Gastro Hep Advances

AGA Journals' Editorial Fellowships This one-year program is designed to equip fellows and early career GIs for a future leadership position in scientific publishing.

📣 Calling all early-career GIs and PhDs! The AGA Journals are now accepting applications for a one-year editorial fellowship program focused on editorial training and leadership development.
⏰ Apply by April 30, 2026
🔗 Details and application: https://ow.ly/jZiC50YqrHv
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Even 3% weight loss was linked to lower MASLD, at-risk MASH & LSM prevalence, with larger losses beyond current guidelines showing greater benefit.
🔗 https://ow.ly/lBHp50YoTVW

📸 Endoscopic mucosal T-cell flow cytometry is feasible and shows a low CD56/CD3 ratio as a promising marker to help diagnose intestinal GVHD after stem cell transplantation.
🔗 https://ow.ly/itFf50YoTTX

Check out this 🫧#PearlsfromthePros article that discuses "Incidental Hepatic Steatosis"
🔗 https://ow.ly/9cqy50YkqUc

📃 Retrospective analysis of SRTR data found that fewer CF-related liver disease patients were waitlisted for liver transplant after FDA approval of triple CFTR modulator therapy.
🔗 https://ow.ly/zakA50YkqkX
🏷️ #FeatureArticle #LiverHealth

🌟 Check out this #FeaturedArticle where research features of protein aggregation in AATD carriers suggests worse prognosis!
🔗 https://ow.ly/LY0B50Ykqbc

📚 Authors found that cysteine restriction-induced ferroptosis of liver cancer cells was dependent on S-adenosylmethionine.
📑 Simultaneous methionine restriction aborted ferroptosis.
🔗 https://ow.ly/EYja50Ykq1h
🏷️ #FeaturedArticle #LiverHealth

📑 Mortality rates from #pancreaticcancer have been increasing. This research article "analyzes trends in incidence rates, incidence-based mortality, 2-year survival rates, and disease progression, focusing on gender and racial disparities."
🔗 https://ow.ly/QB2o50Yhlse

➡️ Check out this featured commentary that discusses how to improve liver assessments to the tests that are currently improved.
🔗 https://ow.ly/guek50YhkPM
🏷️ #LiverHealth #FeaturedArticle

Endohepatology unites #hepatology & #endoscopy 🤝 EUS enables biopsy, portal pressure, variceal therapy & much more ➡️ Promise needs to meet pragmatism as innovation is balanced with safety & evidence ⚖️
🔗 https://ow.ly/pVbI50Yhk5L
🏷️ #GutHealth

📣 The next issue of Gastro Hep Advances' fifth volume is available now! 🔗 https://ow.ly/Grpn50YhiRY

The next article from Gastro Hep Advances 🫧#PearlsfromthePros series features Dr. Lawrence J. Brandt discussing why you shouldn't perform digital rectal exams with patients that have radiation proctopathy.
🔗 https://ow.ly/Pqvv50YbPJX

➡️ PTCS-assisted laser stricturotomy is a safe and effective treatment for benign biliary strictures that can eliminate the need for long-term biliary drainage in patients with limited treatment options.
🔗 https://ow.ly/CQYp50YbP8w
🏷️ #GutHealth

📐 Does surgery length matter in cirrhosis? In 11,088 pts, duration independently predicted 90d mortality in a bimodal pattern—suggesting use in post-op risk stratification
🔗 https://ow.ly/5OXs50YbOMM
🏷️ #LiverHealth

🧫 This recently published research article shows your gut may be an active reservoir for Hepatitis E virus, not just your liver—producing virus particles found in feces.
🔗 https://ow.ly/g1tF50YbOoE
🏷️ #GutHealth #LiverHealth #Hepatitis

🔎 This case report demonstrates a low-cost, patient-led approach for eosinophilic esophagitis by swallowed nasal fluticasone and honey which led to histologic remission.
🔗 https://ow.ly/yGuF50Y8rXz
🏷️ #EoE #GutHealth

➡️ This #narrativereview provides an overview of functional dysphagia and details our unique multidisciplinary approach to these patients from the perspective of GI, speech-language pathologists, and GI psychologists at the USF Swallowing Center
🔗 https://ow.ly/uaVv50Y8rKU

➡️ Recent Abdominal Surgery as a Risk Factor for Unfavorable Immune-Mediated Colitis Outcomes.
🔗 https://ow.ly/F9Fi50Y7Wo7

🏘️ Lower neighborhood social cohesion was associated with higher odds of chronic liver disease, and with higher mortality among adults with chronic liver disease compared to those without the disease.
🔗 https://ow.ly/mG4r50Y45MM
🏷️ #LiverDiease #GutHealth

🌐 Check out this systematic review where network meta-analysis compares the past and current pharmaceutical treatments for #Crohnsdisease
🔗 https://ow.ly/Hfxh50Y45pG

➡️ A commentary that shared the gastroenterology division’s experience with a cultural sensitivity lecture series to understand the current state and guide the future direction of enhancing cultural humility in the field. ⭐ Read now!
🔗 https://ow.ly/J7iB50Y45in

🔍 How does cohort eligibility shift across racial groups?
📑 Guidelines to screen patients w/chronic HBV for HCC no longer use race-based criteria.
🔗 https://ow.ly/Ciql50Y0qEo
🏷️ #GutHealth #HBV

⭐ This large Japanese cohort study shows MASLD markedly increases cardiovascular disease risk but has minimal impact on hypertension, underscoring the need for outcome-specific risk stratification.
🔗 https://ow.ly/BN8I50Y0qzG
🏷️ #MASLD #GutHealth

➡️ In a CEA, the 8-strain probiotic formulation was not cost-effective for primary prevention of pouchitis. For secondary prophylaxis, it was cost-effective for frequent but not for infrequent pouchitis.
🔗 https://ow.ly/tbh650Y0qwi

🔎 VA investigators use a nationwide health-record linked genomic biobank to develop & validate an NLP algorithm to identify upper GI premalignancy/malignancy.
🔍 They further found that 13-14% of Veterans have esophageal or gastric intestinal metaplasia
🔗 https://ow.ly/f3yu50XVTYK

📉 Did you know that elevated levels of estrogen, in particularly estrone (E1), are associated with disease severity and the use of spironolactone in men with cirrhosis.
🔗 https://ow.ly/2YZ450XVTGJ
🏷️ #GutHealth #FeaturedArticle

➡️ With the newest volume available to read now, check out the latest Editor's Essential Reading!
⭐ "National Institutes of Health–Wide Workshop: Impact of Diet on Mucosal Immunity and Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract"
🔗 https://ow.ly/I8I950XVTCG

Check out this report 📁 A 70-year-old woman presents w/ 1 year of diarrhea, dysphagia, & 100 lb weight loss. Biopsies showed ring mitoses consistent w/ colchicine toxicity. Symptoms resolved w/in 3 days of stopping colchicine. 🔗 https://ow.ly/HgU450XSelP

⭐ From this recent published article, DSB-induced translocation of 27bpMSH3 involves binding to NEMO/IKK of the NFB pathway in the nucleus then accumulation in the cytosol.
🔗 https://ow.ly/EHYF50XSe6Z

🔎 This study provides insight into target organs for FGF-based drugs and shows that hepatic KLB remains expressed in early and advanced MASLD stages, supporting the use of FGF-based drugs in MASLD.
🔗 https://ow.ly/e0Be50XSats
🏷️ #GIHealth