Please plan on joining us for the Feb 2014 GI Journal Club

Note that between the weather cancellation of the Jan GI Journal Club and a schedule conflict, the date for the Feb GI Journal Club has changed to WED FEB 12^th.

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.

Ivan Harnden will present a biliary paper by Koc et al from The Am J Surg. Comparison of laparoscopic common bile duct exploration and ERCP plus laparoscopic cholecystectomy for choledocholithiasis: a propective randomized study. 206: 257-263. 2013. PMID 23871320.

As time allows, we will also review recent papers from the Annals of particular GI interest:

Accuracy of Fecal Immunohistochemical Tests for Colorectal Cancer. Lee JK et al. 160: 171-181. 2014.

Repeated Upper Endoscopy in the Medicare Population. Pohl et al. 160: 154-160. 2014.