Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is typically diagnosed after the onset of symptoms in the context of established, characteristic patterns of intestinal inflammation. However, there is now substantial ...
1 Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Medical Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, University Medical Hospital Tübingen, Germany 3 ...
Background Post-infection disorders of gut-brain interaction (PI-DGBI) are a subset of chronic gastrointestinal disorders triggered by acute infectious gastroenteritis. These conditions impose a ...
Background Depending on the colorectal cancer (CRC) screening programme, a colonoscopy should be performed within 1–3 months after a positive faecal immunochemical test (FIT) result. However, such ...
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, ...
The Center for Gastroenterological Research, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Professor R Fass, University of Arizona, The Neuroenteric Clinical Research Group, Southern Arizona VA ...
Background Existing scales for assessing faecal incontinence have not been validated against clinical assessment, or with regard to reproducibility. They also fail to take into account faecal urgency, ...
Introduction: There is no consensus on the pharmacological treatment of alcoholic hepatitis. The Glasgow alcoholic hepatitis score (GAHS) has been shown to be more accurate than the modified Maddrey’s ...
1 Tytgat Institute for Liver and Intestinal Research, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Center, The ...
Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Correspondence to Dr Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld, Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler ...
a Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, b Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, ...
The effects of octreotide on regional motor function in the human gut are unclear. In a randomised, blinded study the effects of octreotide (50 micrograms, subcutaneously, three times daily) and ...