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James Ostroff, MD

Education
M.D., 1977 - School of Medicine, Cornell University
Residency, - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Websites
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Publications
  1. Lee AY, Lehrman ED, Perito ER, Kerlan RK, Kohi MP, Kolli KP, Taylor AG, Ostroff JW, Kang SM, Roberts JP, Rhee S, Rosenthal P, Fidelman N. Non-operative management of biliary complications after Liver Transplantation in pediatric patients: A 30-year experience. Pediatric transplantation 2021. PMID: 33951255


  2. Thiruvengadam NR, Miranda J, Kim C, Behr S, Corvera C, Dai SC, Kirkwood K, Harris HW, Hirose K, Nakakura E, Ostroff JW, Kochman ML, Arain MA. Burden of Ionizing Radiation in the Diagnosis and Management of Necrotizing Pancreatitis. Clinical and translational gastroenterology 2021. PMID: 33904509


  3. Kidambi TD, Bagatelos KC, Ostroff JW. The Answer Is in the Ampulla. Gastroenterology 2018. PMID: 29653146


  4. Kidambi TD, Schmajuk G, Gross AJ, Ostroff JW, Terdiman JP, Lee JK. Endoscopy is of low yield in the identification of gastrointestinal neoplasia in patients with dermatomyositis: A cross-sectional study. World journal of gastroenterology 2017. PMID: 28765700


  5. Usatin D, Fernandes M, Allen IE, Perito ER, Ostroff J, Heyman MB. Reply. The Journal of pediatrics 2017. PMID: 28365024


  6. Usatin D, Fernandes M, Allen IE, Perito ER, Ostroff J, Heyman MB. Complications of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography in Pediatric Patients; A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis. The Journal of pediatrics 2016. PMID: 27663215


  7. Ho EY, George V, McCracken M, Ostroff JW. A 13 year-old boy with post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disorder presenting with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding: a case report. F1000Research 2014. PMID: 25254098


  8. Lyo V, Cattaruzza F, Kim TN, Walker AW, Paulick M, Cox D, Cloyd J, Buxbaum J, Ostroff J, Bogyo M, Grady EF, Bunnett NW, Kirkwood KS. Active cathepsins B, L, and S in murine and human pancreatitis. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology 2012. PMID: 22899821


  9. Buxbaum JL, Biggins SW, Bagatelos KC, Inadomi JM, Ostroff JW. Inoperable pancreatic cancer patients who have prolonged survival exhibit an increased risk of cholangitis. JOP : Journal of the pancreas 2011. PMID: 21737900


  10. Buxbaum JL, Biggins SW, Bagatelos KC, Ostroff JW. Predictors of endoscopic treatment outcomes in the management of biliary problems after liver transplantation at a high-volume academic center. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2010. PMID: 21074761


  11. Ostroff JW. Management of biliary complications in the liver transplant patient. Gastroenterology & hepatology 2010. PMID: 20567581


  12. Ostroff JW. Pain and chronic pancreatitis: are we really ready for metal in the pancreatic duct? Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2008. PMID: 19028227


  13. Sweet MP, Nipomnick I, Gasper WJ, Bagatelos K, Ostroff JW, Fisichella PM, Way LW, Patti MG. The outcome of laparoscopic Heller myotomy for achalasia is not influenced by the degree of esophageal dilatation. Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract 2007. PMID: 17710504


  14. Kitazono MT, Qayyum A, Yeh BM, Chard PS, Ostroff JW, Coakley FV. Magnetic resonance cholangiography of biliary strictures after liver transplantation: a prospective double-blind study. Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI 2007. PMID: 17520726


  15. Patti MG, Gorodner MV, Galvani C, Tedesco P, Fisichella PM, Ostroff JW, Bagatelos KC, Way LW. Spectrum of esophageal motility disorders: implications for diagnosis and treatment. Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2005. PMID: 15897439


  16. Velayos FS, Williamson A, Sousa KH, Lung E, Bostrom A, Weber EJ, Ostroff JW, Terdiman JP. Early predictors of severe lower gastrointestinal bleeding and adverse outcomes: a prospective study. Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association 2004. PMID: 15181617


  17. Gugig R, Ostroff J, Chen YY, Harrison M, Heyman MB. Gastric cystic duplication: a rare cause of recurrent pancreatitis in children. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 2004. PMID: 15044909


  18. Ostroff JW. Endoscopic and radiologic management of pancreatic and biliary tract diseases. Seminars in gastrointestinal disease 2003. PMID: 14719772


  19. Ostroff JW. Post-transplant biliary problems. Gastrointestinal endoscopy clinics of North America 2001. PMID: 11175980


  20. Terdiman JP, Ostroff JW. Gastrointestinal bleeding in the hospitalized patient: a case-control study to assess risk factors, causes, and outcome. The American journal of medicine 1998. PMID: 9576408


  21. Corley DA, Lindeman N, Ostroff JW. Survival with early diagnosis of invasive gastric mucormycosis in a heart transplant patient. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 1997. PMID: 9402122


  22. Terdiman JP, Ostroff JW. Risk of persistent or recurrent and intractable upper gastrointestinal bleeding in the era of therapeutic endoscopy. The American journal of gastroenterology 1997. PMID: 9382041


  23. Cello JP, Ring EJ, Olcott EW, Koch J, Gordon R, Sandhu J, Morgan DR, Ostroff JW, Rockey DC, Bacchetti P, LaBerge J, Lake JR, Somberg K, Doherty C, Davila M, McQuaid K, Wall SD. Endoscopic sclerotherapy compared with percutaneous transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt after initial sclerotherapy in patients with acute variceal hemorrhage. A randomized, controlled trial. Annals of internal medicine 1997. PMID: 9163286


  24. Lipson SA, Perr HA, Koerper MA, Ostroff JW, Snyder JD, Goldstein RB. Intramural duodenal hematoma after endoscopic biopsy in leukemic patients. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 1996. PMID: 8934177


  25. Terdiman JP, Linker CA, Ries CA, Damon LE, Rugo HS, Ostroff JW. The role of endoscopic evaluation in patients with suspected intestinal graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic bone-marrow transplantation. Endoscopy 1996. PMID: 8934085


  26. Yee HF, Brown RS, Ostroff JW. Fatal Clostridium difficile enteritis after total abdominal colectomy. Journal of clinical gastroenterology 1996. PMID: 8776096


  27. Pellegrini CA, Leichter R, Patti M, Somberg K, Ostroff JW, Way L. Thoracoscopic esophageal myotomy in the treatment of achalasia. The Annals of thoracic surgery 1993. PMID: 8379770


  28. Jowell PS, Cotton PB, Huibregtse K, France HG, Erickson RV, Aas J, Ostroff JW, Gordon RL. Delivery catheter entrapment during deployment of expandable metal stents. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 1993. PMID: 7684349


  29. Frye JW, Venook AP, Ostroff JW, Mulvihill SJ, Warren RS, Pellegrini CA, Ring EJ, Stagg RJ. Hepatic intra-arterial methylene blue injection during endoscopy: a method of detecting gastroduodenal misperfusion in patients receiving hepatic intra-arterial chemotherapy via an implanted pump. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 1992. PMID: 1612381


  30. Veereman Wauters G, Ferrell L, Ostroff JW, Heyman MB. Hyperplastic gastric polyps associated with persistent Helicobacter pylori infection and active gastritis. The American journal of gastroenterology 1990. PMID: 2220735


  31. Ostroff JW, Roberts JP, Gordon RL, Ring EJ, Ascher NL. The management of T tube leaks in orthotopic liver transplant recipients with endoscopically placed nasobiliary catheters. Transplantation 1990. PMID: 2336710


  32. Wilcox CM, Ostroff JW. Colonoscopic diagnosis of paraprosthetic-enteric fistula. Gastrointestinal endoscopy 1990. PMID: 2335295


  33. Eisendrath SJ, Ostroff JW. Ranitidine-associated delirium. Psychosomatics 1990. PMID: 2300661


  34. Yanda RJ, Ostroff JW, Ashbaugh CD, Guis MS, Goldberg HI. Zollinger-Ellison syndrome in a patient with normal screening gastrin level. Digestive diseases and sciences 1989. PMID: 2598759


  35. Chespak LW, Ring EJ, Shapiro HA, Gordon RL, Ostroff JW. Multidisciplinary approach to complex endoscopic biliary intervention. Radiology 1989. PMID: 2916069


  36. Eisendrath SJ, Way LW, Ostroff JW, Johanson CA. Identification of psychogenic abdominal pain. Psychosomatics 1986. PMID: 3774944


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