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Our Specialists: Publications
Research and clinical trials are a vital
part in learning more about diseases of the pancreas. Our
specialists are dedicated to contributing to the medical
advancements of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Below
are a selection of featured publications by our specialists.
2006
Factors Associated with
Insulin and Narcotic Independence after Islet Autotransplantation
in Patients with Severe Chronic Pancreatitis.
Syed A Ahmad, MD, Andrew M Lowy, MD, FACS, Curtis JWray, MD, David D’Alessio, MD, Kywran A Choe, MD, Laura E James, MS, Andreas Gelrud, MD, Jeffrey B Matthews, MD, FACS, Horacio LR Rilo, MD
2005
Surgery
for Pancreatic Cancer: Recent Controversies and Current Practice.
Curtis J. Wray, Syed A. Ahmad, Jeffrey B. Matthews, and Andrew M.
Lowy
Clinical
Significance of Bacterial Cultures from 28 Autologous Islet Cell
Transplant Solutions.
Wray
CJ, Ahmad
SA, Lowy
AM, D'Alessio
DA, Gelrud
A, Choe
KA, Soldano
DA, Matthews
JB, Rodriguez-Rilo
HL
2004
Shah P, Ho I, Schmulewitz N. Band
ligation of a colonic Dieulafoy lesion in a patient with C.
Difficile. (under review)
Schmulewitz N, Sanaka S, Ho I, Jordan
A, Rosato R MD. A case of pancreatic carcinoma in the setting of
radiation pancreatitis. (under review)
Varadarajulu S, Fraig M, Schmulewitz N,
Roberts S, Wildi S, Hawes RH, Hoffman BJ, Wallace MB. Comparison
of EUS-Guided 19-Gauge Trucut Needle Biopsy With EUS-Guided
Fine-Needle Aspiration. Endoscopy 2004; 26(5):397-401.
Wildi SM, Fickling WE, Day TA,
Cunningham CD, Schnulewitz N, Varadarajulu S, Roberts S, Ferguson
B, Hoffman BJ, Hawes RH, Wallace MB. Endoscopic ultrasonography in
the diagnosis and staging of neoplasms of the head and neck.
(Accepted for publication in Endoscopy)
Varadarajulu S, Schmulewitz N, Wildi
SF, Roberts S, Ravenel J, Reed CE, Block MI, Hoffman BJ, Hawes RH,
Wallace MB. Accuracy of EUS in staging of T4 lung cancer.
Gastrointest Endosc 2004;59:345-8.
Chauhan, Shailendra S., Long, John D.
Management of Tracheoesophageal Fistulas in Adults. Curr Treat
Options Gastroenterol. 2004 Feb; 7(1):31-40 2003
Chauhan, Shailendra S., Zucker,
Stephen D. Hypercholesterolemia in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Getting to the Heart of the Matter? Gastroenterology. 2003
Mar;124(3):854-6
Biology of Colorectal Liver Metastases.
Ahmad SA, Berman RS, Ellis LM. In Vauthey JN (ed.):
Surgical Oncology Clinics of North America. WB Saunders Company,
Philadelphia, PA, 2003, p 135-150.
Total Pancreatectomy and Autologous
Islet Cell Transplantation as a Means of Treat Severe Chronic
Pancreatitis. HL Rilo, SA Ahmad, D D'Alessio, Y Iwanaga, KA
Choe, JS Moulton, J Martin LJ Pennington, DA Soldano, J
Biliter, SP Martin, CD Ulrich, L Somogyi, J Welge, JB
Matthews, AM Lowy. Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
In Press.
Shea JC, Bishop MD, Gelrud A,
Freedman SD. An Enteral Therapy Containing Medium Chain
Triglycerides and Hydrolyzed Peptides Reduces Post-Prandial Pain
Associated with Chronic Pancreatitis. Pancreatology 2003;3:36-40.
Botto C, Planchart S, Martinez N,
Castro L, Vivas S, Gelrud A. Onchocerciasis in two
Hyperendemic Communities at Different Altitude in the Unturan
Mountains, Southern Venezuela. Revista do Instituto de Medicina
Tropical de Sao Pablo, (submitted).
Freedman Sd, O’Sullivan B, Blanco PG,
Zaman MM, Ollero M, Hopper IK, Weed DDA, Gelrud A, Regan
MM, Laposata M, Alvarez JG. Cystic Fibrosis Is Associated with
Abnormalities in Fatty Acid Metabolism. N Engl J Med (submitted)
Gelrud A, Sheth S, Weed DA,
Telford J, Howel D, Carrolocke D, Banerjee S, Reagan MM, Freedman
SD. Evaluation of CFTR Function in Patients with Recurrent Acute
Pancreatitis and Pancreas Divisum. Lancet (submitted)
Gelrud A, Zaman MM, Junaidi O,
Regan M, Warny M, Shea JC, Kelly C, O’Sullivan BP, Freedman SD.
Homozygous or Heterozygous Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutations Result
in Altered LPS-Induced IL-8 Secreation by Peripheral Blood
Monocytes. The Journal of Clinical Investigation (submitted)
Multimodality Treatment of
Gastrointestinal Malignancies. Kim J, Sussman JJ, Lowy AM, Ahmad
SA. Surgical Oncology: The Requisites. In Press.
Ahmad SA, Abdalla EK, Spitz FR,
Bouvet M, Yahanda AM. Hebatobiliary Cancers; in Feig BW, Berger
DH, Fuhrman GM (eds.): The M. D. Anderson Surgical Oncology
Handbook (3rd Ed.). Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia,
PA. 2003, p 266-302.
Somogyi L, Dimashkieh H, Weber FL, Buell J.
Biliary intraductal papillary mucinous tumor: diagnosis and
localization by endoscopic retrograde cholangioscopy.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 57: 620-622
Angiogenesis and Antiangiogenic Therapy
of Colon Cancer Liver Metastases. Stoeltzing O, Liu W, Reinmuth N,
Parikh A, Ahmad SA, Jung YD, Fan F, Ellis LM. Ann Surg Onc.
2003 10(7): 722-733.
Sweeney JT, Shah RJ, Martin SP, Ulrich
CD, Somogyi, L: The impact of radiologic
interpretation of ERCP films on patient care: Should it be routine
or selective? Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 58:549-53
Angiopoietin-1 inhibits vascular
permeability, angiogenesis, and growth of hepatic colon cancer
tumors. Stoeltzing O, Ahmad SA, Liu W, McCarty MF, Wey JS,
Parikh AA, Fan F, Reinmuth N, Kawaguchi M, Bucana CD, Ellis LM.
Cancer Res. 2003 Jun 15;63(12):3370-7.
Increased Biliary Fistulas Following
Liver Resection with the Harmonic Scalpel. Kim J, Ahmad SA,
Lowy AM, Buell JF, Pennington LJ Saldano DA, James LE,
Matthews JB, Hanto DW. American Surgeon. In Press.
An Alogorithm for the Accurate
Identification of Benign Liver Lesions. Kim J, Ahmad SA, Lowy
AM, Buell JF, Pennington LJ, Moulton JB, Matthews JB, Hanto DW.
The American Journal of Surgery. In Press.
Lowy AM, Knight JM, Groden J. Restoration of E-cadherin/?-catenin
expression in pancreatic cancer cells inhibits growth by induction
of apoptosis. Surgery. 132:141-148, 2002.
Sundararajan V, Robinson-Smith TM, Lowy
AM. Duodenal gangliocytic paraganglioma with lymph node
metastasis: a case report and review of the literature. Arch
Pathol Lab Med. 127: e139-41, 2003.
Lowy AM, Fenoglio-Preiser C,
Kim OJ, Kordich JK, Gomez A, Knight J, Groden JL. Dysregulation of
beta-catenin expression correlates with differentiation in
pancreatic duct adenocarcinoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology.
10:284-290, 2003.
Sarnaik A, Mutema G, Martin SP, Attar
A, Lowy AM. Osteoclast giant cell tumor arising in a
mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Surgery. 133:700-701,
2003.
Lowy AM. Transgenic Models of
Pancreatic Cancer. International Journal of Gastrointestinal
Cancer. 33:71-8, 2003.
Clements WC, Lowy AM and
Groden J. Adenomatous polyposis coli/beta-catenin interaction and
downstream targets: altered gene expression in gastrointestinal
tumors. Clin Colorectal Cancer. 3:113-20, 2003.
Clements W, Martin SP, Stemmerman G, Lowy
AM. Ampullary carcinoid tumor: Rationale for an aggressive
surgical approach. J Gastrointestinal Surgery. 7:773-776,
2003.
Sarnaik AA, Jones M, Benson T, Sisco
K, Lowy AM. Wnt signaling down-regulates Alex1, a putative
nuclear tumor suppressor in gastrointestinal and pancreatic
cancer. Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
197:3S-, 2003.
2002
Lowy AM, Knight JM, Groden J. Restoration of E-cadherin/?-catenin
expression in pancreatic cancer cells inhibits growth by induction
of apoptosis. Surgery. 132:141-148, 2002.
Sweeney J, Ulrich CD.
Genetics in pancreatic disease. Clin Perspect Gastroenterol
(In Press).
Ahmad SA, Jung YD, Liu W,
Reinmuth N, Parikh A, Stoeltzing O, Fan F, Ellis LM. The role of
the microenvironment and intracellular cross-talk in tumor
angiogenesis. Semin Cancer Biol (In Press).
Sweeney J, Crabtree D, Yassin R, and Somogyi
L: Metastatic uterine leiomyosarcoma
involving the pancreas diagnosed by EUS-FNA. Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy, 56: 596-597.
2001
Ulrich CD on behalf of the Consensus Committees of the
European Registry of Hereditary Pancreatic Diseases, the Midwest
Multi-Center Pancreatic Study Group, and the International
Association of Pancreatology (IAP). Pancreatic cancer in
hereditary pancreatitis: guidelines for prevention, screening, and
treatment. Pancreatology 1:412-418, 2001.
Ellis I, Lerch MM, Whitcomb DC et al
on behalf of the Consensus Committees of the European Registry of
Hereditary Pancreatic Diseases, the Midwest Multi-Center
Pancreatic Study Group, and the International Association of
Pancreatology. Genetic testing for hereditary pancreatitis:
guidelines for indications, counseling, consent and privacy
issues. Pancreatology 1:405-415, 2001.
Somogyi L, Martin SP,
Venkatesan T, Ulrich CD. Recurrent acute pancreatitis: an
algorithmic approach to identification and elimination of inciting
factors. Gastroenterology 120:708-717, 2001.
Somogyi L, Martin SP, and Ulrich
CD: Recurrent acute pancreatitis. Current
Treatment Options In Gastroenterology, 4: 361-368.
Whitcomb DC and Somogyi L:
Lessons from hereditary pancreatitis. Croatian Medical Journal,
42: 483-486, 2001
Ellis LM, Liu W, Fan F, Jung YD,
Reinmuth N, Shaheen RM, Ahmad, SA. Role of angiogenesis
inhibitors in cancer treatment. Oncology 15:39-46, 2001.
Sheiman RG, Chan R, Matthews JB.
Percutaneous treatment of a pancreatic fistula after
pancreaticoduodenectomy. J Vasc Interv Radiol 12:524-526,
2001.
Sweeney JT, Martin SP, Ulrich
CD, Somogyi L. The impact of radiologic interpretation
of ERCP films on patient care: a prospective study. Gastrointest
Endosc 53:AB104, 2001
Ahmad SA, Abdalla EK, Barnett
CC, Wang X, Clearly KR, Vauthey JN, Pisters PWT, Lee JE, Evans DB.
En-bloc SMV/portal vein resection in the treatment of pancreatic
cancer: implications on R0 resection rates and survival. Pancreas
Club May 2001.
2000
Panza JL, Wagner WR, Rilo HL, Rao RH, Beckman EJ,
Russell AJ. Treatment of rat pancreatic islets with reactive PEG. Biomaterials
21:1155-1164, 2000.
Davis B, Lowy AM. Surgical
Management of Hereditary Pancreatic Cancer. Medical Clinics of
North America. 84, 749-759, 2000.
Ulrich CD, Kopras E, Wu Y,
Ward S. Hereditary pancreatitis: epidemiology, molecules,
mutations, and models. J Lab Clin Med 136:260-274, 2000.
Jung YD, Ahmad SA, Akagi Y,
Takahashi Y, Liu W, Reinmuth N, Shaheen RM, Fan F, Ellis LM. Role
of the tumor microenvironment in mediating response to anti-angiogenic
therapy. Cancer Metastasis Rev 19:147-157, 2000.
Shah R, Sweeney J, Martin
SP, Ulrich CD, Somogyi L. ERCP interpretation by
radiologists: does it have a role? Gastrointest Endosc
51:AB76, 2000.
Saldinger PF, Reilly M, Reynolds K,
Raptopoulos, Chuttani R, Steer ML, Matthews JB. Is
CT-angiography sufficient for prediction of resectability of
pancreatico-duodenal neoplasms? J Gastrointestinal Surg
4:233-239, 2000.
Ulrich CD. Medical management
of acute pancreatitis: strategies, reality, and potential. Curr
Gastroenterol Rep 2:115-119, 2000.
Shah RJ, Martin SP. Endoscopic
retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in the diagnosis and
management of pancreatic diseases. Curr Gastroenterol Rep
2:133-45, 2000.
Martin SP, Ulrich CD.
Pancreatic cancer surveillance in a high-risk cohort: is it worth
the cost? Med Clin N Am 84:739-747, 2000.
Ulrich CD. Growth factors,
receptors, and molecular alterations in pancreatic cancer: putting
it all together. Med Clin N Am 84:697-705, 2000.
Soleimani M, Ulrich CD. How
cystic fibrosis affects pancreatic ductal bicarbonate uptake and
secretion. Med Clin N Am 84:641-655, 2000.
Somogyi L, Cintron M and
Toskes PP. Synthetic porcine secretin is highly accurate in
pancreatic function testing in individuals with chronic
pancreatitis. Pancreas 21:262-265, 2000.
1999
Theriault BR, Thistlethwaite, JR Jr, Levisetti MG, Wardrip CL,
Szot G. Bruce DS, Rilo H, Li X, Gray GS, Bluestone JA,
Padrid PA. Induction, maintenance, and reversal of streptozotocin-induced
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in the juvenile cynomolgus
monkey (Macaca fascilularis). Transplantation 68:331-337,
1999.
Martin SP, Ulrich CD.
Complicated acute pancreatitis. Curr Treat Opt Gastroenterol
2:215-225, 1999.
Martin SP, Ulrich CD.
Pancreatic diseases in the elderly. Clin Geriatr Med
15:579-605, 1999.
Hough TJ, Raptopoulos V, Siewert B, Matthews
JB. Teardrop superior mesenteric vein: CT sign for
unresectable carcinoma of the pancreas. AJR 173:1509-1512,
1999.
Bracher GA, Manocha AP, DeBanto J,
Gates LK, Slivka A, Whitcomb DC, Bleau BL, Ulrich CD, Martin
SP. Endoscopic pancreatic duct stenting to treat pancreatic
ascites. Gastrointest Endosc 49:710-715, 1999.
Manocha AP, Sossenheimer M, Martin
SP, Sherman KE, Venkatesan T, Whitcomb DC, Ulrich CD.
Prevalence and predictors of severe acute pancreatitis in patients
with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Am J
Gastroenterol 94:784-789, 1999.
1998
Adra CN, Iyengar AR, Syed FA, Kanaan IN, Rilo HL, Yu W,
Kheraj R, Lin SR, Horiuchi T, Ckan S, Weremowicz S, Lim B, Morton
CC, Higgs DR. Human AARHGDIG, a GDP-dissociation inhibitor for Rho
protein: genomic structure, sequence, expression analysis, and
mapping to chromosome 16p13.3. Genomics 53:104-109, 1998.
Somogyi L, Forsmark CE.
Pancreatic duct stenting in benign pancreatic disease. Semin
Gastrointest Dis 9:73-79, 1998.
Leach S, Lee JE, Charnsangavej C,
Cleary KR, Lowy AM, Fenoglio CJ, Pisters PWT, Evans DB.
Pancreatic malignancy involving the superior mesenteric-portal
vein confluence is not a contraindication to
pancreaticoduodenectomy. Br J Surg 85:611-617, 1998.
Somogyi L, Forsmark CE.
Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas. Endoscopy
30:S55-S56, 1998.
1997
Gorry MC, Gabbaizedeh D, Furey W, Gates LK, Preston RA, Aston CE,
Zhang Y, Ulrich CD, Ehrlich GD, Whitcomb DC. Mutations in
the cationic trypsinogen gene are associated with recurrent acute
and chronic pancreatitis. Gastroenterology 113:1063-1068,
1997.
Spitz FR, Abbruzzese JL, Lee JE,
Pisters P WT, Lowy AM, Fenoglio CJ, Cleary KR, Janjan NA,
Goswitz MS, Rich TA, Evans DB. Preoperative and postoperative
chemoradiation strategies in patients treated with
pancreaticoduodenectomy for adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. J
Clin Oncol 15:928-937, 1997.
Lowy AM, Lee JE, Pisters PWT,
Davidson BS, Fenoglio CJ, Stanford P, Jinnah R, Evans DB.
Prospective, randomized trial of octreotide to prevent pancreatic
fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy for malignant disease. Ann
Surg 226:632-641, 1997.
Jiang S, Kopras E, McMicheal M, Bell
RH, Ulrich CD. Vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP)
stimulates in vitro growth of VIP-1 receptor-bearing human
pancreatic adenocarcinoma-derived cells. Cancer Res
57:1475-1480, 1997.
1996
Whitcomb DC, Gorry MC, Preston RA, Furey W, Sossenheimer MJ, Ulrich
CD, Martin SP, Gates LK, Amann ST, Toskes PP, Liddle R,
McGrath K, Uomo G, Post JC, Ehrlich GD. Hereditary pancreatitis
(HP) is caused by a mutation in the cationic trypsinogen gene. Nature
Genetics 14:141-145, 1996.
1995
Rilo HL, Carroll PB, Shapiro R, Jordan M, Scantlebury V,
Rastellini C, Fontes P, Alejandro R, Mintz DH, Fung JJ, et al.
Human islet transplantation: results of the first 37 patients. Transplant
Proc 27:3162-3163, 1995.
1994
Matthews JB, Blumgart LH. Benign biliary strictures. In:
Blumgart LH, ed. Surgery of the Liver and Biliary Tract, 2nd
Edition. New York City: Churchill Livingstone, 1994. p.
865-894.
1993
Matthews JB, Baer HU, Schweizer WP, Gertsch P, Carrel T,
Blumgart LH. Recurrent cholangitis with and without stricture
after biliary-enteric bypass. Arch Surg 128:269-272, 1993.

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