2 VA Puget Sound Health Care System and Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA In the recent 1–2 decades, we have seen a considerable ...
Background Chronic liver diseases (CLD) represent a major public health problem, accounting for significant mortality of more than 1.75 million deaths are attributed to it. Among these, Non-alcoholic ...
Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA 02111, USA Dr George Perides, Department of Surgery, Tufts-New England Medical Center, 860 ...
Conflict of interest statement.Professor Irvine shares ownership of the copyright, together with McMaster University, of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ). Modern medicine has had a ...
a Liver Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona Medical School, Barcelona, Spain, b Service of Microbiology, Hospital Clínic, Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona Medical ...
Objective The success of treatment planning relies critically on our ability to predict the potential benefit of a therapy. In colorectal cancer (CRC), several nomograms are available to predict ...
Background—Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) and octreotide therapy have both changed the management of gastroenteropancreatic endocrine tumours, but very few data are available on the use of ...
Timely detection of oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) and even more so its precursor Barrett’s oesophagus (BO) could contribute to decrease OAC incidence and mortality. An accurate, minimally-invasive ...
Objective Patients with renal failure suffer from symptoms caused by uraemic toxins, possibly of gut microbial origin, as deduced from studies in animals. The aim of the study is to characterise ...
Dr V V Smith, Histopathology, Camelia Botnar Laboratories, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK. Three infants, who presented with intestinal obstruction due to ...
Inflammatory bowel disease and Parkinson’s disease are chronic progressive disorders that mainly affect different organs: the gut and brain, respectively. Accumulating evidence has suggested a ...
Objective Effects of the diet-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis reach far beyond the gut. We aim to uncover the direct evidence involving the gut–testis axis in the aetiology of impaired ...