Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Acknowledgment of 2016 Reviewers

The Premise and Promise of Big Data for Tracking Population Health: Big Deal or Big Disappointment?

Emad Mansoor, Sadeer G. Al-Kindi

Identifying Drug-Induced Liver Illness (DILI) with Computerized Information Extraction: No More Dilly-Dallying

H. Shen, A. Monto

Circulating Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Crohn’s Disease: An EPiC in the Making?

Catharine Dietrich, Shree Ram Singh

The Quality of Care for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Rena Yadlapati, Lara Dakhoul, John E. Pandolfino, Rajesh N. Keswani

When It Rains It Pours: Evolving, Complicated Small Intestinal Crohn’s Disease

George Triadafilopoulos, Saul Eisenstat, Shane Dormady, Robert Sinha, Fabio Komlos, Charles Lombard

Acute Pancreatitis: Nothing to SPiT At

Anas Gremida, Ahmad Altaee, Kavita Darji, Tarun Rustagi, Denis McCarthy

Using Search Engine Query Data to Explore the Epidemiology of Common Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Benjamin G. Hassid, Lukejohn W. Day, Mohannad A. Awad, Justin L. Sewell, E. Charles Osterberg, Benjamin N. Breyer

PRISM, a Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument, Accurately Measures Symptom Change in Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Garth Fuller, Roger Bolus, Cynthia Whitman, Jennifer Talley, M. Haim Erder, Alain Joseph, Debra G. Silberg, Brennan Spiegel

Determinants of Healthcare Utilization Among Veterans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Mimi C. Tan, Hashem B. El-Serag, Jason K. Hou

A Text Searching Tool to Identify Patients with Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury

Lauren Heidemann, James Law, Robert J. Fontana

Fukuoka and AGA Criteria Have Superior Diagnostic Accuracy for Advanced Cystic Neoplasms than Sendai Criteria

Michael Sighinolfi, Susan Y. Quan, Yvonne Lee, Alvaro Ibaseta, Kimberly Pham, Monica M. Dua, George A. Poultsides, Brendan C. Visser, Jeffery A. Norton, Walter G. Park

Circulating Bone Marrow-Derived CD45−/CD34+/CD133+/VEGF+ Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Adults with Crohn’s Disease

Doron Boltin, Zvi Kamenetsky, Tsachi Tsadok Perets, Yifat Snir, Boris Sapoznikov, Hemda Schmilovitz-Weiss, Jacob Nadav Ablin, Ram Dickman, Yaron Niv

Disequilibrium in the CD8+CD28+/CD8+CD28− T Lymphocyte Balance Is Related to Prognosis in Rats with Trinitrobenzenesulfonic Acid-Induced Colitis

Shixue Dai, Hongxiang Gu, Qianyi Lin, Tiaosi Xing, Minhua Chen, Tao Zhong, Gang Wu, Yanling Feng, Hongbo Liu, Yong Gao, Hongjian Jian, Minhai Zhang, Hongmei Mo, Huanjie Zhu, Dongsheng Chen, Jun Xu, Ying Zou, Honggang Chi, Yuzhen Zhu

The Role of cIAP1 and XIAP in Apoptosis Induced by Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells

Shoichiro Hikami, Atsushi Shiozaki, Maki Kitagawa-Juge, Daisuke Ichikawa, Toshiyuki Kosuga, Hirotaka Konishi, Shuhei Komatsu, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Kazuma Okamoto, Eigo Otsuji

MicroRNA-98 Suppress Warburg Effect by Targeting HK2 in Colon Cancer Cells

Weimin Zhu, Yijiao Huang, Qi Pan, Pei Xiang, Nanlan Xie, Hao Yu

Daily Intake of High-Fat Diet with Lysophosphatidic Acid-Rich Soybean Phospholipids Augments Colon Tumorigenesis in Kyoto Apc Delta Rats

Toshihiko Tsutsumi, Manami Inoue, Yoko Okamoto, Akira Ishihara, Akira Tokumura

Genetic Biomarker Prevalence Is Similar in Fecal Immunochemical Test Positive and Negative Colorectal Cancer Tissue

Theodore R. Levin, Douglas A. Corley, Christopher D. Jensen, Amy R. Marks, Wei K. Zhao, Alexis M. Zebrowski, Virginia P. Quinn, Lawrence W. Browne, William R. Taylor, David A. Ahlquist, Graham P. Lidgard, Barry M. Berger

MicroRNA-19b Expression in Human Biliary Atresia Specimens and Its Role in BA-Related Fibrosis

Dong Zhao, Yi Luo, Yun Xia, Jian-Jun Zhang, Qiang Xia

Peribiliary Gland Dilatation in Cirrhosis: Relationship with Liver Failure and Stem Cell/Proliferation Markers

Nicolas Goossens, Romain Breguet, Claudio De Vito, Sylvain Terraz, Nathalie Lin-Marq, Emiliano Giostra, Laura Rubbia-Brandt, Laurent Spahr

Comparative Analysis of Mutational Profile of Sonic hedgehog Gene in Gallbladder Cancer

Ruhi Dixit, Manoj Pandey, Sunil Kumar Tripathi, Amit Nandan Dhar Dwivedi, Vijay Kumar Shukla

Roles of microRNA-330 and Its Target Gene ING4 in the Development of Aggressive Phenotype in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells

Xiao Hu, Yujie Feng, Lin Sun, Linlin Qu, Chuandong Sun

Diabetics on Narcotics Are Less Likely to Achieve Excellent Bowel Preparation Than Are Patients with Either Condition

Mohammad F. Madhoun, Hussein Bitar, Owais Bhatti, Hassaan Zia, Pratyusha Parava, Muhammad H. Bashir

Multicenter Prospective Study on the Safety of Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures in Antithrombotic Drug Users

Yoshiyasu Kono, Minoru Matsubara, Tatsuya Toyokawa, Ryuta Takenaka, Seiyu Suzuki, Junichirou Nasu, Masao Yoshioka, Masahiro Nakagawa, Motowo Mizuno, Hiroyuki Sakae, Makoto Abe, Tatsuhiro Gotoda, Ko Miura, Hiromitsu Kanzaki, Masaya Iwamuro, Keisuke Hori, Takao Tsuzuki, Masahide Kita, Seiji Kawano, Yoshiro Kawahara, Hiroyuki Okada

Effect of Vonoprazan, a Potassium-Competitive Acid Blocker, on the 13C-Urea Breath Test in Helicobacter pylori-Positive Patients

Mayu Takimoto, Toshihiko Tomita, Takahisa Yamasaki, Shota Fukui, Masato Taki, Takuya Okugawa, Takashi Kondo, Tomoaki Kono, Katsuyuki Tozawa, Eitatsu Arai, Yoshio Ohda, Tadayuki Oshima, Hirokazu Fukui, Jiro Watari, Hiroto Miwa

Bleeding After Endoscopic Procedures in Patients With Chronic Hematologic Thrombocytopenia

Hyun Jin Oh, Jae Myung Park, Seung Bae Yoon, Han Hee Lee, Chul-Hyun Lim, Jin Su Kim, Yu Kyung Cho, Bo-In Lee, Young-Seok Cho, Myung-Gyu Choi

Soluble Syndecan-1: A Novel Biomarker of Small Bowel Mucosal Damage in Children with Celiac Disease

D. Yablecovitch, A. Oren, S. Ben-Horin, E. Fudim, R. Eliakim, T. Saker, F. M. Konikoff, U. Kopylov, T. Matthias, A. Lerner

Prevalence of Restless Legs Syndrome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Ikuko Takahara, Fuminao Takeshima, Tatsuki Ichikawa, Toshihisa Matsuzaki, Hidetaka Shibata, Satoshi Miuma, Yuko Akazawa, Hisamitsu Miyaaki, Naota Taura, Kazuhiko Nakao

Gender-Specific Differences in Baseline, Peak, and Delta Serum Creatinine: The NACSELD Experience

Jacqueline G. O’Leary, Florence Wong, K. Rajender Reddy, Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, Patrick S. Kamath, Scott W. Biggins, Michael B. Fallon, Ram M. Subramanian, B. Maliakkal, Leroy Thacker, Jasmohan S. Bajaj

Small Gallstone Size and Delayed Cholecystectomy Increase the Risk of Recurrent Pancreatobiliary Complications After Resolved Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

Sung Bum Kim, Tae Nyeun Kim, Hyun Hee Chung, Kook Hyun Kim

Effectiveness and Safety of Entecavir or Tenofovir in a Spanish Cohort of Chronic Hepatitis B Patients: Validation of the Page-B Score to Predict Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Mar Riveiro-Barciela, David Tabernero, José L. Calleja, Sabela Lens, María L. Manzano, Francisco Gea Rodríguez, Javier Crespo, Belén Piqueras, Juan M. Pascasio, Carmen Comas, Maria L. Gutierrez, Alberto Aguirre, Emilio Suárez, Javier García-Samaniego, Miguel Rivero, Doroteo Acero, Miguel Fernandez-Bermejo, Diego Moreno, Pilar Sánchez-Pobre, Beatriz de Cuenca, J. J Moreno-Palomares, Rafael Esteban, Maria Buti

Hepatic Encephalopathy Is Associated with Persistent Learning Impairments Despite Adequate Medical Treatment: A Multicenter, International Study

Silvia Nardelli, Sanath Allampati, Oliviero Riggio, Kevin D. Mullen, Ravi Prakash, Stefania Gioia, Ariel Unser, Melanie B. White, Andrew C. Fagan, James B. Wade, Alessio Farcomeni, Edith A. Gavis, Jasmohan S. Bajaj

Patients’ Age Rather Than Model of End-Stage Liver Disease Score Predicts Survival After Liver Transplantation

Yaara Leibovici-Weissman, Eytan Mor, Moshe Leshno, Amir Shlomai

Rapid Alanine Aminotransferase Normalization with Entecavir and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Hepatitis B Virus-Associated Cirrhosis

Eui Joo Kim, Jong Eun Yeon, Oh Sang Kwon, Heon Nam Lee, Seung Kak Shin, Seong Hee Kang, Kwan Soo Byun, Jeong Han Kim, So Young Kwon, Sang Jun Suh, Hyung Joon Yim, Yun Soo Kim, Ju Hyun Kim

De Novo Inflammatory Bowel Disease After Bariatric Surgery: A Case Series and Literature Review

Gregory R. Bernstein, Octavia Pickett-Blakely