1 Department of Gastroenterology, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Histopathology, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK 3 Department of Gastroenterology, The General ...

Introduction Steroids have been an established treatment in flares of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) for the past 50 years. Whilst evidence exists to guide the initial dose of these drugs, data ...

1 IBD Nurse Specialist, Antrim Area Hospital, Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Antrim, UK 2 IBD Nurse Specialist, Ambulatory Care Centre, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Health and Social Care ...

2 Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK Methods Material and Methods: This was a single centre, double blind, randomised, placebo controlled trial ...

Introduction In 2014, the BSG standards framework set out key performance indicators for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Recent JAG Census from ERCP units and Getting It Right ...

Correspondence to Dr Ronan J Kelly, The Gastroesophageal Cancer Therapeutics Program, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bunting Blaustein ...

Background—Populations at low risk of colonic cancer consume large amounts of fibre and starch and pass acid, bulky stools. One short chain fatty acid (SCFA), butyrate, is the colon’s main energy ...

USC Research Centre for Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Correspondence to Dr N Kaplowitz, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, ...

University of Technology of Compiègne, UMR CNRS 6600 – Biomechanics and Bioengineering, Compiègne, France Correspondence to Dr C Legallais, UTC, UMR CNRS 6600 Biomechanics and Bioengineering, BP 20529 ...

Background Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have higher pancreatic cancer (PC) risk. While aspirin has chemopreventive effects on digestive cancers, its effect on PC among patients with ...

Background: The colonic epithelium maintains a life long reciprocally beneficial interaction with the colonic microbiota. Disruption is associated with mucosal injury. Aims: We hypothesised that ...

International consensus meetings in Padova and Vienna have attempted to rationalise the grading and classification of gastrointestinal epithelial neoplasia (GEN). With its minor adjustments, the ...