Tissue epithelia maintain their lineage identity under normal conditions but occasionally undergo ‘reprogramming’ into ...

Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a disorder of gut-brain interaction, with some recommended treatments targeting brain-gut axis dysfunction. Objective To compare relative efficacy of ...

I read the GOULASH trial with great interest. This multicentre, double-blind randomised clinical trial compared early high-energy enteral nutrition (30 kcal/kg/day) with a gradually increasing energy ...

Bacterial infection is a frequent trigger of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), syndrome that could also increase the risk of infection. This investigation evaluated prevalence and characteristics ...

Correspondence to Dr Gyongyi Szabo, Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02115, USA; gszabo1{at}bidmc.harvard.edu Objective Alcohol ...

Background and aims: Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic multifactorial inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) with unknown aetiology, but a deregulated mucosal immune response to ...

Background: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often feel they have some form of dietary intolerance and frequently try exclusion diets. Tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS ...

3 The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Genetics of Obesity & Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA 4 Institute for Community ...

1 National Centre for Bowel Research and Surgical Innovation and GI Physiology Unit, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Objective The ...

Division of Gastroenterology, Azienda Ospedaliera S Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy Correspondence to: Dr C Prantera, Divisione di Gastroenterologia, Azienda Ospedaliera S Camillo-Forlanini, Via ...

Correspondence to Dr Guangfu Jin, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China; guangfujin{at}njmu.edu.cn ...

Background/Aim Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is common among patients with liver cirrhosis with 30–40% of patients decompensating with overt HE during their clinical course. 1 The American Association ...