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 ...

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael Blaise Cook, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rm 7-E106, MSC 9774, Bethesda, MD 20892-9774, ...

Objectives Perforation is the most serious complication associated with endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR). We propose a new classification for the appearance and integrity of the muscularis propria ...