Background Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) enables en bloc resection of early gastrointestinal cancers and provides ...

2 School Of Medical Sciences – Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia 3 Gastrointestinal FunctionandMotiltiy Unit (GiFM) – Hospital Pakar Universiti Sains Malaysia, ...

Eight cases of ecstasy related acute liver damage referred to a specialised liver unit are described. Two patients presented after collapse within six hours of ecstasy ingestion with hyperthermia, ...

Tissue epithelia maintain their lineage identity under normal conditions but occasionally undergo ‘reprogramming’ into ...

We read the global analysis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in cirrhosis by Wong et al with great interest.1 Assembling 7040 ...

5 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals and the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Objective Lower GI bleeding (LGIB) is a common ...

Bacterial infection is a frequent trigger of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), syndrome that could also increase the risk of infection. This investigation evaluated prevalence and characteristics ...

Prof. Dr C H C M Buys, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Groningen, A. Deusinglaan 4, NL-9713 AW Groningen, The Netherlands. Background—Germline mutations of the RET proto-oncogene ...

1 National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation and GI Physiology Unit, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Objective The ...

Correspondence to Dr Guangfu Jin, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China; guangfujin{at}njmu.edu.cn ...

Objectives GI endoscopy units represent the third largest producers of medical waste. We aimed to determine endoscopic instrument composition and life cycle assessment (LCA) and to assess a ...

Background and aims: Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic multifactorial inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) with unknown aetiology, but a deregulated mucosal immune response to ...