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Original Articles—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract
Factors Related to Fatigue in Patients With Cirrhosis Before and After Liver Transplantation 
Fatigue is common among patients with cirrhosis and associated with impaired quality of life. Psychological distress, severity of cirrhosis, and low levels of cortisol determine general fatigue, whereas anemia and impaired renal function also contribute to physical fatigue. Physical fatigue remains of concern for patients who have received liver transplants for cirrhosis.
Issue Highlights
Endoscopy Corner
Colonoscopy With Clipping Is Useful in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticular BleedingColonoscopy can be a safe first-line diagnostic and therapeutic approach for patients with severe LGIB. Endoscopic clipping provides hemostasis of active diverticular bleeding. Recurrent bleeding occurs in about 21% of patients who were treated with clips, at approximately 4 years; most bleeding is self-limited or can be retreated by endoscopic clipping.
Brief Communication
- The Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome: Dangers and Consequences of Interrupting Antisecretory Treatment
PPI treatment interruption has dangerous consequences, and PPI therapy always should be maintained in patients known or suspected of ZES. Diagnostic evaluations should be performed under PPI protection.
Original Articles—Alimentary Tract
Travel-Associated Health Risks for Patients With Inflammatory Bowel DiseasePatients with IBD have a higher rate of illness compared with controls during trips to industrialized countries, but not to developing or tropical regions. These findings indicate that most travel-associated illnesses stem from sporadic IBD flares rather than increased susceptibility to enteric infections.
Original Articles—Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract
Histologic and Imaging Features of Mural Nodules in Mucinous Pancreatic Cysts Malignancy is associated with epithelial nodules in BD-IPMNs and MCNs, but most echogenic lesions detected in cysts by EUS are mucus. Knowledge of features that discriminate mucus from mural nodules improves the diagnostic accuracy of EUS.
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Isolated jejunal varices: a cause of occult gastrointestinal hemorrhage in a cirrhotic patient with mild portal hypertension30 January 2012
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Gastric acid suppression and C. difficile infection: Is there a causal connection?30 January 2012
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Immunoglobulin E Levels And Its Significance In Patients With Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis30 January 2012
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Predicting Outcomes Following Restorative Proctocolectomy for Ulcerative Colitis30 January 2012
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Safety of cardiac surgery in cirrhotic patients: going to the heart of the matter30 January 2012
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Levels of Alanine Aminotransferase Confound Use of Transient Elastography to Diagnose Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic HCV Infection30 January 2012
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Factors Associated with Persistant and Non-Persistant Chronic Constipation, Over 20 Years30 January 2012
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Efficacy and Safety of Anticoagulation on Patients with Cirrhosis and Portal Vein Thrombosis30 January 2012
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Increased Numbers of Eosinophils, Rather than Only Etiology, Predict Histologic Changes in Patients with Esophageal Eosinophilia30 January 2012
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Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Patients with Ulcerative Colitis: a Meta-Analysis of Population-Based Cohort Studies30 January 2012
