A 49-year-old woman with alcohol-related cirrhosis (Child-Pugh B8, MELD 11) and 11 months of abstinence presented with per ...
Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is a major global health problem and a leading cause of liver-related morbidity and ...
Background Duodenal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality in familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), yet the ...
Dr E Corazziari, Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche, Università “La Sapienza”, Policlinico Umberto I Clinica Medica II, Viale del Policlinico, 00161 Rome, Italy AIMS To assess the long term therapeutic ...
Background and aim: There are limited evidence based data concerning the use of azathioprine in ulcerative colitis. We aimed to compare the efficacy of azathioprine and oral 5-aminosalicylic acid in ...
Background and aims Human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) plays an important role in cancer invasion, but the relevant mechanism is not well known. This study aims to investigate the role and ...
Objective The aetiology of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is largely unknown. Previous studies have indicated that both environmental and genetic risk factors may be important. Design We undertook a ...
1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department ...
Correspondence to Professor Anthony Y B Teoh, Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; anthonyteoh{at}surgery.cuhk.edu.hk Objective The optimal management of acute ...
3 Department of Paediatrics, Meander Medisch Centrum, Amersfoort, the Netherlands 4 MediServ BV/Clinical Research facilities BV, Schaijk, the Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr W P Voskuijl Department ...
Background Chronic abdominal pain (CAP) affects 20–50% of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) despite clinical remission, suggesting gut-brain axis (GBA) dysregulation. This study explores ...
Correspondence to Professor Jianguo Chen, Department of Etiology, Qidong Liver Cancer Institute, Qidong People’s Hospital, Qidong 226200, China; chenjg{at}ntu.edu.cn and Professor Hong Tu, State Key ...