The Rome diagnostic criteria for the functional bowel disorders and functional abdominal pain are used widely in research and practice. A committee consensus approach, including criticism from ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Giovanni Targher, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Verona Department of Medicine, Verona 37126, Italy; giovanni.targher{at}univr.it Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...

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 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 ...

Introduction There is increasing evidence for the use of probiotic bacteria in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Most reports to date have been in patients with diarrhoea or bloating.

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, ...

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 ...

Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA Correspondence to: Dr K Dvorak Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, PO Box 245044, ...

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/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 ...

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; ...