Tisha Lunsford

TL;DR: A novel immunohistochemical scoring system was developed to address an unmet medical need to differentiate histologic specimens from patients with EoE relative to those with GERD and will provide a valuable strategy for the assessment of esophageal eosinophilia.

TL;DR: The causes of CRP elevation and the use of different CRP assays in internal medicine, including cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and oncology are addressed and the inclusion of information on hs-CRP values with other cardiovascular risk factors may assist physicians in medical decision making for patients are discussed.

TL;DR: Autoimmune serology is a valuable adjunct to the diagnosis and guide to management of patients with AGID and the favorable response to acetylcholinesterase inhibitors suggests an immunopharmacologic rather than an inflammatory cytotoxic pathology.

TL;DR: Evaluated mucosal biopsies of the squamocolumnar junction from patients who had GERD provided further evidence that ME may represent an early, transitional form of columnar metaplasia, and that Me may be used as a histologic marker of reflux disease in mucosalBiopsies from the gastroesophageal junction region.

TL;DR: The frequency of anal incontinence was associated with increased HRQOL-Interference, but minimally with the degree of psychosocial impairment, and depression was inversely correlated with QOL-Satisfaction and Q OL-Ratings and positively correlated withQOL -Interference.