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Blackard

Blackard JT and KE Sherman. HCV/HIV co-infection: time to re-evaluate the role of HIV in the liver? Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 2008; 15(5):323-330.

Blackard JT, Hiasa Y, Smeaton L, Jamieson DJ, Rodriguez I, Mayer KH, and Chung RT. Compartmentalization of hepatitis C virus (HCV) during HCV/HIV co-infection. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2007; 195(12):1763-1773.

Shire NJ, Rouster SD, Stanford SD, Blackard JT, Martin CM, Fichtenbaum CJ, and Sherman KE. The prevalence and significance of occult hepatitis B virus in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected patients. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2007; 44(3):309-314.

Schwarze-Zander C, Blackard JT, Zheng H, Addo MM, Lin W, Robbins GK, Sherman KE, Zdunek D, Hess G, and Chung RT. GB virus C (GBV-C) infection in hepatitis C virus (HCV)/HIV-coinfected patients receiving HCV treatment: importance of the GBV-C genotype. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2006; 194(4):410-419.

Blackard JT, Smeaton L, Hiasa Y, Horiike N, Onji M, Jamieson DJ, Rodriguez I, Mayer KH, and Chung RT. Detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in serum and peripheral blood mononuclear cells of HCV mono-infected and HIV/HCV co-infected persons. Journal of Infectious Diseases 2005; 2(192):258-265.

Ghosh

Ghosh SK, Janiak P, Fox M, Schwizer W, Hebbard GS, Brasseur JG. Physiology of the oesophageal transition zone in the presence of chronic bolus retention: studies using concurrent high resolution manometry and digital fluoroscopy. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2008; Apr 15

Kahrilas PJ, Ghosh SK, Pandolfino JE. Challenging the limits of esophageal manometry. Gastroenterology. 2008 Jan; 134(1):16-8.

Pandolfino JE, Ghosh SK, Rice J, Clarke JO, Kwiatek MA, Kahrilas PJ. Classifying esophageal motility by pressure topography characteristics: a study of 400 patients and 75 controls. Am J Gastroenterol. 2008 Jan; 103(1):27-37.

Ghosh SK, Kahrilas PJ, Lodhia N, Pandolfino JE. Utilizing intraluminal pressure differences to predict esophageal bolus flow dynamics. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007 Nov; 293(5):G1023-8.

Ghosh SK, Pandolfino JE, Rice J, Clarke JO, Kwiatek M, Kahrilas PJ. Impaired deglutitive EGJ relaxation in clinical esophageal manometry: a quantitative analysis of 400 patients and 75 controls. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2007 Oct; 293(4):G878-85.

Giannella

Sellers ZM, Mann E, Smith A, Dong KH, Giannella R, Cohen MB, Barrett KE, Doug H. Heat-stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli (STa) can stimulate duodenal HCO3 secretion via a novel GC-C and CFTR-independent pathway. FASEB. 2008; J22:1-11.

Roberts M and Giannella RA. AGA PAC: An essential tool to advance Gastroenterology. Gastroenterology. 2008; 134:908-12.

Long JD, Giannella RA. Approach to the patient with suspected acute infectious diarrhea. Principles of Gastroenterology. 2008; 360-372.

Long JD, Giannella RA. Approach to the patient with suspected acute infectious diarrhea. Atlas of Gastroenterology. 2008.

Giannella RA. Bacterial Enteritis and Proctocolitis and Bacterial Food Poisoning. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 2006; 2333-2391

Gilinsky

Noffsinger A, Fenoglio-Preiser C, Maru D, Gilinsky N. Gastrointestinal Diseases. Atlas of Nontumor Pathology. 2007.

Gilinsky NH, Muthunayagam N. Gastrointestinal endoscopy in pregnant and lactating women: Emerging standard of care to guide decision-making. The Obstretrical and Gynecological Survey. 2006; 61:791-99.

N.H. Gilinsky & A. Forbes. Self-Assessment Color Review of Gastroenterology. 2003.

Fischer DR, Nussbaum MS, Pritts TA, Gilinsky NH, Weesner RE, Martin SP, Giannella RA. Use of omeprazole in the management of giant duedenal ulcer. Results of a prospective study Surgery. 1999; 126:643-649.

Gilinsky NH, Ulrich C. Colonic tumors. Endoscopy. 1996; 28:83-106.

Kaiser

Kemmer N, Kaiser T, Zacharias V and Neff GW. Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency: Outcomes After Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2008; 40:1492-94.

Rike AH, Mobilishetty G, Alloway RR, Succop P, Roy-Chaudhury P, Cardi M, Kaiser TE, Thomas M, Woodle ES. Cardiovascular Risk, Cardiovascular Events and Metabolic Syndrome in Renal Transplantation: Comparison of Early Steroid Withdrawal and Chronic Steroids. Clin Transplant. 2008; 22:229-35.

Kemmer N, Kaiser T, Zaxharias V, Secic M, Neff G. Ethnic Differences in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for Liver Transplantation. Dig Dis Sci. 2008; 53:551-55.

Kemmer N, Safdar K, Kaiser T, Zacharais V, Neff GW. Impact of Geographic Location on Access to Liver Transplantation Among Ethnic Minorities. Transplantation. 2008; 85:166-170.

Kemmer N, Kaiser TE, Zacharais V, Secic M, Neff G. Revisiting Posttransplant survival for Hepatitis C Virus Recipients. Transplantation. 2007; 84(7):932-3.

Kemmer

Kemmer N, Zacharias V et al. Alpha-1-Antitrypsin Deficiency: Outcomes After Liver Transplantation. Transplant Proc. 2008 Jun; 40(5):1492-4.

Kemmer N et al. Ethnic Variations in Chronic Liver Diseases. Dig Dis Sci. 2008 May; 53(5):1339-44.

Kemmer N, Neff G et al. Ethnic Differences in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for Liver Transplantation. Dig Dis Sci. 2008 Feb; 53(2):551-5.

Kemmer N, Safdar K et al. Impact of Geographic Location on Access to Liver Transplantation Among Ethnic Minorities. Transplantation. 2008 Jan 27; 85(2):166-70.

Kemmer N, Neff G. Managing Chronic Heptatitis C in the Difficult-to-Treat Patient. Liver Int. 2007 Dec; 27(10):1297-310.

Kurland

Moawad, FJ, Larock TR, Biondi, MC, Cash BD, Kurland JE. A case of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to a small bowel gastrointestinal stromal tumor detected by magnetic resonance enterography. Medscape J Med. 2008; Vol 10(11):263.

Kushner

McNally P and Kushner J. Nutrition and Malnutrition. Gastroenterology Secrets. 2006;511-7.

Lacy J, Kushner J, et al. Feeding the Critically Ill Obese Patient. Nutrition Support in the Critically Ill Patient. 2005;605-18.

Kushner J. Thyroid hormone effects on nutrient and energy metabolism. Endocrinology and Metabolism.1996; 3:219.

Glass A and Kushner J. Obesity, nutrition and the thyroid. The Endocrinologist.1996; June (5):392.

Neff

Kemmer N, Neff GW, Secic M et al. Hepatitis C Post Liver Transplant Survival Transplantation. Sep 2007.

Kemmer N, Neff GW, Secic M et al. Long term analysis of Primary NonFunction in Liver Transplant recipients. Transplant Proceedings. Jul 2007.

Kemmer N, Neff GW, Secic M et al. Ethnic differences in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Implications for Liver Transplantation. Dig Dis Sci. Jun 2007.

Neff GW, Kemmer N et al. Combination Therapy in Liver Transplant Recipients with Hepatitis B Virus without Hepatitis B Immune Globulin. Dig Dis Sci. Apr 2007.

Neff GW, Kemmer N et al. Analysis of hospitalizations comparing rifaximin versus Lactulose in the management of hepatic encephalopathy. Transplant Proc. 2006; 38 (10):3552-5

Schmulewitz

Schmulewitz N,MD. A case of pancreatic carcinoma in the setting of radiation pancreatitis. (under review)

Varadarajulu S, Fraig M, Schmulewitz N, Roberts S, Wildi S, Hawes RH, Hoffman BJ, Wallace MB. Comparison of EUS-Guided 19-Gauge Trucut Needle Biopsy With EUS-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration. Endoscopy 2004; 26(5):397-401.

Wildi SM, Fickling WE, Day TA, Cunningham CD, Schnulewitz N, Varadarajulu S, Roberts S, Ferguson B, Hoffman BJ, Hawes RH, Wallace MB. Endoscopic ultrasonography in the diagnosis and staging of neoplasms of the head and neck. Endoscopy. 2004; 59:345-8.

Shata

Shata MT, Pfahler W, Brotman B, Lee D-H, Tricoche N, Murthy K, and Prince AM. Attempted therapeutic immunization in a chimpanzee chronic HBV carrier with a high viral load. J Med Primatol. 2006

Yao. Z, Shata MT, Tricoche N, Shan M, Brotman B, Pfahler W, Hahn Y, and Prince AM. gC1qR expression in chimpanzees with resolved and chronic infection: Potential role of HCV core/gC1qR-mediated T cell suppression in the outcome of HCV infection. Virology. 2006; 346: 324-337

Al-Sherbiny M, Osman A, Mohamed N, Shata MT, Abdel Aziz F, Abdel Hamid M, Abdel Wahab S, Mikhail N, Abdel-Aziz F, Stoszek S, Ruggeri L, Folgori A, Nicosia A, Prince AM, Strickland GT. Exposure to Hepatitis C Virus in highly endemic area induces cellular immune responses without detectable viremia or seroconversion. ASTMH. 2005; 73(1):950-54.

Farid A, Al-Sherbiny M, Osman A, Mohamed N, Shata MT, Lee D, Prince AM, Strickland GT. Schistosoma infection inhibits cellular responses to core HCV peptides in endemic area in Egypt. Parasite Immunology. 2005.

Youn J-W, Park S-H, Lavillette D, Cosset F-L, Yang S-H, Lee C-G, Jin H-T, Kim C-M, Shata MT, Lee D-H, Pfahler W, Prince AM, Sung YC. Sustained E2 antibody response correlates with reduced peak viremia after hepatitis C virus infection in the chimpanzee. Hepatology. 2005; 42: 1429-1437

Sherman

Mrus JM, Sherman KE, Leonard AC, Sherman SN, Mandell KL, Tsevat J. Health values of patients coinfected with HIV/hepatitis C: are two viruses worse than one? Med Care. 2006 Feb; 44 (2) :158-66.

Qin H, Shire NJ, Keenan ED, Rouster SD, Eyster ME, Goedert JJ, Koziel MJ, Sherman KE. HCV quasispecies evolution: association with progression to end-stage liver disease in hemophiliacs infected with HCV or HCV/HIV. Blood. 2005; 105(2):533-541.

Sherman KE, Shire NJ, Rouster SD, Peters MG, Koziel MJ, Chung RT, Horn PS. Viral kinetics in hepatitis C or hepatitis C/human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. Gastroenterology. 2005; 128(2):313-327.

Sherman KE. Treatment of hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus co-infection. Clin Gastroenterol Heaptol. 2005 Oct; 3(10 Suppl 2) : S 118-21.

Graham CS, Wells A, Liu T, Sherman KE, Peters M, Chung RT, Bhan AK, Andersen J, Koziel MJ, ACTG 5071 Study Team. Antigen-specific immune responses and liver histology in HIV and hepatitis C coinfection. AIDS 2005 May; 19(8):767-773.

Weesner

Fischer DR, Nussbaum MS, Pritts TA, Gilinsky NH, Weesner RE, Martin SP, and Giannella RA: Use of omeprazole in the management of giant duodenal ulcers: Results of a prospective study. Surgery. 1999; 126:643-9.

Mendenhall C, Moritz T, Roselle G, Morgan T, Nemchausky B, Tamburro C, Schiff E, McClain C, Marsano L, Allen J, Samanta A, Weesner R, Henderson W, Chen T, French S, Chedid A, and the VA Cooperative Study Group #275: Protein energy malnutrition in severe alcoholic hepatitis: Diagnosis and Response to Treatment. JPEN. 1995; 19:258-65.

Mendenhall C, Roselle GA, Gartside P, Moritz T, and the VA Cooperative Study Groups 119 and 275: Relationship of protein calorie malnutrition to alcoholic liver disease: A reexamination of data from two Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1995; 19:635-41.

The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Variceal Sclerotherapy Group: Sclerotherapy for alcoholic cirrhotic patients who have bled from esophageal varices: Results of a randomized, multicenter clinical trial. Hepatology. 1994; 20:618-25.

Park SI, Saxe JC, Weesner RE: Does use of the coloscreen self-test improve patient compliance with fecal occult blood screening? Am J Gastroenterology. 1993; 88:1391-94.

Zucker

Ahmed K, Zucker SD. Giant cell hepatitis in teenage women. Clin. Gastroenterol. Hepatol. 2008; 6:A26-A26.e1.

Limketkai BN, Zucker SD. Hyperammonemic encephalopathy caused by carnitine deficiency. J. Gen. Intern Med. 2008; 23:210-213.

Smith DLH, Shire NJ, Watts NB, Schmitter T, Szabo G, Zucker SD. Hyperbilirubinemia is not a major contributing factor to altered bone mineral density in patients with chronic liver disease. J. Clin. Densitom. 2006; 9:105-113.

Keshavan P, Deem TL, Schwemberger SJ, Babcock GF, Cook-Mills JM, Zucker SD. Unconjugated bilirubin inhibits VCAM-1-mediated transendothelial leukocyte migration. J. Immunol. 2005; 174: 3709-3718.

Wang WW, Smith DL, Zucker SD. Bilirubin inhibits iNOS expression and NO production in response to endotoxin in rats. Hepatology. 2004 Aug; 40(2):424-33.