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Ami Schattner, Professor

Hebrew University Hadassah
Verified email at mail.huji.ac.il
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Increased risk of type 2 diabetes in noncirrhotic patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection

…, R Schihmanter, A Zifroni, G Fenakel, A Schattner - Mayo Clinic …, 2000 - Elsevier
Objectives To investigate whether patients with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection
without evidence of cirrhosis have an increased risk of diabetes mellitus (DM) and to evaluate …

Consequence or coincidence?: The occurrence, pathogenesis and significance of autoimmune manifestations after viral vaccines

A Schattner - Vaccine, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND:: Viruses and virus-induced lymphokines may have an important role in the
pathogenesis of autoimmunity (Schattner A. Clin Immunol Immunopathol; 1994). The …

Tumor necrosis factor–α–induced insulin resistance may mediate the hepatitis C virus–diabetes association

…, A Sandler, N Haran, Y Ashur, A Schattner - Official journal of the …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: Among patients infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), 13–33% develop type
2 diabetes mellitus (DM). The mechanism for this remains unclear. Because tumor necrosis …

Early readmissions to the department of medicine as a screening tool for monitoring quality of care problems

U Balla, S Malnick, A Schattner - Medicine, 2008 - journals.lww.com
With growing awareness of medical fallibility, researchers need to develop tools to identify
and study medical mistakes. We examined the utility of hospital readmissions for this purpose …

Utility of clinical examination in the diagnosis of emergency department patients admitted to the department of medicine of an academic hospital

…, J Friedman, N Kozak, A Schattner - Archives of internal …, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Methods. All consecutive patients newly admitted from the emergency department (ED) to 1
academic department of medicine over 53 days were prospectively included in the study. …

[HTML][HTML] Good physicians from the perspective of their patients

A Schattner, D Rudin, N Jellin - BMC health services research, 2004 - Springer
Background It is not currently known what is the patient's viewpoint of a "good" physician.
We set out to define patient's priorities regarding different physician's attributes in 3 domains …

[HTML][HTML] Information and shared decision-making are top patients' priorities

A Schattner, A Bronstein, N Jellin - BMC Health Services Research, 2006 - Springer
Background The profound changes in medical care and the recent stress on a patient-centered
approach mandate evaluation of current patient priorities. Methods Hospitalized and …

[HTML][HTML] Acute splenic infarction at an academic general hospital over 10 years: presentation, etiology, and outcome

A Schattner, M Adi, E Kitroser, A Klepfish - Medicine, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… Correspondence: Ami Schattner, Department of Medicine, Kaplan Medical Center, POB 1,
Rehovot 76100 and Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel (e-mail …

Enhancing the action of rituximab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia by adding fresh frozen plasma: complement/rituximab interactions & clinical results in refractory CLL

…, L Gilles, K Ioannis, R Eliezer, S Ami - Annals of the New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Many patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) develop progressive treatment‐resistant
disease. Rituximab (RTX), a monoclonal antibody targeting CD20 on B lymphocytes …

Bacterial arthritis due to beta-hemolytic streptococci of serogroups A, B, C, F, and G: analysis of 23 cases and a review of the literature

A Schattner, KL Vosti - Medicine, 1998 - journals.lww.com
Abbreviations used in this article: BHS, beta-hemolytic streptococcus; DIC, disseminated
intravascular coagulation; GAS, group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus; GBS, group B beta-…