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 ...

1 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Department of Gastroenterology, ...

We read with great interest the study by Van der Voort et al ,1 which compared rectal versus colonic submucosal cancer rates ...

Background The aetiology and pathogenesis of IBD are intricate, involving genetic and environmental factors. Notably, cigarette smoking has contrasting effects, being detrimental to Crohn’s disease ...

Professor M W Büchler, Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital of Bern, Inselspital, CH-3010 Bern, Switzerland. BACKGROUND The pharmacological inhibition of exocrine ...

Objective Number of reflux episodes, an adjunctive metric on pH-impedance monitoring, is incompletely studied. We aimed to determine if number of reflux episodes associates with therapeutic outcome in ...

Objective In patients with an intermediate likelihood of choledocholithiasis, European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) guidelines recommend endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) or magnetic ...

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 Professor Jingmei Jiang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, ...

The 2022 UK-wide acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) audit by Nigam and colleagues is a landmark. With ...

Objective Stomach cancer is a leading cause of cancer death, especially in developing countries. Incidence has been associated with poverty and is also reported to disproportionately affect indigenous ...

Background The brain–gut axis is a key regulator of normal intestinal physiology; for example, psychological stress is linked to altered gut barrier function, development of food allergies and changes ...