Predictors of recurrent esophageal food impaction: a case-control study.

Background: Esophageal food impaction (FI) is a distressing condition requiring urgent endoscopic intervention, with a reported recurrence rate between 10% and 20%. Knowledge of factors predisposing to recurrent FI may enable preventive measures to minimize the risk of recurrence.

Objective: To identify risk factors associated with recurrent FI.

Fractures and avascular necrosis before and after orthotopic liver transplantation: long-term follow-up and predictive factors.

Unlabelled: With early posttransplant bone loss, orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) recipients experience a high rate of fracturing and some avascular necrosis (AVN), but little is known about the incidence of and predictive factors for these skeletal complications. We studied 360 consecutive patients who underwent transplantation for primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and assessed both vertebral and nonvertebral (rib, pelvic, and femur) fractures in a protocolized fashion. Before OLT, 20% of the patients had experienced fracturing, and 1.

Factors predicting initial career choices in gastroenterology fellows.

Background And Goals: As academic gastroenterology (GI) fellowship programs often gear trainee recruitment to those displaying potential for academic careers, the aim of the study was to determine whether predictive factors exist that determine whether GI fellows pursue academia versus private practice.

Study: Educational file review was conducted on all GI fellows from Mayo Clinic-Rochester from 1990 through 2003, with demographic variables extracted. The outcome of interest was whether the first job after fellowship was in academics or private practice.