Background Intestinal fibrosis resulting in stricture formation and obstruction in Crohn’s disease (CD) and increased wall stiffness leading to symptoms in ulcerative colitis (UC) is among the largest ...
Correspondence to Dr Ikuo Hirano, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 North Saint Clair, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; i ...
Objective The significance of the liver-microbiome axis has been increasingly recognised as a major modulator of autoimmunity. The aim of this study was to take advantage of a large well-defined ...
1 Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Genomic ...
Background—Peripheral arthropathy is a well-recognised complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Little is known of its natural history, but a variety of joint involvement has been described, ...
Background: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often feel they have some form of dietary intolerance and frequently try exclusion diets. Tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS ...
Background Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) imposes a substantial global disease burden and is associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis. Our preliminary studies have shown that CD36 expression is positively ...
Correspondence to: Dr G J Gores Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA; gores.gregorymayo.edu ...
Introduction Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), is a chronic inflammatory condition with driven by genetic, immune, microbiome, and ...
Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies ...
We read with great interest the study by Van der Voort et al ,1 which compared rectal versus colonic submucosal cancer rates ...
The 2022 UK-wide acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) audit by Nigam and colleagues is a landmark. With ...