Paul Kröner

BACKGROUND: The majority of HCC patients within Milan criteria, compete with cirrhosis patients with high MELD for liver transplantation based on an exceptional score which is the calculated MELD at registration, 28 after six months of waiting, 31 after 1 year and thereafter capped at 34 after one…

BACKGROUND: To address the persistent ethnoracial and socioeconomic disparities in access to quality surgical cancer care, it is imperative to rigorously understand the role of clinician-level factors including clinician-to-clinician connectedness…

BACKGROUND: The 2021 ACG Guidelines suggested an infusion of intravenous (IV) erythromycin before endoscopy in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) as it improved gastric visualization during endoscopy and reduced in need for repeat endoscopy…

Glucagon Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonists exert their effect by inhibiting postprandial glucagon secretion, promoting glucose-dependent insulin secretion and mitigating food consumption by delaying gastric emptying…

Rapid weight loss following obesity surgery is a known risk factor for the development of cholelithiasis and, by extension, choledocholithiasis…