Scholars@Duke
Richard Kevin Wood Jr.

Richard Kevin Wood Jr.

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Gastroenterology
Duke Box 3662, Durham, NC 27710
03115 Hospital South, Box 3913, Durham, NC 27710
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Selected Publications

Acid exposure time is sensitive for detecting gastroesophageal reflux disease and is associated with long-term survival after lung transplant.

Journal Article Dis Esophagus · July 27, 2023 Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is common in patients who have undergone lung transplantation and is associated with poorer outcomes, but guidelines are lacking to direct management strategies in this population. We assessed the diagnostic yield of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Utilization Trends and Volume-outcomes Relationship of Endoscopic Resection for Early Stage Esophageal Cancer.

Conference Ann Surg · January 1, 2023 OBJECTIVES: We describe utilization trends and center volume-outcomes relationship of ER of early stage esophageal cancer using a large hospitalbased registry. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: ER is increasingly accepted as the preferred treatment for early sta ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patient, Physician, and Procedure Characteristics Are Independently Predictive of Polyp Detection Rates in Clinical Practice.

Journal Article Dig Dis Sci · August 2021 BACKGROUND: Variability in colon polyp detection impacts patient outcomes. However, the relative influence of physician, patient, and procedure-specific factors on polyp detection is unclear. Therefore, determining how these factors contribute to adenoma a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Terminal ileum intubation is not associated with colonoscopy quality measures.

Journal Article J Gastroenterol Hepatol · September 2020 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Intubation of the terminal ileum (TI) demonstrates a complete colonoscopy, but its clinical value during screening exams is unknown. We aimed to determine whether TI intubation during screening colonoscopy is associated with colonoscopy ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Esophageal contractility increases and gastroesophageal reflux does not worsen after lung transplantation.

Conference Dis Esophagus · December 13, 2019 Gastroesophageal reflux and esophageal dysmotility are common in patients with advanced lung disease and are associated with allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation. The effect of transplantation on reflux and esophageal motility is unclear. The a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) proctocolitis mimicking rectal lymphoma.

Journal Article Radiol Case Rep · December 2018 Lymphogranuloma venereum is a sexually transmitted infection caused by serotypes L1-3 of Chlamydia trachomatis and may present as hemorrhagic proctocolitis. The diagnosis of an active infection is difficult to establish, as confirmatory testing can be unre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Gastroesophageal reflux symptoms are not sufficient to guide esophageal function testing in lung transplant candidates.

Journal Article Dis Esophagus · May 1, 2018 Gastroesophageal reflux disease and esophageal dysmotility are prevalent in patients with advanced lung disease and are associated with graft dysfunction following lung transplantation. As a result, many transplant centers perform esophageal function testi ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Esophageal Dysmotility, Gastro-esophageal Reflux Disease, and Lung Transplantation: What Is the Evidence?

Journal Article Curr Gastroenterol Rep · December 2015 Lung transplantation is an effective and life-prolonging therapy for patients with advanced lung disease (ALD). However, long-term patient survival following lung transplantation is primarily limited by development of an inflammatory and fibrotic process i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Endoscopic aspects in diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease and motility disorders: Bravo, capsule, and functional lumen imaging probe

Journal Article Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy · January 1, 2014 Catheter-based testing remains the current standard of practice for the diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease and esophageal motility abnormalities. Ambulatory pH testing and esophageal manometry have been in use for the past 40 years, but with the ... Full text Cite

Gastroesophageal reflux and altered motility in lung transplant rejection.

Journal Article Neurogastroenterol Motil · August 2010 BACKGROUND: Lung transplantation has become an effective therapeutic option for selected patients with end stage lung disease. Long-term survival is limited by chronic rejection manifest as bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS). The aspiration of gastric ... Full text Link to item Cite

Barrett's esophagus in 2008: an update.

Journal Article Keio J Med · September 2008 With the rising incidence and overall poor prognosis of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) there is great interest in furthering our understanding of Barrett's esophagus, the precursor lesion for most cases of EA. The best available evidence from true populati ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of intraoperative hypotension and pulmonary hypertension with adverse outcomes after orthotopic liver transplantation.

Journal Article J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · December 2003 BACKGROUND: Various preoperative, surgical, and postoperative markers of impaired outcome after orthotopic liver transplantation have been reported, but the influence of intraoperative hemodynamic aberrations has not been thoroughly investigated. SETTING: ... Full text Link to item Cite

Arterial blood pressure and heart rate discrepancies between handwritten and computerized anesthesia records.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · September 2000 UNLABELLED: Previous publications suggest that handwritten anesthesia records are less accurate when compared with computer-generated records, but these studies were limited by small sample size, unblinded study design, and unpaired statistical comparisons ... Full text Link to item Cite