Introduction The Rome Foundation stated recommendations in 2016 to report confounding factors in clinical trials concerning functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) [1]. The aim of our study was ...

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 ...

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

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 Dr Chia-Chen Lu, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Fu Jen Catholic University, New Taipei City, Taiwan; chiachen.lulu{at}gmail.com Objective Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

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 ...

3 German Centre for Infection Research (Deutsches Zentrum für Infektionsforschung DZIF), Partner Site Hannover-Braunschweig, Hannover, Germany 4 Computational Biology for Individualised Medicine, ...

7 Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany 8 Institute of Anatomy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Objective Bacterial translocation to ...

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 ...