Bruce Runyon, MD Clinical Professor, Medicine School of Medicine

Presentations 

  Research Presentations -- National

• Sheer TA, Joo E, Runyon BA. "Usefulness of Pro-Brain-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Distinguishing Ascites Due to Cirrhosis Ascites Due to Heart Failure." Loma Linda University Annual Postgraduate Convention. Loma Linda, California ( 3/2007 )

• Runyon BA. "Hepatitis Spectrum." Continuing Education Conference. Indio, California ( 1/2007 )

• Runyon BA. "Hepatorenal Syndrome." American Society of Nephrology's Annual Meeting, Critical Care Nephrology. San Diego, California ( 11/2006 )

• Wijeratne R, Runyon BA, Govindarajan S. "Discrepancies between clinical and autopsy diagnoses and the signifance of the difference to resident education." All-California Meeting of the American College of Physicians. Monterey, California ( 11/2006 )

• Runyon BA, Gines P. "Early Morning Workshop: Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis." American Association for the Study of Livers Diseases 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachussetts ( 10/2006 )

• Runyon BA. "Early Morning Workshop: Ascites and Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis." American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases 57th Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachussetts ( 10/2006 )

• Sheer TA, Joo E, Runyon BA. "Usefulness of Pro-Brain-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Distinguishing Ascites Due to Cirrhosis Ascites Due to Heart Failure." 57th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Boston, Massachusetts ( 10/2006 )

• Runyon BA. "Hepatorenal Syndrome." Nephrology Regional Grand Rounds. Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California ( 9/2006 )

• Runyon BA. "Ascites and Hepatorenal Syndrome." American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases First Review Course for the American Board of Internal Medicine's New Transplant Hepatology Certificate of Advanced Qualification. Chicago, Illinois ( 9/2006 )

• Runyon BA. "Outpatient Management of Cirrhosis." Primary Care Lecture Series. Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California ( 8/2006 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Ascites and SBP." Digestive Diseases Update, University of Mississippi School of Medicine. Jackson, Mississippi ( 4/2006 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Deep Jaundice, Renal Failure and Cellulitis: Case Discussion." Rancho Los Amigos Medical Center Grand Rounds. Downey, California ( 3/2006 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Taking the Mystery Out of Viral Hepatitis Serologies." Primary Care Lecture Series, Harbor-UCLA. Torrance, California ( 1/2006 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Complications of Cirrhosis." Arrowhead Regional Medical Center Grand Rounds. Colton, California ( 1/2006 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Portal Hypertension." Southern California Society of Gastroenterology Post-AASLD Review Course. Laguna Beach, California ( 12/2005 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Management of Ascites." American College of Physicians US Navy Chapter Scientific Meeting. ( 10/2005 )

• Bruce A. Runyon, MD. "Outpatient Management of Cirrhosis." Primary Care Lecture Series, Harbor-UCLA. Torrance, California ( 10/2005 )

  Poster Presentation

• Avanesyan A, Runyon BA.  Utilization of baclofen in maintenance of alcohol abstinence in patients with alcoholic hepaittis in a real-life clinical setting.  61st Annual Meeting fo the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston, Mass, October 2010 ( 10/2010 )

• Avanesyan A, Runyon BA.  Utilization of baclofen in maintenance of alcohol abstinence in patients with alcoholic hepaittis in a real-life clinical setting.  Regional Meeting of the American College of Physicians, Laguna Niguel, CA, October 2010 ( 10/2010 )

• Mendler MH, Lim NH, Kim J. Che Ko, Joo E, Runyon BA.  HBV screeing in 1007 first generation Koreans living in two large California counties east of Los Angeles reveals a lower than expected carrier rate.  61st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston, Mass, October 2010. ( 10/2010 )

• Madhavi Vetsa, Michel Mendler, Bruce Runyon.  Ferritin Elevation in Acute/Subacute Icteric Hepatitis Regularly Leads to a Misdiagnosis of Iron Overload.  Annual Postgraduate Conference, Loma Linda, CA, March 2010 ( 3/2010 )

• Michel H .Mendler, Eloy Schulz, Lorena M. Salto, Larry Beeson, Anthony Firek, Marino DeLeon, Zaida Cordero-MacIntyre.  The "En Balance" 3-month diabetes education program for Hispanics leads to significant improvements in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. AASLD Liver Meeting, Boston, MA, October 30-November 3, 2009 ( 0/2009 )

• Wijeratne R, Govindarajan S, Runyon BA. "Neuropathological abnormalities in cirrhosis: Is routine imaging warranted in the evaluation of confusion?" 59th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, San Francisco, California ( 11/2008 )

• Mendler MH, Madrigal E, Tsushima MM, Agarwal A, Runyon BA.  "Developmental phase of a new point of service test for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP using a leukocyte esterase method: preliminary results". Digestive Disease Week, San Diego, California ( 5/2008 )

• Wijeratne R, Govindarajan S, Runyon BA. "Discrepancies between clinical and autopsy diagnoses in a hospital with a large liver unit". 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts ( 11/2007 )

• Wijeratne R, Govindarajan S, Runyon BA.  "Patients with advanced liver disease are protected from severe coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction: an age matched autopsy based case control study". 58th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston, Masachusetts ( 11/2007 )

• Wijeratne R, Runyon BA, Govindarajan S. "Patients with advanced liver disease have very low prevalence of pulmonary embolism even without preventive measures". 57th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, Boston, Massachusetts ( 10/2006 )