Background The prevalence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is rapidly increasing with high ...

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

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Citadel J Cabasag, Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; cabasagc{at}fellows.iarc.fr We read with interest the commentary by ...

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.

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 ...

Objective HBV infection by blood components is currently prevented in most developed countries by combining sensitive HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) assays, nucleic acid testing (NAT) and in a few of ...

Background Gastric polyps are important as some have malignant potential. If such polyps are left untreated, gastric cancer may result. The malignant potential depends on the histological type of the ...

Objective To monitor trastuzumab resistance and determine the underlying mechanisms for the limited response rate and rapid emergence of resistance of HER2+ metastatic gastric cancer (mGC). Design ...