We read with great interest the article of Ratziu and colleagues, who evaluated the potential of thrombospondin-2 (TSP2), insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7, CD163 and growth differentiation ...
Background Depending on the colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme, a colonoscopy should be performed within 1–3 months ...
Background Endometriosis is a debilitating gynaecological disorder with an elusive pathogenesis. While gut microbiota dysbiosis has been implicated, the causal role of gut-peritoneum microbial ...
9 Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, Wigan, UK Background Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) is a ...
Background Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic disease characterised by oesophageal epithelial remodelling, barrier dysfunction and inflammation. The transcription factor forkhead ...
Background The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is rapidly increasing with high ...
2 Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pancreatic Disease, Hangzhou, China Background Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a highly aggressive malignancy with limited treatment options and poor ...
Background Diffuse gastric cancer (DGC) is the most common manifestation in germline CTNNA1 variant carriers, with one study estimating a 49–57% lifetime risk by age 80. Knowledge on CTNNA1-associated ...
1 Department of Gastroenterology, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China 2 Department of Gastroenterology, the General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, Jinan, China 3 Department of ...
International consensus meetings in Padova and Vienna have attempted to rationalise the grading and classification of gastrointestinal epithelial neoplasia (GEN). With its minor adjustments, the ...
Recent studies have identified mucosal healing on endoscopy as a key prognostic parameter in the management of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), thus highlighting the role of endoscopy for monitoring ...
Correspondence to Professor Jingmei Jiang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, ...