Please plan on joining us for GI journal club this Tuesday, Sept 22 at 5PM in the Tyor Conference room.

Rey Quevedo will present the Khanna et al paper “Early combined immunosuppression for the management of Crohn’s disease (REACT): a cluster randomized controlled trial” from the Lancet. 2015. PMID 26342731

Yuval Patel will present a paper by De Pietri et al “Thromboelastography-guided blood product use before invasive procedures in cirrhosis with severe coagulopathy. A randomized controlled trial” from Hepatology. 2015. PMID 26340411.

Hassan Dakik will present a paper by Sanchez-Espiridion et al “Identification of serum markers of esophageal adenocarcinoma by global and targeted metabolic profiling” from Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2015. PMID 25998788.

Our next GI Journal Club will be held this Tuesday, June 16th, at 5PM in the Tyor Conference Room.

Scharles will present the therapeutics/imaging paper by Atam FR et al: Wet suction technique (WEST): a novel way to enhance the quality of EUS-FNA aspirate. Results of a prospective, single-blind, randomized, controlled trial using a 22-gauge needle for EUS-FNA of solid lesions” GIE. 81: 1401–1407. 2015. PMID 25733127.

Yuval will present the biliary paper by Tarek Sawas et al: Self-expandable metal stents versus plastic stents for malignant biliary obstruction: a meta-analysis. GIE. 2015. PMID 25982849.

And for the hot topic, Julius will present Andrew Muir’s recent JAMA paper: “Daclatasvir in Combination With Asunaprevir
and Beclabuvir for Hepatitis C Virus Genotype 1 Infection With Compensated Cirrhosis. 313: 1736-1744. PMID 25942724.

Please do plan to join us on Tuesday evening for journal club.