Submissions from 2017
International Liver Transplantation Society Consensus Statement on Hepatitis C Management in Liver Transplant Recipients, Norah A. Terrault, Marina Berenguer, Simone I. Strasser, Adrian Gadano, Les Lilly, Didier Samuel, Paul Y. Kwo, Kosh Agarwal, Michael P. Curry, Stefano Fagiuoli, James YY Fung, Edward Gane, Kimberly A. Brown, Patrizia Burra, Michael Charlton, Mario G. Pessoa, and Geoff W. McCaughan
International Liver Transplantation Society Consensus Statement on Hepatitis C Management in Liver Transplant Candidates, Norah A. Terrault, Geoff W. McCaughan, Michael P. Curry, Edward Gane, Stefano Fagiuoli, James YY Fung, Kosh Agarwal, Les Lilly, Simone I. Strasser, Kimberly A. Brown, Adrian Gadano, Paul Y. Kwo, Patrizia Burra, Didier Samuel, Michael Charlton, Mario G. Pessoa, and Marina Berenguer
A Prospective Multicenter Study Evaluating Learning Curves and Competence in Endoscopic Ultrasound and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Among Advanced Endoscopy Trainees: The Rapid Assessment of Trainee Endoscopy Skills Study, Sachin Wani, Rajesh Keswani, Matt Hall, Samuel Han, Meer A. Ali, Brian Brauer, Linda Carlin, Amitabh Chak, Dan Collins, Gregory A. Cote, David L. Diehl, Christopher J. DiMaio, Andrew Dries, Ihab El-Hajj, Swan Ellert, Kimberley Fairley, Ashley Faulx, Larissa Fujii-Lau, Srinivas Gaddam, Seng-Ian Gan, Jonathan P. Gaspar, Chitiki Gautamy, Stuart C. Gordon, Cynthia Harris, Sarah Hyder, Ross Jones, Stephen Kim, Srinadh Komanduri, Ryan Law, Linda Lee, Rawad Mounzer, Daniel Mullady, V Raman Muthusamy, Mojtaba Olyaee, Patrick Pfau, Shreyas Saligram, Cyrus Piraka, Amit Rastogi, Laura Rosenkranz, Fadi Rzouq, Aditi Saxena, Raj J Shah, Violette C Simon, Aaron Small, Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah, Andrew Walker, Andrew Y Wang, Rabindra R Watson, Robert H Wilson, Patrick Yachimski, Dennis Yang, Steven Edmundowicz, and Dayna S Early
A Point System to Forecast Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk Before and After Treatment Among Persons with Chronic Hepatitis C, Jian Xing, Philip R. Spradling, Anne C. Moorman, Scott D. Holmberg, Eyasu H. Teshale, Loralee B. Rupp, Stuart C. Gordon, Mei Lu, Joseph A. Boscarino, Mark A. Schmidt, Connie M. Trinacty, and Fujie Xu
Treating Medicaid patients with hepatitis C: clinical and economic impact, Zobair Younossi, Stuart C. Gordon, Aijaz Ahmed, Douglas Dieterich, Sammy Saab, and Rachel Beckerman
The value of cure associated with treating treatment-naïve chronic hepatitis C genotype 1: Are the new all-oral regimens good value to society?, Zobair M. Younossi, Haesuk Park, Douglas Dieterich, Sammy Saab, Aijaz Ahmed, and Stuart C. Gordon
Submissions from 2016
Grazoprevir, Elbasvir, and Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1 Infection After Failure of Pegylated Interferon and Ribavirin With an Earlier-Generation Protease Inhibitor: Final 24-Week Results From C-SALVAGE, Maria Buti, Stuart C. Gordon, Eli Zuckerman, Eric Lawitz, Jose L. Calleja, Harald Hofer, Christopher Gilbert, John Palcza, Anita YM Howe, Mark J. DiNubile, Michael N. Robertson, Janice Wahl, Eliav Barr, and Xavier Forns
EUS-Guided Methylene Blue Injection to Facilitate Pancreatic Duct Access After Unsuccessful ERCP, B J. Elmunzer and Cyrus Piraka
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation is Safe and Efficacious for Recurrent or Refractory Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Monika Fischer, Dina Kao, Colleen Kelly, Aishwarya Kuchipudi, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, Mark Blumenkehl, Douglas Rex, Mark Mellow, Nirmal Kaur, Harry Sokol, Gwen Cook, Matthew J. Hamilton, Emmalee Phelps, Brian Sipe, Huiping Xu, and Jessica R. Allegretti
Frequency of and Factors Associated with Receipt of Liver-Related Specialty Care Among Patients with Hepatitis C in the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study, Monique A. Foster, Jian Xing, Anne C. Moorman, Joseph Boscarino, Stuart C. Gordon, Mei Lu, Loralee B. Rupp, Mark A. Schmidt, Connie M. Trinacty, Fujie Xu, Scott D. Holmberg, and Philip R. Spradling
Efficacy of Sofosbuvir, Velpatasvir, and GS-9857 in Patients With Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 2, 3, 4, or 6 Infections in an Open-Label, Phase 2 Trial, Edward J. Gane, Kris V. Kowdley, David Pound, Catherine AM Stedman, Mitchell Davis, Kyle Etzkorn, Stuart C. Gordon, David Bernstein, Gregory Everson, Maribel Rodriguez-Torres, Naoky Tsai, Omer Khalid, Jenny C. Yang, Sophia Lu, Hadas Dvory-Sobol, Luisa M. Stamm, Diana M. Brainard, John G. McHutchison, Myron Tong, Raymond T. Chung, Kimberly Beavers, John E. Poulos, Paul Y. Kwo, and Mindie H. Nguyen
Evaluation of APRI and FIB-4 scoring systems for non-invasive assessment of hepatic fibrosis in chronic hepatitis B patients, W R. Kim, Thomas Berg, Tarik Asselah, Robert Flisiak, Scott Fung, Stuart C. Gordon, Harry LA Janssen, Pietro Lampertico, Daryl Lau, Jeffrey D. Bornstein, Raul EA Schall, Phillip Dinh, Leland J. Yee, Eduardo B. Martins, Seng-Gee Lim, Rohit Loomba, Jörg Petersen, Maria Buti, and Patrick Marcellin
A Rare Case of Gastric Variceal Hemorrhage Secondary to Infiltrative B-Cell Lymphoma, Adrienne Lenhart, Juan Fernandez-Castillo, Keith Mullins, and Reena Salgia
Perioperative Ledipasvir-Sofosbuvir for HCV in Liver-Transplant Recipients, Josh Levitsky, Elizabeth C. Verna, Jacqueline G. O'Leary, Natalie H. Bzowej, D Moonka, Robert H. Hyland, Sarah Arterburn, Hadas Dvory-Sobol, Diana M. Brainard, John G. McHutchison, and Norah A. Terrault
Randomized phase II study of GS-4774 as a therapeutic vaccine in virally suppressed patients with chronic hepatitis B, Anna S. Lok, Calvin Q. Pan, Steven-Huy B. Han, Huy N. Trinh, W J. Fessel, Timothy Rodell, Benedetta Massetto, Lanjia Lin, Anuj Gaggar, G M. Subramanian, John G. McHutchison, Carlo Ferrari, Hannah Lee, Stuart C. Gordon, and Edward J. Gane
Hepatitis C treatment failure is associated with increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, Mei Lu, Jia Li, Loralee B. Rupp, Scott D. Holmberg, Anne C. Moorman, Philip R. Spradling, Eyasu H. Teshale, Yueren Zhou, Joseph A. Boscarino, Mark A. Schmidt, Lois Lamerato, Connie Trinacty, Sheri Trudeau, and Stuart C. Gordon
Serum Biomarkers Indicate Long-term Reduction in Liver Fibrosis in Patients With Sustained Virological Response to Treatment for HCV Infection, Mei Lu, Jia Li, Talan Zhang, Loralee B. Rupp, Sheri Trudeau, Scott D. Holmberg, Anne C. Moorman, Philip R. Spradling, Eyasu H. Teshale, Fujie Xu, Joseph A. Boscarino, Mark A. Schmidt, Vinutha Vijayadeva, and Stuart C. Gordon
Splenic Artery Embolization for Treatment of Refractory Ascites After Liver Transplantation, Alireza Meighani, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, Mohammad Raoufi, and Reena Salgia
Prevalence of Renal Impairment and Associated Conditions Among HCV-Infected Persons in the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS), Anne C. Moorman, Xin Tong, Philip R. Spradling, Loralee B. Rupp, Stuart C. Gordon, Mei Lu, Eyasu H. Teshale, Joseph A. Boscarino, Connie M. Trinacty, Mark A. Schmidt, Fujie Xu, and Scott D. Holmberg
Intestine Transplantation Across a Positive Crossmatch With Preformed Donor-Specific Antibodies, Ravish Parekh, M Kazimi, Sharon Skorupski, O Fagoaga, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, and M C. Segovia
Insulin Resistance is Associated With Significant Liver Fibrosis in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis, Suhag Patel, Raxitkumar Jinjuvadia, Ravi Patel, and Suthat Liangpunsakul
A Case Report of Acute Cellular Rejection Following Intestinal Transplantation Managed With Adalimumab, B Rao, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, M Kazimi, Keith Mullins, Mohammad Raoufi, and M C. Segovia
Use of Everolimus After Multivisceral Transplantation: A Report of Two Cases, B Rao, M C. Segovia, M Kazimi, R Parekh, Mohammad Raoufi, and Syed-Mohammed Jafri
HCV Council--critical appraisal of data: recommendations for clinical practice in a rapidly evolving therapeutic landscape, Nancy Reau, Michael W. Fried, David R. Nelson, Robert S. Brown, Gregory T. Everson, Stuart C. Gordon, Ira Jacobson, Joseph K. Lim, Paul J. Pockros, K R. Reddy, and Kenneth E. Sherman
Distribution of disease phase, treatment prescription and severe liver disease among 1598 patients with chronic hepatitis B in the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study, 2006-2013, P R. Spradling, J Xing, Loralee B. Rupp, A C. Moorman, Stuart C. Gordon, E T. Teshale, Mei Lu, J A. Boscarino, M A. Schmidt, Connie M. Trinacty, and S D. Holmberg
Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of elbasvir and grazoprevir in the treatment of hepatitis C, Nimisha Sulejmani, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, and Stuart C. Gordon
Higher all-cause hospitalization among patients with chronic hepatitis C: the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS), 2006-2013, E H. Teshale, J Xing, A Moorman, S D. Holmberg, P R. Spradling, Stuart C. Gordon, Loralee B. Rupp, Mei Lu, J A. Boscarino, Connie M. Trinacity, M A. Schmidt, and F Xu
Predictors of Thiopurine Treatment Failure in Biologic-Naïve Ulcerative Colitis Patients, Sudeep Thapa, Hind Hadid, Muhammad Usman, Waseem Imam, Ahmad Hassan, Jason Schairer, Syed-Mohammed Jafri, and Nirmal Kaur
All-Cause Mortality and Progression Risks to Hepatic Decompensation and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients Infected With Hepatitis C Virus, Fujie Xu, Anne C. Moorman, Xin Tong, Stuart C. Gordon, Loralee B. Rupp, Mei Lu, Eyasu H. Teshale, Philip R. Spradling, Joseph A. Boscarino, Connie M. Trinacty, Mark A. Schmidt, Scott D. Holmberg, Scott D. Holmberg, Eyasu H. Teshale, Philip R. Spradling, Anne C. Moorman, Jim Xing, Xin Tong, Fujie Xu, David R. Nerenz, Lois Lamerato, Yan Wang, Nonna Akkerman, Nancy Oja-Tebbe, Talan Zhang, Jia Li, Alexandra R. Sitarik, Dana Larkin, Joseph A. Boscarino, Zahra S. Daar, Patrick J. Curry, Robert E. Smith, Vinutha Vijayadeva, John V Parker, Mark A Schmidt, Judy L Donald, and Erin M Keast
Real-world outcomes of ledipasvir/sofosbuvir in treatment-naive patients with hepatitis C, Zobair M. Younossi, Haesuk Park, Stuart C. Gordon, John R. Ferguson, Aijaz Ahmed, Douglas Dieterich, and Sammy Saab
Submissions from 2015
Predicting the likelihood of a persistent bile duct stone in patients with suspected choledocholithiasis: accuracy of existing guidelines and the impact of laboratory trends, Megan A. Adams, Amy E. Hosmer, Erik J. Wamsteker, Michelle A. Anderson, Grace H. Elta, Nisa M. Kubiliun, Richard S. Kwon, Cyrus Piraka, James M. Scheiman, Akbar K. Waljee, Hero K. Hussain, and B J. Elmunzer
Accuracy of fibroscan, compared with histology, in analysis of liver fibrosis in patients with hepatitis B or C: a United States multicenter study, Nezam H. Afdhal, Bruce R. Bacon, Keyur Patel, Eric J. Lawitz, Stuart C. Gordon, David R. Nelson, Tracy L. Challies, Imad Nasser, Jyotsna Garg, Lee-Jen Wei, and John G. McHutchison
Occurrence of Multidrug Resistant Extended Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Bacteria on Iceberg Lettuce Retailed for Human Consumption, Natasha Bhutani, Chithra Muraleedharan, Deepa Talreja, Sonia W. Rana, Sandeep Walia, Ashok Kumar, and Satish K. Walia
Predictors of poor mental and physical health status among patients with chronic hepatitis C infection: the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS), Joseph A. Boscarino, Mei Lu, Anne C. Moorman, Stuart C. Gordon, Loralee B. Rupp, Philip R. Spradling, Eyasu H. Teshale, Mark A. Schmidt, Vinutha Vijayadeva, and Scott D. Holmberg
Cold snare piecemeal resection of colonic and duodenal polyps ≥1 cm, Neel Choksi, B J. Elmunzer, Ryan W. Stidham, Dmitry Shuster, and Cyrus Piraka
Sofosbuvir and ribavirin prevent recurrence of HCV infection after liver transplantation: an open-label study, Michael P. Curry, Xavier Forns, Raymond T. Chung, Norah A. Terrault, Robert Brown, Jonathan M. Fenkel, Fredric Gordon, Jacqueline O'Leary, Alexander Kuo, Thomas Schiano, Gregory Everson, Eugene Schiff, Alex Befeler, Edward Gane, Sammy Saab, John G. McHutchison, G M. Subramanian, William T. Symonds, Jill Denning, Lindsay McNair, Sarah Arterburn, Evguenia Svarovskaia, D Moonka, and Nezam Afdhal
EUS Diagnostic Criteria for Chronic Pancreatitis: A Comparison of Conventional Versus Rosemont Criteria, Sharlene L. D'Souza, Michelle A. Anderson, Sheryl J. Korsnes, B J. Elmunzer, Cyrus Piraka, Stacy Menees, Erik-Jan Wamsteker, Richard S. Kwon, James M. Scheiman, and Grace H. Elta
Grazoprevir and elbasvir plus ribavirin for chronic HCV genotype-1 infection after failure of combination therapy containing a direct-acting antiviral agent, Xavier Forns, Stuart C. Gordon, Eli Zuckerman, Eric Lawitz, Jose L. Calleja, Harald Hofer, Christopher Gilbert, John Palcza, Anita YM Howe, Mark J. DiNubile, Michael N. Robertson, Janice Wahl, Eliav Barr, and Maria Buti
Sofosbuvir and Velpatasvir for HCV Genotype 2 and 3 Infection, Graham R. Foster, Nezam Afdhal, Stuart K. Roberts, Norbert Bräu, Edward J. Gane, Stephen Pianko, Eric Lawitz, Alex Thompson, Mitchell L. Shiffman, Curtis Cooper, William J. Towner, Brian Conway, Peter Ruane, Marc Bourlière, Tarik Asselah, Thomas Berg, Stefan Zeuzem, William Rosenberg, Kosh Agarwal, Catherine AM Stedman, Hongmei Mo, Hadas Dvory-Sobol, Lingling Han, Jing Wang, John McNally, Anu Osinusi, Diana M. Brainard, John G. McHutchison, Francesco Mazzotta, Tram T. Tran, Stuart C. Gordon, Keyur Patel, Nancy Reau, Alessandra Mangia, and Mark Sulkowski
Polycystic liver disease, Stuart C. Gordon
Prevalence of cirrhosis in hepatitis C patients in the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS): a retrospective and prospective observational study, Stuart C. Gordon, Lois E. Lamerato, Loralee B. Rupp, Scott D. Holmberg, Anne C. Moorman, Philip R. Spradling, Eyasu Teshale, Fujie Xu, Joseph A. Boscarino, Vinutha Vijayadeva, Mark A. Schmidt, Nancy Oja-Tebbe, and Mei Lu
Prevalence of cirrhosis in hepatitis C patients in the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Study (CHeCS): a retrospective and prospective observational study, Stuart C. Gordon, Lois Lamerato, Loralee B. Rupp, Scott D. Holmberg, Anne C. Moorman, Philip R. Spradling, Eyasu Teshale, Fujie Xu, Joseph A. Boscarino, Vinutha Vijayadeva, Mark A. Schmidt, Nancy Oja-Tebbe, and Mei Lu
Characterization of genetic loci that affect susceptibility to inflammatory bowel diseases in African Americans, Chengrui Huang, Talin Haritunians, David T. Okou, David J. Cutler, Michael E. Zwick, Kent D. Taylor, Lisa W. Datta, Joseph C. Maranville, Zhenqiu Liu, Shannon Ellis, Pankaj Chopra, Jonathan S. Alexander, Robert N. Baldassano, Raymond K. Cross, Themistocles Dassopoulos, Tanvi A. Dhere, Richard H. Duerr, John S. Hanson, Jason K. Hou, Sunny Z. Hussain, Kim L. Isaacs, Kelly E. Kachelries, Howard Kader, Michael D. Kappelman, Jeffrey Katz, Richard Kellermayer, Barbara S. Kirschner, John F. Kuemmerle, Archana Kumar, John H. Kwon, Mark Lazarev, Peter Mannon, Dedrick E Moulton, Bankole O Osuntokun, Ashish Patel, John D Rioux, Jerome I Rotter, Shehzad Saeed, Ellen J Scherl, Mark S Silverberg, Ann Silverman, Stephan R Targan, John F Valentine, Ming-Hsi Wang, Claire L Simpson, S Louis Bridges, Robert P Kimberly, Stephen S Rich, Judy H Cho, Anna Di Rienzo, Linda W H Kao, Dermot P B McGovern, Steven R Brant, and Subra Kugathasan
Solid organ transplantation from hepatitis B virus-positive donors: consensus guidelines for recipient management, S Huprikar, L Danziger-Isakov, J Ahn, S Naugler, E Blumberg, R K. Avery, C Koval, E D. Lease, A Pillai, K E. Doucette, J Levitsky, M I. Morris, K Lu, J K. McDermott, T Mone, J P. Orlowski, D M. Dadhania, K Abbott, S Horslen, B L. Laskin, A Mougdil, V L. Venkat, K Korenblat, V Kumar, P Grossi, R D. Bloom, Kimberly A. Brown, C N. Kotton, and D Kumar
The safety of daclatasvir for the treatment of hepatitis C, Syed-Mohammed Jafri and Stuart C. Gordon
Trends in Alcoholic Hepatitis-related Hospitalizations, Financial Burden, and Mortality in the United States, Raxitkumar Jinjuvadia and Suthat Liangpunsakul
A rare case of splenic lymphoma in a patient with polymyositis manifesting as gastric variceal bleeding, Ravish Parekh, Sandeep Walia, Ashish Zalawadia, and Yousuf Siddiqui
Lubiprostone plus PEG electrolytes versus placebo plus PEG electrolytes for outpatient colonoscopy preparation: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial, Aijaz A. Sofi, Ali T. Nawras, Chetan Pai, Qiana Samuels, and Ann L. Silverman
Use of the methacetin breath test to classify the risk of cirrhotic complications and mortality in patients evaluated/listed for liver transplantation, R T. Stravitz, Adrian Reuben, Meir Mizrahi, Gadi Lalazar, Kimberly A. Brown, Stuart C. Gordon, Yaron Ilan, and Arun Sanyal
Effect of Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Related Characteristics and Treatment Interventions on Cardiovascular Disease Incidence, Sudeep Thapa, Hind Hadid, Jason Schairer, Waseem Imam, and Syed-Mohammed Jafri
Narcotic-induced pain, Sudeep Thapa and Jason Schairer
Hepatitis B e antigen status and hepatitis B DNA levels in women of childbearing age with chronic hepatitis B infection screening for clinical trials, Tram T. Tran, Stuart C. Gordon, Scott Fung, Phillip Dinh, Leland Yee, Eduardo B. Martins, Maria Buti, and Patrick Marcellin
Incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular events associated with sirolimus use after liver transplantation, Alexander Weick, Wadih Chacra, Aishwarya Kuchipudi, Mohammad Elbatta, George Divine, Charlotte Burmeister, and Dilip Moonka
Characteristics of a novel treatment system for linear accelerator-based stereotactic radiosurgery, Ning Wen, Haisen Li, Kwang Song, Karen C. Snyder, Yujiao Qin, Jinkoo Kim, Maria Bellon, Misbah Gulam, Stephen J. Gardner, Anthony Doemer, Suneetha Devpura, James Gordon, Indrin J. Chetty, Farzan Siddiqui, Munther Ajlouni, Robert Pompa, Zane Hammoud, Michael Simoff, Steven N. Kalkanis, Benjamin Movsas, and M. Salim Siddiqui
HIV Infection Status as a Predictor of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Testing in Primary Care, Anthony K. Yartel, Rebecca L. Morgan, David B. Rein, Kimberly A. Brown, Natalie B. Kil, Omar I. Massoud, Michael B. Fallon, and Bryce D. Smith