Recent Publications

• Clinical Studies

  Racial Inequities in Health Care Utilization and Costs for Immigrant Minorities with Pancreatic Disorders - Jean R. Park, Kyle Porter, Darwin L. Conwell, Somashekar G. Krishna
  

  Race and Gender Differences in Chronic Pancreatitis (CP): Analysis of Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) from 2003 to 2011- Jennifer Behzadi, Darwin L. Conwell, Alice Hinton, Somashekar G. Krishna

  Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Increases Economic Burden of Colorectal Cancer Surgery - Hisham Hussan, Darrell M. Gray, Somashekar G. Krishna, Alice Hinton, Jeffery R. Groce, Darwin L. Conwell, Peter P. Stanich

  Diabetes is Associated with Socioeconomic Disparities and More Co-morbidities in Colorectal Cancer Surgery - a Nationwide Inpatient Sample Study -Hisham Hussan, Peter P. Stanich, Darwin L. Conwell, Samer El-Dika, Somashekar G. Krishna, Alice Hinton, Darrell M. Gray

  A High Body Mass Index (BMI) is Associated with Incremental Health Care Utilization and Surgical Complications in Patients Undergoing Colorectal Cancer Surgery - Hisham Hussan, Darrell M. Gray, Cheng Zhang, Alice Hinton, Somashekar G. Krishna, Sheetal Sharma, Darwin L. Conwell, Peter P. Stanich

  Groove Pancreatitis, a masquerading yet distinct clinicopathological entity: Analysis of Risk Factors and Differentiation -Veeral M. Oz1, Jacob M. Skean1, Peter Muscarella, Brett C. Sklaw, Kevin M. Cronley, Jon Walker, Samer El-Dika, Benjamin Swanson, Alice Hinton, Darwin L. Conwell, Somashekar G. Krishna

  Early Naso-Enteral Tube (NET) is Associated with Higher Mortality Compared to Early PEG Tube in Stroke Patients Admitted with Dysphagia in the United States -Samer S. El-Dika, Somashekar G. Krishna, Jeffery R. Groce, Peter P. Stanich, Hisham Hussan, Alice Hinton, Darwin L. Conwell

  Efficacy of Endoscopic Ultrasound Fine Needle Aspiration (EUS-FNA) in Obtaining Optimal Samples for Immunohistochemistry (IHC) in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA) - Reshi Kanuru MD, Michael Wellner MD, Ming Jin MD, Kyle Porter MAS, Jon P Walker MD, Somashekar Krishna MBBS MPH, Adrian Suarez MD, and Samer El-Dika MD MS

  The Increasing Prevalence of Human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Disease Among Hospitalized Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) in the United States - Cheng Zhang, Edward J. Levine, Somashekar G. Krishna, Alice Hinton, Darwin Conwell, Razvan Arsenescu

  Health Outcomes of Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohn’s Disease (CD) Patients Hospitalized with Human Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Disease - Cheng Zhang, Edward J. Levine, Somashekar G. Krishna, Alice Hinton, Darwin Conwell, Razvan Arsenescu

  Acute pancreatitis (AP) in post-bariatric surgery (BRS) status: Analysis of national trends, complications and outcomes from 2007 to 2011 - Somashekar G. Krishna, Jennifer Behzadi, Alice Hinton, Samer El-Dika, Jeffery R. Groce, Hisham Hussan, Darwin L. Conwell

  The Impact of Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (SOD) on Health Care Utilization in Patients Admitted for Abdominal Pain - Jeffery R. Groce, Somashekar G. Krishna, Samer El-Dika, Sheetal Sharma, Alice Hinton, Darwin Conwell

  Biliary intervention after bariatric surgery (BRS): Inferences from a nationwide population-based study - Somashekar G. Krishna, Alecia Blaszczak, Samer El-Dika, Jeffery R. Groce, Hisham Hussan, Cheng Zhang, Jeffrey Wenzke, Sheetal Sharma, Darwin L. Conwell

  Morbid Obesity (MO) is Associated with Increased Healthcare Utilization and is an Independent Predictor of Mortality of Acute Pancreatitis (AP) - Somashekar G. Krishna, Samer El-Dika, Alice Hinton, Jeffery R. Groce, Hisham Hussan, Cheng Zhang, Peter P. Stanich, Na Li, Darwin L. Conwell

  Diverticulitis in HIV/AIDS Patients is Associated with Increased Mortality - Kevin M. Cronley, Jeffrey Wenzke, Hisham Hussan, Alice Hinton, Darwin L. Conwell1, Somashekar G. Krishna, Peter P. Stanich

  Video Capsule Endoscopy is Safe and Effective in Hospitalized Patients with Implantable Cardiac Devices and Left Ventricular Assist Devices - John M Guido MD, Peter P Stanich MD, Bryan Kleinman DO, Nishaki Mehta Oza MD, Kavita Betkerur BS, Kyle Porter MS and Marty M Meyer MD

  Video capsule endoscopy completion rates and total transit times are similar with oral or endoscopic delivery - John Guido MD, Peter P Stanich MD, Bryan Kleinman DO, Kavita Betkerur BS, Kyle M Porter MS and Marty M Meyer MD

  Prevalence and severity of cytopenias in hospitalized patients with cirrhosis - Brett Sklaw, Eric Kraut

  Protocol for Coronary Artery Disease Screening among Orthotopic Liver Transplant Candidates - Bryan Lee, Feng Li, Scott M. Lilly, A. James Hanje

  Pre-transplant characteristics in patients evaluated for orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) associated with positive stress test - Feng Li, Bryan Lee, Kyle Porter, Nicole O'Bleness, Scott M. Lilly, A. James Hanje

  Post-transplant cardiac events among patients receiving orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) - Feng Li, Bryan Lee, Kyle Porter, Nicole O'Bleness, Scott M. Lilly, A. James Hanje

  Use of Bayesian Analysis to Predict Pancreatic Fibrosis with the Secretin Endoscopic Pancreatic Function Test (ePFT): Comparison to Histopathology Gold Standards – Feng Li, Wendy Frankel, Alice Hinton, Philip Hart, Darwin Conwell

  Derivation of a Non-invasive, Chronic Pancreatitis (CP) Risk Score- Darwin L. Conwell, Linda S. Lee, Vivek Kadiyala, Shadeah Suleiman, Peter Banks

  Urban Hospitalization Increases Costs and Healthcare Utilization for Diverticulitis in the United States – Sheryl Pfeil, Kyle Porter, Darwin Conwell

  Gender disparities of acute liver injury in the United States: analysis of the National Inpatient Sample from 2006-2011- Na Li, Alice Hinton, Somashekar Krishna, James Hanje, Darwin Conwell

• Clinical Vignettes

  Cryptosporidium Enteritis in a Liver Transplant Patient – Jean R. Park, Jeffrey Kuo, Anthony Michaels

  A Case of Mistaken Identity: Disseminated Bartonella as Pancreatic Mass – Jennifer Behzadi, Mohamed S. Naem, Somashekar G. Krishna

  Iatrogenic Superior Mesenteric Arterio-venous Fistula as an Unusual Cause of Refractory Ascites: A Case Report – Jager Jasem, Jean R. Park, Gabriel C. Lockhart, A. James Hanje

  Ovarian Cancer Metastatic to the Stomach: A “Reverse Krukenberg” Tumor – John M. Guido, MD, Peter P. Stanich, MD, Edward Levine, MD

  Ovarian Cancer Despite Previous Oophorectomy in Liver Transplant Patient – Jennifer Behzadi, MD, Peter P. Stanich, MD, and Robert Kirkpatrick, MD

  Intraoperative enteroscopy remains a useful modality in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding – Feng Li, Jeffrey Kuo, Samer El-Dika, Marty Meyer, Peter Stanich

  Broncho-esophageal Fistula: Imaging versus Endoscopy – Reshi Kanuru, MD, Someshakar Krishna, MD, and Peter Stanich, MD

  Recurrent acute pancreatitis following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB): The afferent loop syndrome – Feng Li, Jonathan Congeni, Somashekar G. Krishna

  Gastrostomy tube migration causing acute pancreatitis – Feng Li, Mohamed S. Naem, Cheng Zhang, Somashekar G. Krishna