Introduction Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a neuropsychiatric state which may complicate cirrhosis following the accumulation of toxic substances that cross the blood-brain barrier and affect brain ...

a Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK, b Gastroenterology Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Dr R N Allan, Queen Elizabeth ...

3 Center for Children Health Services, Reykjavík, and Sudurnes Health Institute, Keflavik, Iceland 4 Department of Medicine, GKT Medical School, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor I Bjarnason, ...

Introduction British Society of Gastroenterology has recommended to use the Edinburgh Dysphagia Score (EDS) (with a cut off ≥ 3.5) to risk stratify dysphagia referrals during the endoscopy COVID ...

Correspondence to Professor Jun Yu, Institute of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

Objective Induction of immune protection against pathogens is particularly crucial during the neonatal period dominated by anti-inflammatory and tolerance immunity. The preclinical study was carried ...

Background and aims: It has been suggested that gastric cardia adenocarcinoma (GCA) is a distinct entity from oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OA). We examined several ...

Correspondence to Dr Eileen Morgan, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France; morgane{at}iarc.who.int Objective Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer ...

The effects of loperamide on net solute and water absorption, and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and cholera toxin-induced secretion were studied in the rat jejunum using an in vivo steady-state perfusion ...

Objective Both the gut microbiome and host genetics are known to play significant roles in the pathogenesis of IBD. However, the interaction between these two factors and its implications in the ...

Professor M Trevisan, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 270 Farber Hall, 3435 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14214–3000, USA. Email: trevisan{at ...