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2006 - 2008
 Hawchar
M, ElHajj I, Sharara AI. NSAID-Induced Colopathy.
J Med Lib 2008 (in press)
- El Hajj I, Sharara AI. Jejunojejunal intussusception caused by an inflammatory
fibroid polyp. Case report and review of the literature.
J Med Liban 2007; 55:108-11.
- Sharara AI. What is the place of
antispasmodic agents and antiflatulent/adsorbant
preparations in the management of IBS and functional
bloating? IBS Forum No. 6, 2006
- Sharara AI. The Colonic Microflora in Health
and Disease and the Role of Carbohydrate Prebiotics. Gastro Newsletter No. 2 , 2008.
- Sharara AI. The Role of Antispasmodics in
the Treatment of Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Gastro
Newsletter No. 2 , 2008.
- Abdul-Baki
H, Hashash JG, ElHajj II, Azar C, ElZahabi L, Skoury A,
Mourad FH, Barada KA, Sharara AI. A
Randomized Controlled Double-Blind Trial of the Adjunct
Use of Tegaserod in Whole-or Split-Dose PEG-Electrolyte
Solution for Colonoscopy Preparation. Gastrointest
Endosc 2008;68:294-300.
- Abi Saad GS, Musallam KM, Karam J, Al-Kutoubi A,
Tawil AN, Sharara AI. Upper GI bleeding and a
unique CT scan. Gut 2008;57:1681, 1737.
- Hashash JG, Abdul-Baki H, Azar C, El Hajj II,
ElZahabi L, Chaar HF, Sharara AI. Clinical
Trial: A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled
Cross-Over Study of Flupenthixol + Melitracen in
Functional Dyspepsia. Alim Pharmacol Ther
2008; 27:1148-55.
- Ramia S, Sharara AI, El-Zaatari M, Ramlawi F,
Mahfouz Z. Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection in
Lebanese Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Liver Disease.
Eur J
Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
2008: 27(3):217-21.
- Barada K, Karowni W, Abdallah M, Shamseddine W, Sharara AI, Dakik HA. Upper Gastrointestinal
Bleeding in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes:
Clinical Predictors and Prophylactic Role of Proton Pump
Inhibitors. J Clin Gastroenterol
2008;42(4):368-72
- El Hajj I, Hashash JG, Baz EM, Abdul-Baki H, Sharara AI. ABO blood group and gastric cancer:
rekindling an old fire? South Med J 2007;
100:726-7.
- Abdul-Baki
H, ElHajj I, Zahabi L, Azar C, Aoun E, Zantout H,
Nasreddine W, Ayyach B, Mourad FH, Soweid A, Barada KA,
Sharara AI. Clinical Epidemiology of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in
Lebanon. Inflamm Bowel Dis 2007;13(4):
475-480
- Ramia S, El-Zaatari M, Sharara AI, Ramlawi F,
Farhat B. Current prevalence of hepatitis delta virus (HDV)
infection and the range of HDV genotypes in Lebanon.
Epidemiol Infect 2007; 135:959-62.
- ElHajj, II, Sharara AI. An unusual cause of
jejunojejunal intussusception. Dig Liver Dis
2007; 39:91.
- Sharara AI, Ramia S, Ramlawi F, Fares JE,
Klayme S, Naman R. Genotypes of hepatitis C virus (HCV)
among positive Lebanese patients: comparison of data
with that from other Middle Eastern countries. Epidemiol Infect 2007;
135:427-32.
- Azar C, Khalifeh M, Al-Kutoubi
AM, Sharara AI. Recurrent Massive
Hemorrhage from an Endoscopically-Inevident Isolated
Rectal Varix. Dig Liver Dis 2006;38:851-3.
- Sharara AI, Aoun E, Abdul-Baki H, Munzer R,
Sidani S, ElHajj I. A randomized double-blind
placebo-controlled trial of rifaximin in patients with
abdominal bloating and flatulence. Am J
Gastroenterol 2006; 101:326-33.
- Sharara AI,
Abdul-Baki H, ElHajj I, Kreidieh N, Kfoury Baz EM.
Association of Gastroduodenal Disease Phenotype
with ABO Blood Group and Virulence-Specific Helicobacter pylori Immunoserotypes.
Dig Liver Dis
2006;38(11):829-33.
- Yaghi C*, Sharara AI*, Rassam
P, Moucari R, Honein K, BouJaoude J, Slim R, Noun R,
Abdul-Baki H, Khalifeh M, Ramia S, Sayegh R.
Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Lebanon: Etiology and
Prognostic Factors Associated with Short-Term Survival.
W J Gastroenterol 2006;12:3573-3580.
*
Both authors
contributed equally to the manuscript
- Sharara AI, Chaar HF,
Aoun E, Abdul-Baki H, Araj
G, Kanj S. Efficacy and Safety of Rabeprazole,
Amoxicillin, and Gatifloxacin as Second-Line Treatment
after Failure of Initial Helicobacter pylori
Eradication. Helicobacter 2006;
11:231-6.
- El-Hajj
II, Salem ZM, Sharara AI. Secondary
Colonic Luminal Involvement by Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Dig Liver Dis 2006;
38(1):67-8.
- Otrock ZK, Sharara AI, Mahfouz RA, Taher AT.
Compound heterozygosity for factor V and
methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutations in a
patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome. J Gastroenterol
Hepatol 2006;21(4): 782-3.
- Sharara AI, Azar C. The Solitary
Rectal Ulcer Syndrome: Endoscopic Spectrum and Review of
the Literature [letter] Gastrointest Endosc
2006; 4:739-40.
- Sharara AI, Aoun E, Koussa S, Inati A, Taher
A. Treatment of acute hepatitis C in a child with
thalassemia major using weight-based peginterferon α-2b.
J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006;21:1221.
- naya Abdallah Hajj Hussein, Rania Tohme, Kassem Barada, Mostafa Hassan Mostafa, Jean-Noel Freund, Rosalyn A. Jurjus, Walid Karam, and Abdo Jurjus. Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Rats : Bacterial and Chemical Interaction. World Journal of Gastroenterology (in press)
- Mirna Farhat, Ayman Tawil, Ali Shamseddine, and
Kassem Barada. Prognostic Factors in Patients with Advanced Cholangiocarcinoma: Role of Surgery, Chemotherapy, and Body Mass Index. World Journal of Gastroenterology 2008 May 28;14(20):3224-30
- Balkis M, Ghosn S, Sharara AI, Kanj SS. Disseminated Varicella Presenting as Acute Abdominal Pain Nine Days before the Appearance of the Rash. Int J Infect Dis 2008 (in press).
- Abi Saad GS, Musallam KM, Karam J, Al-Kutoubi A, Tawil AN,
Sharara AI. Upper GI bleeding and a unique CT scan. Gut 2008 (in press)
- Abdul-Baki H, El Zahabi L, ElHajj II, Azar C, Skoury A, Chaar HF., Aoun E,
Sharara AI. A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial of Imipramine
in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome. World Journal
of Gastroenterology 2008 (in press)
- Soweid A. What’s new in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in 2007? IBS forum, December 2007.
- Makhoul NJ, Choueiri MB, Kattar MM, Soweid AM, Shamseddeen W, Estephan HC, Khalife J, Haddad A, Abi Rached A, Zalloua PA. Distribution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes among HCV infection risk groupsin Lebanon. J Clin Virol, 41(2):166-67, 2008.
- Mourad FH. Train the trainer workshop, Porto, April 2007. World Gastroenterology News 2007; 12 (2): 30-31.
- Jana G. Hashash, Lamya A. Atweh, Teddy Saliba, Zaher
Chakhachiro, Aghiad Al-Kutoubi, Ayman Tawil, and Kassem A. Barada.
Acute NSAID-Induced Transdermal Duodenitis and Extensive
Duodenal Ulceration. Clinical Therapeutics (in press)
- Jana Hashash, MD, Assaad Skoury, MD, Wael Shamseddeen,
MD, Kassem Barada, MD. Gross Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding in
Patients on Anticoagulant and/or Anti-platelet Therapy:
Endoscopic Findings, Management and Clinical Outcomes.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology (in press)
- Marie Merheb, M.D; Rose T. Daher, PhD; Mona Nasrallah,
M.D; Ramzi Sabra, M.D; Fuad N. Ziyadeh, M.D; and Kassem Barada,
M.D. Taurine Intestinal Absorption and Renal Excretion
Test in Diabetic Patients: a Pilot Study. Diabetes Care
(in press)
- Barada Kassem, Abdul-Baki H, ElHajj I, Hashash JG,
Green PH. Gastrointestinal bleeding in the setting of
anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy: a review of the
literature. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology (in
press)
- Barada Kassem, Georges Nemer, Ihab I. ElHajj, Johnny
Touma, Nadim Cortas, Rose-Mary Boustany and Julnar Usta. Early and
Severe Liver Disease Associated with Homozygosity for
Exon-7 Mutation, G691R, in Wilson’s Disease. Clinical
Genetics (in press)
- Barada Kassem, Mourad F, Sawwah S, Khoury C,
Safieh-Garabedian B, Nassar CF, Tawil A, Abdo J, Saadé NE. Up-regulation of
Nerve Growth Factor and Interleukin-10 in inflamed and
non-inflamed intestinal segments in rats with
experimental colitis. Cytokine, 2007 May 19; [Epub ahead
of print].
- Cecilio Azar, Assaad Soweid, Zeina Berro, Ziad MK
Salem, Fadi B Geara, Mireille Kattar, Jana G. Hashash,
Kassem Barada.
Duodenal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma
successfully treated by radiation therapy. Clinical
Lymphoma and Myeloma, 2007 May; 7(6):428-31.
- Barada K, Karowni W, Abdallah M, Shamseddine W, Sharara AI, Dakik HA. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes: Clinical Predictors and Prophylactic Role of Proton Pump Inhibitors. J Clin Gastroenterol 2008;42(4):368-72.
- Abdul-Baki H, ElHajj I, El-Zahabi LM, Azar C, Aoun E,
Zantout H, Nasreddine W, Ayyach B, Mourad FH,
Soweid A, Barada
Kassem, Sharara AI. Clinical epidemiology of
inflammatory bowel diseases in Lebanon.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases 2007, 13(4):475-80.
- Barada KA, Mourad FH, Sawah SI, Khoury C,
Safieh-Garabedian B, Nassar CF, Saadé NE. Localized
colonic inflammation increases cytokine levels in
distant small intestinal segments in the rat. Life
Sicences 2006 ; 79(21):2032-42.
- Mourad FH, Barada KA, Bou Rached NA, Khoury CI, Saade
NE, Nassar CF. Effect of experimental Colitis on Fluid
Absorption in Rat Jejunum: a Role for The Enteric
Nervous System, VIP And NO. American Journal of
Physiology 2006; 290(2):G262-8.
- Abdul-Baki H, Hashash JG, ElHajj II, Azar C, ElZahabi L, Skoury A,
Mourad FH, Barada,KA.,
Sharara AI. A Randomized Controlled Double-Blind Trial of the Adjunct Use of Tegaserod in Whole-or Split-Dose PEG-Electrolyte Solution for Colonoscopy Preparation. Gastrointest Endosc 2008 (in press)
- Hashash JG, Abdul-Baki H, Azar C, El Hajj II, ElZahabi L, Chaar HF,
Sharara AI. A Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Cross-Over Study of Flupenthixol + Melitracen in Functional Dyspepsia. Alim Pharmacol Ther 2008; 27:1148-55.
- El Hajj I, Sharara AI. Jejunojejunal intussusception caused by an
inflammatory fibroid polyp. Case report and review of the literature. J Med Liban 2007; 55:108-11.
- Ramia S, Sharara AI, El-Zaatari M, Ramlawi F, Mahfouz Z. Occult Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Lebanese Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Liver Disease. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2008: 27(3):217-21.
- El Hajj I, Hashash JG, Baz EM, Abdul-Baki H, Sharara AI. ABO blood
group and gastric cancer: rekindling an old fire? South Med J 2007; 100:726-7.
- Ramia S, El-Zaatari M, Sharara AI, Ramlawi F, Farhat B. Current
prevalence of hepatitis delta virus (HDV) infection and the range of HDV genotypes in Lebanon. Epidemiol Infect 2007; 135:959-62.
- ElHajj, II, Sharara AI. An unusual cause of jejunojejunal
intussusception. Dig Liver Dis 2007; 39:91.
- Sharara AI, Ramia S, Ramlawi F, Fares JE, Klayme S, Naman R.
Genotypes of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among positive Lebanese patients:
comparison of data with that from other Middle Eastern countries. Epidemiol Infect 2007; 135:427-32.
- Azar C, Khalifeh M, Al-Kutoubi AM, Sharara AI. Recurrent Massive
Hemorrhage from an Endoscopically-Inevident Isolated Rectal Varix. Dig Liver Dis 2006;38:851-3.
- Sharara AI, Aoun E, Abdul-Baki H, Munzer R, Sidani S, ElHajj I. A
randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of rifaximin in patients with abdominal bloating and flatulence. Am J Gastroenterol 2006; 101:326-33.
- Sharara AI, Abdul-Baki H, ElHajj I, Kreidieh N, Kfoury Baz EM.
Association of Gastroduodenal Disease Phenotype with ABO Blood Group and Virulence-Specific Helicobacter pylori Immunoserotypes. Dig Liver Dis 2006;38(11):829-33.
- Sharara AI, Yaghi C, Rassam P, Moucari R, Honein K, BouJaoude J, Slim
R, Noun R, Abdul-Baki H, Khalifeh M, Ramia S, Sayegh R. Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Lebanon: Etiology and Prognostic Factors Associated with Short-Term Survival. W J Gastroenterol 2006;12:3573-3580.
- Sharara AI, Chaar HF, Aoun E, Abdul-Baki H, Araj G, Kanj S. Efficacy
and Safety of Rabeprazole, Amoxicillin, and Gatifloxacin as Second-Line Treatment after Failure of Initial Helicobacter pylori Eradication.
Helicobacter 2006; 11:231-6.
- El-Hajj II, Salem ZM, Sharara AI. Secondary Colonic Luminal
Involvement by Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Dig Liver Dis 2006; 38(1):67-8.
- Otrock ZK, Sharara AI, Mahfouz RA, Taher AT. Compound heterozygosity
for factor V and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase mutations in a patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006;21(4): 782-3.
- Sharara AI, Azar C. The Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome: Endoscopic
Spectrum and Review of the Literature [letter] Gastrointest Endosc 2006; 4:739-40.
- Sharara AI, Aoun E, Koussa S, Inati A, Taher A. Treatment of acute
hepatitis C in a child with thalassemia major using weight-based peginterferon alpha-2b. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006;21:1221.
- Azar CR, Soweid AM (senior author). Inlet patch: the under-explored island. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. In press (2007). (Invited editorial)
- Jamali FR, Soweid AM, Dimassi H, Bailey C, Leroy J, Marescaux J.
Evaluating the degree of
difficulty of laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Archives of Surgery. In press (2007).
- Faraj W, Khalifeh M, Soweid AM, Habli N, Selmo F, Priest O, Jamali F.
Gastrobronchial
fistula following laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication. Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech.
In press (2007).
- Khayat A, Soweid AM, Kattar M, Tawil A, Matar G. Prevalence and clinical relevance of Helicobacter pylori cagA and vacA genes in Lebanese patients with gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries (JIDC). In press (2007).
- Ayyoub C, Skoury A, Abdul-Baki H, Nasr V, Soweid AM (senior author).
Lidocaine lollipop
as single agent anesthesia in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy, 66(4):786-93, 2007.
- Azar C, Jamali F, Abdul-Baki H, Soweid AM (senior author). Endosonographic-guided resection of a superficial gastric stromal tumor. Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 41(7):723-24, 2007.
- Jamali FR, Otrock ZK, Soweid AM, Al-Awar GN, Mahfouz RA, Haidar GR, Bazarbachi A. An overview of the pathogenesis and natural history of post-transplant T-cell lymphoma.
Leukemia and Lymphoma, 48(9):1780-84, 2007.
- Azar C, Jamali F, Tamim H, Abdul-Baki H, Soweid AM (senior author).
Prevalence of
endoscopically identified heterotopic gastric mucosa in the proximal
esophagus:
endoscopist dependent? Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 41(5):468-71, 2007.
- Jamali FR, Darwiche S, El-Kinge N, Tawil A, Soweid AM. Disease progression following Imatinib failure in gastrointestinal stromal tumors: role of surgical therapy. The Oncologist, 12(4):438-42, 2007.
- El-Zahabi LM, Jamali FR, El-Hajj II, Naja M, Salem ZM, Shamseddine A, El-Saghir N, Zaatari G, Geara F,
Soweid AM (senior author). The Value of endoscopic ultrasonography in predicting the response of low-grade gastric MALT lymphoma to helicobacter pylori eradication.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy,
65(1):89-96, 2007.
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