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

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 ...

Objectives We aimed to determine whether changes in acute severe colitis (ASC) management have translated to improved outcomes and to develop a simple model predicting steroid non-response on ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Dr G J Gores Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA; gores.gregorymayo.edu ...

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

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

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

4 Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Hopital Claude Huriez, CHRU Lille, France Correspondence to: Professor J-F Colombel Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Hopital Claude Huriez, CHRU de Lille, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...