary to prophylaxis with tissue glue
Gastroparesis
GAVE and PHG
GI bleeding in patients left on left ventricular assist device
GI bleeding on Dabigatran
GI involvement in vasculitis
Giant inflammatory fibroid polyp mimicking cancer in UC
Haletosis
HBV and IBD
Hepatic sarcoidosis
Hepatitis B reactivation and lamivudine as prophylaxis
Hepatocellular cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma – epidemiology: risk factors and early symptoms
Hydraditis supperativa (anti-TNF Rx)
IBD: Best of DDW
IBD in the presence of skin abscesses
IBD: which anti-TNF treatment to use?
IgA nephropathy and alcoholic liver disease
Incidental duodenal carcinoid
Increased surgical drain output post OLT bile leak
Indications for TIPS versus paracentesis
Late effects post-pyloromyotomy for infantile pyloric stenosis
Levator ani syndrome
Liver sarcoidosis
Lymphocytic esophagitis (dysphagia for solids x 25 yrs > + intraepithelial lymphocytes (peripapillary)
Lynch syndrome and DNA repair protein
Management of large polyps
Matching donor liver to recipient
Metabolite testing
Methotrexate and ulcerative colitis
Minimal hepatic encephalopathy
Narcotic bowel syndrome
Neostigmine & Methylnaltrexone for acute pseudo-obstruction
New onset colitis secondary to a) schistosomes b) pleisiomonas c) IBD
Non-invasive imaging for NAFLD
Non-invasive management of patients with symptomatic gallstone disease
NSAIDs and risk of IBD flares
Pancreatitis: multiple episodes – microlithiasis (helped by cholecystectomy)
Peritonevenous shunts: no advantage in refractory ascites
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
Polyarthritis in IBD secondary to disease or to infliximab itself
Portal clot feasibility of TIPS
Possible hyperplastic polyposis
Post-thoracotomy pain syndrome s/p gastric pull up
Pouchitis and cuffitis
PPIs for refractory heartburn
Provocative test in GI bleed of obscure origin
Pyoderma gangrenosa
Radiation-induced esophageal injury (fistula/perforation secondary to dilation of stricture)
Recurrent pancreatitis secondary to pancreatic divisum
Recurrent ulcer post-tx: marginal ulcer retained in antrum
Refractory eosinophil enteritis
Retroflex in right colon
Sacral nerve stimulation for fecal incontinence
Sclerosing mesenteritis
Short bowel diarrhea
Short bowel syndrome (medications/trophic hormones)
Simultaneous breast and colon cancer
Small bowel diverticula
Stercoral perforation
Survivors of childhood cancer are at increased risk of GI complications later
Syphilis
Thrombocytopenia in chronic liver disease
Tissue sampling for diagnostic cholangiocarcinoma
TPN-dependent short bowel syndrome
Trachael stenosis associated with GERD
Tube feeding in dementia
Ulcerative colitis and Rx in pregnancy
Ulcerative proctitis
Upper GI bleed in hepatitis D virus –> Kayexelate
Vitamin D deficiency in hepatitis C