Volume 29, No 3 (2016)

Editorial (by invitation only)

Celiac-associated pancreatic disease

Hugh J. Freeman

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Invited Review

Advances in the development of new biologics in inflammatory bowel disease

Bella Ungar, Uri Kopylov

243
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Review Articles

Endoscopy after bariatric surgery

Chrysoula P. Malli, Athanasios D. Sioulas, Theodoros Emmanouil, George D. Dimitriadis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou

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Neutrophil anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody proteins: bactericidal increasing protein, lactoferrin, cathepsin, and elastase as serological markers of inflammatory bowel and other diseases

Kallirroi S. Kyriakidi, Vasileios E. Tsianos, Evaggelos Karvounis, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou, Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Epameinondas V. Tsianos

258
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Favorable results from the use of herbal and plant products in inflammatory bowel disease: evidence from experimental animal studies

John Triantafillidis, Aikaterini Triantafyllidi, Constantinos Vagianos, Apostolos Papalois

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Safety and efficacy of daclatasvir in the management of patients with chronic hepatitis C

Spilios Manolakopoulos, George Zacharakis, Miltiadis Zissis, Vassilis Giannakopoulos

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Vitamin D deficiency in patients with liver cirrhosis

Christos Konstantakis, Paraskevi Tselekouni, Maria Kalafateli, Christos Triantos

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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of adrenal lesions

Rashmee Patil, Mel A. Ona, Charilaos Papafragkakis, Sushil Duddempudi, Sury Anand, Laith H. Jamil

307
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Original Articles

Pre-endoscopic erythromycin administration in upper gastrointestinal bleeding: an updated meta-analysis and systematic review

Rubayat Rahman, Douglas L. Nguyen, Umair Sohail, Ashraf A. Almashhrawi, Imran Ashraf, Srinivas R. Puli, Matthew L. Bechtold

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Importance of colonoscopy in patients undergoing endoscopic resection for superficial esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Kei Tominaga, Hisashi Doyama, Hiroyoshi Nakanishi, Naohiro Yoshida, Yasuhito Takeda, Ryosuke Ota, Kunihiro Tsuji, Kazuhiro Matsunaga, Shigetsugu Tsuji, Kenichi Takemura, Shinya Yamada, Kazuyoshi Katayanagi, Hiroshi Kurumaya

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Gastric adenocarcinoma: clinicopathologic differences among Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites. A single Institution's experience over 14 years

Narjust Duma, Larysa J. Sanchez, Yulanka S. Castro, Andrew A. Jennis, Donald A. McCain, Martin E. Gutierrez, Zubin M. Bamboat

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Impact of glycemic control on colonoscopy outcomes: bowel preparation and polyp detection

Manhal Izzy, Kinesh Changela, Dhuha Alhankawi, Nami Safai Haeri, Sulay Shah, Ghalib Jibara, Sury Anand, Shashideep Singhal

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Place of birth, cancer beliefs and being current with colon cancer screening among US adults

Kolapo A. Idowu, Babafemi Adenuga, Oritsetsemaye Otubu, Krishnan Narasimhan, Feremusu Kamara, Finie Hunter-Richardson, Daniel Larbi, Zaki A. Sherif, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo

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Systematic review and meta-analysis of third-line salvage therapy with infliximab or cyclosporine in severe ulcerative colitis

Joseph D. Feuerstein, Mona Akbari, Elliot B. Tapper, Adam S. Cheifetz

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Hepatitis B viral replication influences the expression of natural killer cell ligands

Lemonica Koumbi, Teresa Pollicino, Giovanni Raimondo, Naveenta Kumar, Peter Karayiannis, Salim I. Khakoo

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Real-time elastography as a noninvasive assessment of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C Egyptian patients: a prospective study

Lamiaa Mobarak, Mohammed M. Nabeel, Ehsan Hassan, Dalia Omran, Zeinab Zakaria

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Is pancreatic exocrine insufficiency in celiac disease related to structural alterations in pancreatic parenchyma?

Surinder S. Rana, Arvind Dambalkar, Puneet Chhabra, Ravi Sharma, Ritambhra Nada, Vishal Sharma, Satyavati Rana, Deepak K. Bhasin

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Diagnostic yield of secretin-enhanced magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography in the investigation of patients with acalculous biliary pain

Shridhar Dronamraju, John Scott, Kofi Oppong, Manu Nayar

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Endoscopic management of splenic pseudocysts associated with acute and chronic pancreatitis

Surinder Singh Rana, Ravi Sharma, Puneet Chhabra, Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Gupta, Deepak Kumar Bhasin

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Images of the Month

A bleeding gastric ulcer caused by anisakiasis

Kenta Hamada, Noriya Uedo, Yasuhiko Tomita, Hiroyasu Iishi

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Duodenal siderosis: a rare clinical finding in a patient with duodenal inflammation

Jiten P. Kothadia, Monica Kaminski, Shah Giashuddin

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Resection of a gastric fibroid inflammatory polyp by means of endoscopic submucosal dissection: how deep is deep enough?

Georgios Mavrogenis, Michel Herin, Milena Del Natale, Hocine Hassaini

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An isolated colonic neurofibroma

Mohammad Bilal, Farshaad Bilimoria, Kofi Clarke

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Direct colonoscopic visualization of intrahepatic bile ducts in a post-pancreaticoduodenectomy patient

Tyler Aasen, Yousef Usta, Houry Achdjian, Paul Berggreen

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Case Reports

A very unusual cause of dysphagia: mantle cell lymphoma

Angelo Zullo, Paola Cerro, Anastassios Chios, Alessandro Andriani, Giuseppina Balsamo, Vincenzo De Francesco, Vincenzo Bruzzese

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Prospective small bowel mucosal assessment immediately after chemoradiotherapy of unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer using capsule endoscopy: a case series

Takeshi Yamashina, Ryoji Takada, Noriya Uedo, Tomofumi Akasaka, Noboru Hanaoka, Yoji Takeuchi, Koji Higashino, Tatsuya Ioka, Ryu Ishihara, Teruki Teshima, Hiroyasu Iishi, Hiroyasu Iishi

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Table of contents

Editorial (by invitation only)

Invited Review

Review Articles

Original Articles

Images of the Month

Case Reports