Associate Professor, Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Gastroenterology
Dr. Nizar N. Zein, MD
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Nizar N. Zein, MD is an expert in the field of Gastroenterology. He received awards:"CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Nizar Zein is a published doctor and has 100 publications published. The lastest was: 'Hepatitis C and diabetes mellitus: an ongoing controversy.' He accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Predictors of poor outcome among older liver transplant recipients.
- Adenoma detection at colonoscopy by polypectomy in withdrawal only versus both insertion and withdrawal: a randomized controlled trial.
- Impact of Pretransplant Rifaximin Therapy on Early Post-Liver Transplant Infections.
- The successful use of telaprevir to treat Hepatitis C recurrence after liver transplantation in an HIV co-infected patient.
- The Breathprints in Patients with Liver Disease Identify Novel Breath Biomarkers in Alcoholic Hepatitis.
- 3-dimentional (3D) print of liver for preoperative planning in live donor liver transplantation.
- Hepatitis C treatment with triple therapy in a patient with hemophilia A.
- Recurrent upper gastroIntestinal bleeding masquerading as gastric variceal bleeding on endoscopy after liver transplantation.
- Diagnosis of Celiac Disease in Adults Based on Serology Test Results, Without Small-Bowel Biopsy.
- Role of ceramides in nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease.
- A 25-year-old man with very high alkaline phosphatase.
- Mean platelet volume as a marker of increased cardiovascular risk in patients with nonalcoholic steatoHepatitis.
- Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio: a new marker for predicting steatohepatitis and fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease.
- Hepatitis B immunity and response to booster vaccination in children with inflammatory bowel Disease treated with infliximab.
- Combined Liver-Kidney Transplants: Allosensitization and Recipient Outcomes.
- Risk of colonic neoplasia after liver transplantation for primary sclerosing cholangitis.
- Spur cell Anemia as a cause of unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia after liver transplantation and its resolution after retransplantation.
- An apoptosis panel for nonalcoholic steatoHepatitis diagnosis.
- Incidence and risk factors of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with primary Biliary cirrhosis.
- The inflamed liver and atherosclerosis: a link between histologic severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease and increased cardiovascular risk.
- The incidence and risk factors of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with nonalcoholic steatoHepatitis.
- Monitoring peripheral blood CD4+ adenosine triphosphate activity in recurrent Hepatitis C and its correlation to fibrosis progression.
- Diabetes mellitus is associated with impaired response to antiviral therapy in chronic Hepatitis C infection.
- Lack of killer immunoglobulin-like receptor 2DS2 (KIR2DS2) and KIR2DL2 is associated with poor responses to therapy of recurrent Hepatitis C virus in liver transplant ...
- Recognizing and treating cutaneous signs of liver Disease.
- Cytokeratin-18 fragment levels as noninvasive biomarkers for nonalcoholic steatoHepatitis: a multicenter validation study.
- A 35-year-old Asian man with jaundice and markedly high aminotransferase levels.
- Role of interleukin-6 in human nonalcoholic steatoHepatitis. Response to Dogru et al.
- The significance of metabolic syndrome in the setting of recurrent Hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
- Ascitic fluid lactoferrin for diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.
- Increased hepatic and circulating interleukin-6 levels in human nonalcoholic steatoHepatitis.
- Clinical significance of metabolic syndrome in the setting of chronic Hepatitis C virus infection.
- Cytokines in the pathogenesis of fatty liver and Disease progression to steatohepatitis: implications for treatment.
- Recurrent Hepatitis C after liver transplantation: on-treatment prediction of response to peginterferon/ribavirin therapy.
- Mission poorly accomplished: the protective role of natural killer cells in recurrent Hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
- Hepatitis C in children: recent advances.
- Outcomes after lung transplantation in patients with chronic Hepatitis C virus infection.
- Predictors and noninvasive identification of severe liver fibrosis in patients with chronic Hepatitis C.
- Steatosis in Hepatitis C: the missing link to metabolic abnormalities?
- In vivo assessment of liver cell apoptosis as a novel biomarker of Disease severity in nonalcoholic fatty liver Disease.
- Hepatitis C infection: a Systemic disease with extrahepatic manifestations.
- The liver in pregnancy: disease vs Benign changes.
- Two patients with acute liver injury associated with use of the herbal weight-loss supplement hydroxycut.
- Chronic Hepatitis C and type II diabetes mellitus: a prospective cross-sectional study.
- Predicting outcome after cardiac surgery in patients with Cirrhosis: a comparison of Child-Pugh and MELD scores.
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis: recent data on incidence and treatment.
- Ethnic differences in polymorphisms of tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interleukin-10, and transforming growth factor-beta1 genes in patients with chronic Hepatitis C vir...
- Clinical significance of hepatic iron deposition and serum iron values in patients with chronic Hepatitis C infection.
- Comparison of the VERSANT HCV RNA qualitative assay (transcription-mediated amplification) and the COBAS AMPLICOR Hepatitis C virus test, version 2.0, in patients unde...
- Subclinical reactivation of Hepatitis B virus in liver transplant recipients with past exposure.
- The epidemiology and natural history of Hepatitis C virus infection.
- Regression of hepatic fibrosis and Cirrhosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with interferon-based therapy.
- Chronic renal dysfunction late after liver transplantation.
- Impact of untreated portal vein thrombosis on pre and post liver transplant outcomes in Cirrhosis.
- Monitoring serial CD4⺠T-cell function after liver transplantation can be used to predict hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence.
- Sofosbuvir and Simeprevir for the Treatment of Recurrent Hepatitis C with Fibrosing Cholestatic Hepatitis after Liver Transplantation.
- Cumulative risk of cardiovascular events after orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Polymorphisms in the interleukin-10, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and transforming growth factor-beta1 genes in chronic Hepatitis C patients treated with interferon an...
- Histological abnormalities of the small bowel mucosa in Cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
- Etanercept as an adjuvant to interferon and ribavirin in treatment-naive patients with chronic Hepatitis C virus infection: a phase 2 randomized, double-blind, placebo...
- Advances in therapy for Hepatitis C infection.
- GB virus-C infection in type 1 autoimmune Hepatitis.
- Insulin-like growth factor System abnormalities in hepatitis C-associated osteosclerosis. Potential insights into increasing bone mass in adults.
- Treatment of eosinophilic Esophagitis with inhaled corticosteroids.
- Genotype-dependent serologic reactivities in patients infected with Hepatitis C virus in the United States.
- Hepatitis C virus genotypes and Hepatitis G virus in hemodialysis patients from Syria: identification of two novel Hepatitis C virus subtypes.
- Endoscopic intralesional steroid injections in the management of refractory Esophageal strictures.
- Interferon therapy in Hepatitis C.
- Hepatitis C genotypes: current trends and future implications.
- Recurrent vomiting following Harrington rod instrumentation of the spine.
- Prevalence and outcome of Hepatitis C infection among heart transplant recipients.
- Hepatitis C virus genotypes in the United States: epidemiology, pathogenicity, and response to interferon therapy. Collaborative Study Group.
- Increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in patients infected with Hepatitis C genotype 1b.
- Indeterminate results of the second-generation Hepatitis C virus (HCV) recombinant immunoblot assay: significance of high-level c22-3 reactivity and influence of HCV g...
- Relationship between Hepatitis C genotype and severity of recurrent Hepatitis C after liver transplantation.
- Vertical transmission of Hepatitis C: to screen or not to screen.
- Hepatitis C genotypes in liver transplant recipients: distribution and 1-year follow-up.
- Hepatitis C and diabetes mellitus: an ongoing controversy.
- Interferons in the management of viral Hepatitis.
- No evidence of Hepatitis G virus in fulminant hepatic failure in children.
- Viral genotypes as determinants of autoimmune expression in chronic Hepatitis C.
- Prevalence and clinical significance of TT virus coinfection in patients with chronic Hepatitis C treated with interferon.
- Humoral immunity in acute and chronic Hepatitis C infection.
- Clinical significance of TT virus infection in patients with chronic Hepatitis C.
- Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in patients with end-stage liver Cirrhosis due to hepatitis C, alcohol, or cholestatic disease.
- Prevalence of TT virus infection in blood donors with elevated ALT in the absence of known Hepatitis markers.
- Hepatitis A antibodies in liver transplant recipients: evidence for loss of immunity posttransplantation.
- Hepatitis C virus infection and lymphoproliferative disorders after liver transplantation.
- Clinical significance of Hepatitis C virus genotypes.
- Nature and behavior of serum cytokines in type 1 autoimmune Hepatitis.
- TT virus infection: an emerging pathogen in search of its identity.
- Analytic modeling to predict the outcome of chronic Hepatitis C infection: a useful clinical tool or an unfair representation of natural history?
- Tumor necrosis factor gene promoter polymorphism and recurrent Hepatitis C after liver transplantation: the missing link to pathogenesis or a casual association?
- What do we need to know about non-A-to-E viral Hepatitis?
- Double-dose accelerated hepatitis B vaccine in patients with end-stage liver Disease.
- Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea and colitis.
- Safety and efficacy of Hepatitis A vaccination in liver transplantation recipients.
- Advances in the molecular diagnosis of Hepatitis C and their clinical implications.
- Sonic hedgehog signaling in hepatocellular carcinoma: A pilot study.
Schools
University Of Tishreen Faculty Of Medicine
Med College Ohio
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Endoscopy (Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine)
- ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography)
- Liver Biopsy
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anemia
- Benign Neoplasm of the Digestive System
- Biliary Atresia
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Doctors Specialties
- Gastroenterology
- Pediatric Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education -
University of Tichreen Faculty of Medicine
Hospital
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Cleveland Clinic
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1407808967 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | ZEIN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | NIZAR | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 441312139 | |
| NPPES Provider State | OH | |
| Specialty Description | Gastroenterology | |
| Total Claim Count | 391.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1407808967 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | ZEIN |
| First Name Of The Provider | NIZAR |
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