Gastroneterology, Liver Diseases and Transplantation
Gastroenterology
Dr. Jacob Korula, MD
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Jacob Korula practices Gastroenterology. He researched medicine at Christian Medical College Vellore. He has 2 awards "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Super Doctor". Doctor Jacob Korula, MD is also published. He has 60 publications published. The lastest publication: "Analysis of long-term endoscopic surveillance during follow-up after variceal sclerotherapy from a 13-year experience.' Jacob Korula accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Health care cost control and views of physicians.
- ACP Journal Club. Early use of transjugular intrahepatic portoSystemic shunts improved outcomes in patients with cirrhosis and variceal bleeding.
- ACP Journal Club. Immediate listing for liver transplantation did not differ from usual care for overall survival in stage B alcoholic Cirrhosis.
- Review: endoscopic plus drug therapy prevents rebleeding more than either one alone in Cirrhosis with bleeding esophageal varices.
- Review: primary prophylaxis with banding ligation or beta-blockers does not differ for mortality in Esophageal varices.
- Oral V2 receptor antagonist (RWJ-351647) in patients with Cirrhosis and ascites: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, single ascending dose study.
- A nonselective beta-blocker did not prevent gastroesophageal varices in Cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
- Review: somatostatin and its analogues do not reduce mortality in acute bleeding Esophageal varices.
- Review: lactulose or lactitol may improve hepatic encephalopathy but may be less effective than antibiotics.
- Platelet count/spleen diameter ratio predicted the presence of esophageal varices in liver Cirrhosis.
- Review: Somatostatin analogues reduce blood products used in acute bleeding Esophageal varices but do not reduce mortality.
- Dietary fiber supplementation with psyllium or gum arabic reduced fecal incontinence in community-living adults.
- Generalized myokymia as a unique association with gluten-sensitive enteropathy.
- Patients with ascites have higher variceal pressure and wall tension than patients without ascites.
- Peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis. A possible explanation for an unusual laparoscopic appearance.
- Low albumin gradient ascites complicating severe pseudomembranous colitis.
- Analysis of long-term endoscopic surveillance during follow-up after variceal sclerotherapy from a 13-year experience.
- Naloxone for intractable pruritus?
- Diagnostic features of tuberculous peritonitis in the absence and presence of chronic liver Disease: a case control study.
- Recurrent bleeding from ileal varices treated by transjugular intrahepatic portoSystemic shunt: value of Doppler ultrasonography in diagnosis and follow-up.
- Portal vein thrombosis following endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy. Prospective controlled comparison in patients with Cirrhosis.
- Variceal Bleeding. What are the treatment options?
- Variceal Bleeding. Can it be prevented?
- Tuberculous peritonitis complicating corticosteroid therapy for acute alcoholic Hepatitis.
- Fulminant reactivation of Hepatitis B due to envelope protein mutant that escaped detection by monoclonal HBsAg ELISA.
- Endoscopic therapy of bleeding Varices: do studies in animal models give us the answers we need?
- Subclinical hepatic encephalopathy: proton MR spectroscopic abnormalities.
- Peritoneal Kaposi's sarcoma: a cause of ascites in acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome.
- Acute variceal Bleeding: somatostatin or sclerotherapy?
- Investigative studies in portal hypertension.
- Endoscopic sclerotherapy as compared with endoscopic ligation for bleeding Esophageal varices.
- Hepatocellular carcinoma coexisting with hepatic adenoma. Incidental discovery after long-term oral contraceptive use.
- The effects of chronic endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy on portal pressure in cirrhotics.
- Portal vein thrombosis complicating endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy. Convincing further evidence.
- The effect of oral nitroglycerin on portal blood velocity as measured by ultrasonic Doppler. A double blind, placebo controlled study.
- A simple and inexpensive method of removal or replacement of gastrostomy tubes.
- Demonstration of two distinct subsets of gastric Varices. Observations during a seven-year study of endoscopic sclerotherapy.
- Portal venous System after portoSystemic shunts or endoscopic sclerotherapy: evaluation with Doppler sonography.
- Cardiorespiratory effects of endoscopic Esophageal variceal sclerotherapy.
- Prophylactic sclerotherapy.
- Frequent endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy increases risk of complications. Prospective randomized controlled study of two treatment schedules.
- A review of donor alanine aminotransferase testing. Implications for the blood donor and practitioner.
- Digoxin-like immunoreactive substances in chronic liver Disease.
- Perforation of Esophagus after endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy. Incidence and clues to pathogenesis.
- Fatal hemorrhage from an arterio-portal-peritoneal fistula after percutaneous liver biopsy.
- Failure of ketoconazole as anti-androgen therapy in nonresectable primary hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy.
- Effects of sodium tetradecyl sulfate endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy on the Esophagus. A prospective clinical and histopathologic study.
- Necrotizing fasciitis and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy.
- Atypical diffuse angiosarcoma of the liver.
- Effect of Esophageal variceal sclerotherapy (EVS) on lung function. A prospective controlled study.
- Outpatient Esophageal variceal sclerotherapy: safe and cost-effective. A prospective study.
- Acute Esophageal variceal sclerotherapy. Results of a prospective randomized controlled trial.
- Pleural effusions following endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy.
- Pseudotumor of the Esophagus: an unusual complication of esophageal variceal sclerotherapy.
- Extrahepatic tuberculous pseudotumour.
- A prospective, randomized controlled trial of chronic Esophageal variceal sclerotherapy.
- Acute respiratory failure and sclerotherapy.
- A case of familial spinocerebellar degeneration with hypobetalipoproteinemia.
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Endoscopy (Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine)
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography)
- Fecal Impaction Removal
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anemia
- Barrett's Esophagus
- Benign Neoplasm of the Digestive System
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Doctors Specialties
- Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Power Select HMO
- Blue Card PPO
- CaliforniaCare HMO
- Advantage Preferred DirectAccess Plus PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
- Pathway X Direct Access PPO
- Pathway X Guided Access HMO
- Pathway X Tiered Direct Access
- Select Plus HMO
- Select PPO
- Access Plus Savenet
- Basic Exclusive PPO for Small Business
- Basic PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- LocalPlus
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Blue & Gold HMO
- Covered California - Bronze PPO
- Employer Group HMO
- Health Net PPO
- Individual and Family PPO
- SmartCare HMO
- WholeCare Network HMO
- Humana
- Medicare MCR
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- PacifiCare HMO
- United Healthcare
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
Education
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University of Southern California - LAC+USC Medical Center -
Christian Medical College Vellore
Hospital
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Huntington Memorial Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1295732568 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | KORULA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | JACOB | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 910079278 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Gastroenterology | |
| Total Claim Count | 1632.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 74.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 4.53 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1295732568 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | KORULA |
| First Name Of The Provider | JACOB |
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