Risk stratification in compensated advanced chronic liver disease has traditionally been based on the identification of ...

Background Why alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) resolves after abstinence in most people but progresses to liver failure in others remains poorly understood. Experimental models show that ...

The Rome diagnostic criteria for the functional bowel disorders and functional abdominal pain are used widely in research and practice. A committee consensus approach, including criticism from ...

Correspondence to Professor Jingmei Jiang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, ...

1 Department of Endocrinology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, West Smithfield, London, UK 2 Department of Gastroenterology, St Bartholomew’s Hospital Correspondence to: Dr P J Jenkins, Department of ...

The authors have produced a unique study of 624 patients with ulcerative colitis for they have achieved a 100% follow-up of all these patients admitted to the Radcliffe Infirmary or to the Churchill ...

Correspondence to Professor Min Dai, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College , Beijing ...

Correspondence to Dr Michael J Bourke, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead 2145, New South Wales, Australia; michael{at}citywestgastro.com.au Background and aims ...

4 Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to Ashraf E K Ibrahim, Department of Pathology, Division of Molecular ...

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 ...

Objective Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective virus that completes its life cycle only with hepatitis B virus (HBV). The HBV with HDV super-infection has been considered as one of the most severe ...

Background and aims RNA interference has been extensively explored in patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection. We aimed to characterise the long-term efficacy of small interfering RNA (siRNA ...