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Immune-Mediated Colitis From Dual Checkpoint Inhibitors., Nishanth Thalambedu, Yasir Khan, Qian Zhang, Shristi Khanal, Ammar Ashfaq Nov 2019

Immune-Mediated Colitis From Dual Checkpoint Inhibitors., Nishanth Thalambedu, Yasir Khan, Qian Zhang, Shristi Khanal, Ammar Ashfaq

Abington Jefferson Health Papers

Melanoma is a deadly disease with immunotherapy treatment options that emerged in the last few years and have changed the disease outcome. However, it is associated with immune-related toxic effects despite improving survival. We present the case of a 53-year-old woman who had two weeks of diarrhea after she was treated with dual immunotherapy agents for her advanced melanoma. The final workup revealed pancolitis, possibly due to immunotherapy adverse effects. Initial conservative treatment, unfortunately, did not lead to a clinical improvement until a steroid was introduced. We are reporting this case to alert our fellow physicians about the immune-mediated toxicities …


A Bibliometric Analysis Of The Top 100 Cited Articles On Hepatic Magnetic Resonance Imaging., Waqas Ullah, Hafez Mohammad A. Abdullah, Ejaz Ahmad, Mamoon Ur Rashid, Muhammad Bashir, Asad Ur Rahman, Asrar Ahmad, Abu Hurairah Jun 2018

A Bibliometric Analysis Of The Top 100 Cited Articles On Hepatic Magnetic Resonance Imaging., Waqas Ullah, Hafez Mohammad A. Abdullah, Ejaz Ahmad, Mamoon Ur Rashid, Muhammad Bashir, Asad Ur Rahman, Asrar Ahmad, Abu Hurairah

Abington Jefferson Health Papers

The purpose of this study is to guide the readers to the impact of the articles published on hepatic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We searched Scopus using 10 different search terms for hepatic MRI. The selected studies were thoroughly reviewed by two independent authors and any disagreement was sorted out by mutual consensus. The list of articles and journals was downloaded into an excel spreadsheet. Only the top 100 cited articles were selected by mutual consensus among all the authors. These articles were further read in the full-text form and were further categorized into subgroups. Three authors independently reviewed the …