We read with great interest the study by Van der Voort et al ,1 which compared rectal versus colonic submucosal cancer rates ...

The 2022 UK-wide acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) audit by Nigam and colleagues is a landmark. With ...

Background—Peripheral arthropathy is a well-recognised complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Little is known of its natural history, but a variety of joint involvement has been described, ...

Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies ...

19 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 24 Center for Digestive Diseases Research and Clinical Translation of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ...

Background: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often feel they have some form of dietary intolerance and frequently try exclusion diets. Tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS ...

1 Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Genomic ...

Objective In patients with an intermediate likelihood of choledocholithiasis, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) guidelines recommend endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) or magnetic ...

1 Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital Boston and ...

Objective Follow-up studies have shown that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with an increased risk of incident diabetes, but currently, it is uncertain whether this risk ...

Introduction All patients in the UK with a diagnosis of gastric ulcer are recommended to have a follow-up endoscopy within 12 weeks. However, in a low-risk population, such measures may not be ...

3 Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Robert D and Patricia E Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA There is no ...