Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an increasingly prevalent chronic disease thought to arise from an allergy/immune-mediated process. Reports of patients with […]
Abstract Category: Gastroenterology
Unexpected Candidiasis in the Endoscopically Normal Esophagus
We identified several cases in which a histopathologic diagnosis of Candida esophagitis was made in a patient with no known […]
Intestinal Spirochetosis is Associated with Diarrhea, Weight Loss and Abdominal Pain: A Study of 447 Patients and 1.2 Million Controls
Intestinal spirochetosis is a condition in which the colonic mucosa is colonized by anaerobic spirochetes, either Brachyspira aalborgi or Brachyspira […]
Low Prevalence of Colon Polyps in Patients with Diarrhea and Microscopic Colitis
Microscopic colitis (MC) is a condition that includes a spectrum of histological abnormalities of the colonic mucosa, ranging from an […]
Gastric Pathology in HIV-Infected Patients
Thirty years after its discovery, Helicobacter pylori remains the world’s most common infectious agent, with an estimated prevalence ranging from […]
Proton Pump Inhibitor Use in Patients with Helicobacter Gastritis is Associated with a High Prevalence of Corpus-Predominant Gastritis and Intestinal Metaplasia
European studies have shown that long-term proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy in patients with GERD and antrum-predominant (AP) gastritis may induce […]
Recognition of the null staining pattern increases the utility of p53 IHC in Barrett’s esophagus
Mutation and/or deletion of p53, a cell cycle regulatory gene, is a promising biomarker for predicting the risk of neoplastic […]
Differences and Similarities in the Epidemiology of Lymphocytic and Collagenous Colitis
It is unknown whether the subtypes of microscopic colitis represent distinct nosologic entities or related presentations of the same disease. […]
Hyperplastic Polyps Predict the Subsequent Occurrence of Adenomatous Polyps on Follow-up Colonoscopy
The occurrence of hyperplastic polyps during colonoscopy is usually considered an incidental finding of little or no clinical significance. We […]
Low Prevalence of H. pylori Infection in Patients with Gastroparesis
Gastroparesis is a condition characterized by gastric retention in the absence of physical obstruction. As part of an ongoing project […]
DNA Mismatch Repair Deficiency in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Associated Colorectal Carcinomas
Colorectal cancer (CRC) occurring in the setting of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is relatively uncommon. Compared to sporadic CRC, the […]
Gastroduodenal Pathology in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) includes Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Traditionally, CD is thought to involve the entire […]
Granular Cell Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Clinicopathologic Associations in a Large Series
We designed this study to use a large national pathology database to better characterize the demographic and clinicopathologic features of […]
Lymphocytic Gastritis: A Distinct Nosologic Entity or A Histopathologic Expression of Other Conditions?
Lymphocytic gastritis (LG) is characterized by infiltration of the gastric foveolar epithelium by at least 25 lymphocytes per 100 epithelial […]
Polyps with Advanced Neoplasia are Smaller in the Right than in the Left Colon: Implications for Colorectal Cancer Screening
Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, July 25, 2012 Samir Gupta, MD, Bijal A. Balasubramanian, MBBS, PhD, Tommy Fu, MD, […]
