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Can fluid resuscitation prevent pancreatic necrosis in severe acute pancreatitis?Alphonso Brown
Center for Pancreatic Disease, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Pancreatology 2:104-7. 2002..The aim of the present study was to determine whether fluid resuscitation could prevent pancreatic necrosis among patients with hemoconcentration at the time of admission...
Association of industry sponsorship to published outcomes in gastrointestinal clinical researchAlphonso Brown
The Pancreas Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 4:1445-51. 2006....
Are health related outcomes in acute pancreatitis improving? An analysis of national trends in the U.S. from 1997 to 2003Alphonso Brown
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02215, USA
JOP 9:408-14. 2008..Despite advances in diagnostic and therapeutic technology it is unclear whether we have been able to impact health related outcomes of acute pancreatitis such as incidence and mortality...
International consensus guidelines for surgical resection of mucinous neoplasms cannot be applied to all cystic lesions of the pancreasMandeep S Sawhney
Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 7:1373-6. 2009..We sought to determine whether the consensus guidelines can be applied to all cystic lesions of the pancreas...
The panc 3 score: a rapid and accurate test for predicting severity on presentation in acute pancreatitisAlphonso Brown
Division of Gastroenterology, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dana Research Building, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
J Clin Gastroenterol 41:855-8. 2007..The goal of our study was to develop a simple rule that could rapidly identify those at risk for severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) in the ER...
Meta-analysis of the placebo response in ulcerative colitisSagar Garud
Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 300 Deaconess Building, 1 Deaconess Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Dig Dis Sci 53:875-91. 2008..The placebo response rate in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in ulcerative colitis (UC) varies from 0 to 76%. The aims of this study were to quantify the pooled placebo response rate and identify the factors affecting it...
An unusual variant of anomalous pancreaticobiliary junction in a patient with pancreas divisum diagnosed with secretin-magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatographyColm J McMahon
Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Pancreas 39:101-4. 2010..The features that allowed the diagnosis to be made and the implications of this diagnosis are described in this report...
Comparison of carcinoembryonic antigen and molecular analysis in pancreatic cyst fluidMandeep S Sawhney
Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Gastrointest Endosc 69:1106-10. 2009..Pancreatic-cyst fluid carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels and molecular analysis are useful diagnostic tests in differentiating mucinous from nonmucinous cysts...
Endoscopic sphincterotomy permits interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with moderately severe gallstone pancreatitisT Ryan Heider
Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 10:1-5. 2006..Hospital discharge of these patients permits interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy, but close follow-up is necessary in these potentially ill patients...
A national comparison of surgical versus percutaneous drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts: 1997-2001John M Morton
Department of Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 5655, USA
J Gastrointest Surg 9:15-20; discussion 20-1. 2005....
Pediatric acute pancreatitis--deciphering the black boxAlphonso Brown
J Clin Gastroenterol 37:100-2. 2003
Predicting severity in acute pancreatitis: in search of a perfect markerAlphonso Brown
J Clin Gastroenterol 36:195-7. 2003
Urinary trypsinogen activation peptide is more accurate than hematocrit in determining severity in patients with acute pancreatitis: a prospective studyZia Khan
Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York 11219, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 97:1973-7. 2002..We conclude that urinary TAP is a more accurate predictor of severity in patients with acute pancreatitis compared with Hct. Urinary TAP should be used to determine severity in patients early in the course of acute pancreatitis...
