2 Department of Internal Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Internal Medicine, GI Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 4 ...
Background Clinicians use fibrosis in a liver biopsy to predict clinical outcomes of chronic liver disease. The performance of non-invasive tests has been evaluated against histological assessment of ...
Correspondence to Professor Shiv Kumar Sarin, Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India; shivsarin{at}gmail.com Objectives Beta-blockers and endoscopic ...
BACKGROUND/AIMS Intestinal metaplasia (IM) is a common finding at the oesophagogastric junction, but the aetiopathogenesis of the different IM subtypes—that is, incomplete IM (specialised columnar ...
Background Existing scales for assessing faecal incontinence have not been validated against clinical assessment, or with regard to reproducibility. They also fail to take into account faecal urgency, ...
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BACKGROUND Crohn's disease is a heterogeneous disorder with both a genetic and environmental aetiology. Clinical classifications of the disease, such as the newly proposed Vienna classification, may ...
The Center for Gastroenterological Research, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Professor R Fass, University of Arizona, The Neuroenteric Clinical Research Group, Southern Arizona VA ...
Correspondence to Scott L Friedman, Division of Liver Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1425 Madison Ave., Room 11-70C, Box 1123, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA; ...
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1 Department of Gastroenterology, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, China 2 International Cooperation Laboratory on Signal Transduction, Eastern Hepatobiliary ...
Correspondence to Professor Wael El-Rifai, Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA; wxe45{at}miami.edu; Professor Shutian Zhang, Department of Gastroenterology, ...