Pamela Sylvestre

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
MD: University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA.
Residency: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, USC/LAC Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Fellowships: (1) Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.  (2) Pediatric Pathology,  Emory University School of Medicine, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA.
Board Certifications: (1) American Board of Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology. (2) American Board of Pathology - Pediatric Pathology.
 
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH FOCUS
Gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary disorders, including inflammatory bowel disease, necrotizing enterocolitis, celiac disease, primary sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cholangitis, autoimmune hepatitis, liver transplant pathology, and small bowel transplant pathology.

Peer Reviewed Publications

Talari N.K.; Mattam U.; Rahman A.P.; Hemmelgarn B.K.; Wyder M.A.; Sylvestre P.B.; Greis K.D.; Chella Krishnan K.  (12-01-2025). Functional compartmentalization of hepatic mitochondrial subpopulations during MASH progression. Communications Biology, 8 (1) More Information

Keane O.A.; Dantes G.; Dutreuil V.L.; Do L.; Rumbika S.; Sylvestre P.B.; Bhatia A.M.  (04-01-2024). Comparison of preoperative and intraoperative surgeon diagnosis and pathologic findings in spontaneo. Journal of Perinatology, 44 (4) , 568-574More Information

Satapathy S.K.; Eason J.D.; Nair S.; Dryn O.; Sylvestre P.B.; Kocak M.; Vanatta J.M.  (10-01-2015). Recidivism in liver transplant recipients with alcoholic liver disease: Analysis of demographic, psy. Experimental and Clinical Transplantation, 13 (5) , 430-440More Information

Aygun B.; Mortier N.A.; Kesler K.; Lockhart A.; Schultz W.H.; Cohen A.R.; Alvarez O.; Rogers Z.R.; Kwiatkowski J.L.; Miller S.T.; Sylvestre P.; Iyer R.; Lane P.A.; Ware R.E.  (04-01-2015). Therapeutic phlebotomy is safe in children with sickle cell anaemia and can be effective treatment f. British Journal of Haematology, 169 (2) , 262-266More Information

Nelson J.; Deneve J.; Dickson P.; Sylvestre P.; Munene G.  (01-01-2014). Management of a ruptured mucinous mesenteric cyst with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Tumori, 100 (2) , e55-e58More Information

Bilal M.; Eason J.; Das K.; Sylvestre P.; Dean A.; Vanatta J.  (10-01-2013). Donor-derived metastatic melanoma in a liver transplant recipient established by DNA fingerprinting. Experimental and Clinical Transplantation, 11 (5) , 458-463More Information

Al-Absi A.I.; Cooke C.R.; Wall B.M.; Sylvestre P.; Ismail M.K.; Mya M.  (11-01-2010). Patterns of injury in mycophenolate mofetil-related colitis. Transplantation Proceedings, 42 (9) , 3591-3593More Information

Kleinbaum E.P.; Lazar A.J.F.; Tamborini E.; Mcauliffe J.C.; Sylvestre P.B.; Sunnenberg T.D.; Strong L.; Chen L.L.; Choi H.; Benjamin R.S.; Zhang W.; Trent J.C.  (02-01-2008). Clinical, histopathologic, molecular and therapeutic findings in a large kindred with gastrointestin. International Journal of Cancer, 122 (3) , 711-718More Information

Tombazzi C.; Waters B.; Ismail M.K.; Sylvestre P.B.; Martinez-Hernandez A.; Riely C.A.  (01-01-2008). Sarcoidosis mimicking primary sclerosing cholangitis requiring liver transplantation. Annals of Hepatology, 7 (1) , 83-86More Information

Tendler D.; Lin S.; Yancy W.S.; Mavropoulos J.; Sylvestre P.; Rockey D.C.; Westman E.C.  (02-01-2007). The effect of a low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A pilot study. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 52 (2) , 589-593More Information

Gedaly R.; Shoukouh-Amiri H.; Shimizu A.; Gaber A.O.; Sylvestre P.B.; Vera S.  (10-01-2006). Liver transplantation for the treatment of nonresectable metastatic duodenal paraganglioma. Transplant International, 19 (10) , 848-850More Information

Muir A.; Sylvestre P.; Rockey D.  (05-01-2006). Interferon gamma-1b for the treatment of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C infection. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 13 (5) , 322-328More Information

Ware R.E.; Zimmerman S.A.; Sylvestre P.B.; Mortier N.A.; Davis J.S.; Treem W.R.; Schultz W.H.  (09-01-2004). Prevention of secondary stroke and resolution of transfusional iron overload in children with sickle. Journal of Pediatrics, 145 (3) , 346-352More Information

Heneghan M.A.; Tuttle-Newhall J.E.; Suhocki P.V.; Muir A.J.; Morse M.; Bornstein J.D.; Sylvestre P.B.; Collins B.; Kuo P.C.; Rockey D.C.  (05-01-2003). De-novo cholangiocarcinoma in the setting of recurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis following live. American Journal of Transplantation, 3 (5) , 634-638More Information

Sylvestre P.; Batts K.; Burgart L.; Poterucha J.; Wiesner R.  (01-01-2003). Recurrence of primary biliary cirrhosis after liver transplantation: Histologic estimate of incidenc. Liver Transplantation, 9 (10) , 1086-1093More Information

Angulo P.; MacCarty R.; Sylvestre P.; Jorgensen R.; Wiesner R.; LaRusso N.; Lindor K.  (01-29-2002). Pirfenidone in the treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 47 (1) , 157-161More Information

Abdelmalek M.F.; Angulo P.; Jorgensen R.A.; Sylvestre P.B.; Lindor K.D.  (10-03-2001). Betaine, a promising new agent for patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: Results of a pilot st. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 96 (9 SUPPL.) , 2711-2717More Information

Heneghan M.A.; Sylvestre P.B.  (05-29-2001). Cholestatic diseases of liver transplantation. Seminars in Gastrointestinal Disease, 12 (2) , 133-147

Sylvestre P.; El-Youssef M.; Freese D.; Ishitani M.  (01-01-2001). Caroli's syndrome in a 1-year-old child. Liver Transplantation, 7 (1) , 59More Information

Sylvestre P.; Gonzalez-Koch A.; Ishitani M.  (01-01-2000). Histoplasmosis in an explant liver with subsequent seeding of the liver allograft. Liver Transplantation, 6 (5) , 643More Information

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