Background—Gut translocation of bacteria has been shown in both animal and human studies. Evidence from animal studies that links bacterial translocation to the development of postoperative sepsis and ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy and European Laboratory of Food Induced Disease (ELFID), Naples, Italy Background and aims: The genetic load in coeliac ...

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 ...

Objective We performed a meta-analysis of observational studies to quantify the magnitude of the association between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and risk of extrahepatic cancers. Design ...

Correspondence to Mr Amyn Haji, King’s Institute of Therapeutic Endoscopy, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, SE5 9RS, UK; amynhaji{at}me.com ...

Background and aims The gastric epithelium undergoes continuous turnover. Corpus epithelial stem cells located in the gastric isthmus serve as a source of tissue self-renewal. We recently identified ...

1 Department of Pathology and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical ...

With the growing number of novel therapeutic approaches for liver diseases, significant research efforts have been devoted to the development of liquid biopsy tools for precision medicine. This can be ...

Background For large non-pedunculated rectal polyps, en bloc resection via endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is typically recommended due to presumed higher risk of submucosal invasive cancer ...

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 ...

The effect of tea on iron absorption was studied in human volunteers. Absorption from solutions of FeCl3 and FeSO4, bread, a meal of rice with potato and onion soup, and uncooked haemoglobin was ...