Please note that today’s Jan 2014 GI Journal Club has been cancelled due to the winter storm.

Please plan on joining us for the January 2014 GI Journal Club.

Cristal Brown will present a recent paper from Hepatology by Benitez et al entitled “Prospective Multicenter Clinical Trial of Immunosuppressive Drug Withdrawal in Stable Adult Liver Transplant Recipients” Vol 58: 1824-1835. PMID 23532679.

Hassan Dakik will present a therapeutics/imaging paper in Gastroenterology by Ordas et al entitled “Accuracy of magnetic resonance enterography in assessing response to therapy and mucosal healing in patients with Crohn’s disease” 146: 374-382. 2014. PMID 24177375.

Jeff Basile will present a paper on “In vivo endomicroscopy improves detection of Barrett’s esophagus-related neoplasia: a multicenter international randomized controlled trial” by Canto et al. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 79: 211-21. 2014. PMID 24219822.

We will also review the recent Gastro paper on the FODMAPS diet in IBS by Halmos et al. 146: 67-75. PMID 24076059. It will be particularly interesting to discuss how this is being used clinically, and what resources people are using to teach patients.