Browsing by Author "Sayuk, Gregory S."

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Lack of Association Between Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) Use and Early Plastic Biliary Stent Occlusion

Azar, Riad R.; Hovis, Christine E.; Sayuk, Gregory S.; Wani, Sachin B.; Merrill, Joseph T.; Murad, Faris (2016-09-09)

There are data suggesting that long-term use of PPIs may lead to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Plastic biliary stents are used to maintain patency of the biliary tract in a variety of benign and malignant disorders ...
Plastic Versus Self-Expanding Metallic Stents for the Management of Malignant Hilar Biliary Strictures

Azar, Riad R.; Jin, David X.; Wani, Sachin B.; Sayuk, Gregory S.; Hovis, Christine E.; Mullady, Daniel; Murad, Faris; Early, Dayna S. (2016-09-23)

Palliation of jaundice as primary or adjunctive therapy has become the standard approach to patients with unresectable malignant obstruction of the biliary hilum. However, use of plastic or self-expanding metallic stents ...
Success rates for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with altered anatomy from prior surgical intervention

Azar, Riad R.; Al-Lehibi, Abed H.; Kumar, Nitin; Sayuk, Gregory S.; Ammar, Tarek; Murad, Faris (2016-09-08)

With cumulative increase in patients, progressively larger numbers of patients with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and pancreatoduodenectomy are requiring ERCP. We examined our rate of success with endoscopic techniques ...

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