Publications by authors named "Gael Kornitzer"
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- Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at higher risk for complications from Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) due to immune dysfunction and treatments they receive.
- A study of 120 newly diagnosed IBD patients found that 44.2% tested positive for EBV, with prevalence increasing with age.
- EBV seropositivity did not appear to affect the severity of the disease or the choice of treatment within the first six months.
Benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC) is a disease on the spectrum of familial intrahepatic cholestasis caused by homozygous or mutations. In recent years, genetic testing has allowed for discovery of a variety of homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations associated with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. To our knowledge, no cases of BRIC caused by a single variant mutation of have been reported.
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