BACKGROUND AND AIMS Controversy surrounds the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) in ulcerative colitis (UC). Many studies have investigated this risk and reported widely varying rates. METHODS A ...

Correspondence to Dr Yanlei Ma, Department of Colorectal Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai 200032, China; yanleima{at}fudan.edu.cn Objective The incidence of early-onset ...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Use of the conventional Western and Japanese classification systems of gastrointestinal epithelial neoplasia results in large differences among pathologists in the diagnosis of oesophageal, ...

4 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to Dr Marc Ferrante, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals ...

Background Microbiota-host interactions are crucial in the progression of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Despite extensive research, the detailed mechanisms through which these interactions ...

a Department of Medicine, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK, b Department of Rheumatology, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, UK Dr I Bjarnason, Department of Medicine, King ...

Short-term oral prednisolone was successfully used in the treatment of four patients with chronic erosive gastritis which had failed to respond to conventional therapies. Symptomatic improvement ...

Department of Pathology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium Dr D Sifrim, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Lab G-I Physiopathology, O & N Gasthuisberg 1, Herestraat 49 ...

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centre, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Dr A Sonnenberg, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centre 111F, 1501 San Pedro Drive SE, ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael J Bourke, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 2145, New South Wales, Australia; michael{at}citywestgastro.com.au Background and aims ...

Section of Cancer Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, UK Dr A Walther, Molecular and Population Genetics, London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK, 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London ...