Background Gastric cancer (GC) ranks among the most prevalent lethal tumours globally. Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are pivotal in creating an immunosuppressive tumour microenvironment (TME) ...
Background For large non-pedunculated rectal polyps, en bloc resection via endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is typically recommended due to presumed higher risk of submucosal invasive cancer ...
Background With population ageing, elderly patients account for a growing proportion of hepatic surgery recipients. Hepatic ischaemia-reperfusion injury (HIRI) is a major cause of postoperative liver ...
After innumerable negative or inconclusive studies to find a pharmacological prophylactic for post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP), two randomised trials in the USA1 and China2 ushered a new era of ...
We read with great interest the article by Adams et al in *Gut* on the development and validation of the Admission Model for Intensification of Therapy in Acute Severe Colitis (ADMIT-ASC) score to ...
National Liver Transplant Unit, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, and University College Dublin, Ireland Dr P Aiden McCormick, Liver Unit, St Vincent's University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin ...
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, ...
a Department of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK, b School of Applied Science, South Bank University, London, UK Dr M J Hopkins, MRC Microbiology and Gut Biology ...
BACKGROUND Crohn's disease is a heterogeneous disorder with both a genetic and environmental aetiology. Clinical classifications of the disease, such as the newly proposed Vienna classification, may ...
Correspondence to Dr Rosanna Cannatelli, Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Department of Biochemical and Clinical Sciences "L. Sacco", University of Milan, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, ...
4 State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency ...
Correspondence to Professor Shiv Kumar Sarin, Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi 110070, India; shivsarin{at}gmail.com Objectives Beta-blockers and endoscopic ...