Publications by authors named "Brandon Sprung"

Starting a new job as an academic gastroenterologist can be very exciting and anxiety provoking at the same time. This is particularly true when the junior faculty member is faced with the unique challenges of practicing medicine in today's world while still attempting to maintain work-life balance and avoid professional burnout. In discussions with several junior colleagues in the specialty over the years, it became clear that there is a relative lack of structured guidance in the literature regarding helping them navigate these turbulent waters in their early careers and setting them up for professional success in the long term.

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BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal tract mucosal calcinosis (MC) tends to affect the gastric mucosa, while esophageal involvement is rare. Gastric MC may be seen with solid organ transplantation, use of aluminum-containing antacids or sucralfate, malignancy, and chronic renal failure. While the incidence of gastric MC in renal transplant patients undergoing gastric biopsy is common (between 15-29%), to our knowledge esophageal MC has only been previously reported 3 times.

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Background And Aims: Split-dose bowel preparation is associated with improved mucosal visualization and patient tolerance, becoming a standard of care. However, quality measures data associated with this preparation are limited. At our academic tertiary-care facility, we aim to study the effect of changing from single- to split-dose preparation on colonoscopy quality measures.

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