Liver fibrosis should be assessed in all individuals with chronic liver disease as it predicts the risk of future liver-related morbidity and thus need for treatment, monitoring and surveillance.

Background Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) is a common medical emergency with evolving demographics and ...

Background Globally, an estimated 296 million individuals live with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, carrying ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Systems Medicine for Cancer; Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Ministry of Health; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Shanghai Cancer Institute; ...

Background Intestinal fibrosis is a common complication of inflammatory bowel disease, and its core pathogenesis is fibroblast activation and massive extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition. In recent ...

Dr L Lundell, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, S-413 45 Göteborg, Sweden. BACKGROUND Endoscopic oesophageal changes are diagnostically helpful and identify patients exposed to ...

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 ...

Hôpital Claude Huriez, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of adalimumab in the healing of draining fistulas in patients with active Crohn’s ...

Background: Identification of patients at risk for mortality early in the course of acute pancreatitis (AP) is an important step in improving outcome. Methods: Using Classification and Regression Tree ...

a Department of Medicine, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK, b Department of Rheumatology, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, UK Dr I Bjarnason, Department of Medicine, King ...

John E Kellow, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia. Email: johnk{at}med.usyd.edu.au Many of the symptoms ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The ...