Background Depending on the colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme, a colonoscopy should be performed within 1–3 months ...

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

Background Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic disease characterised by oesophageal epithelial remodelling, barrier dysfunction and inflammation. The transcription factor forkhead ...

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

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; ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective virus that completes its life cycle only with hepatitis B virus (HBV). The HBV with HDV super-infection has been considered as one of the most severe ...

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 ...

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 ...