Objective An international meeting was organised to develop consensus on (1) the landmarks to define the gastro-oesophageal junction (GOJ), (2) the occurrence and pathophysiological significance of ...

Background and objective Gastric cancer (GC) remains a prevalent and preventable disease, yet accurate early diagnostic ...

These updated guidelines on the management of abnormal liver blood tests have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) of the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) ...

Background Chicoric acid (CA), a hydroxycinnamic acid, has been reported to possess anti-inflammation activities. However, the specific mechanisms by which CA influences dextran sulfate sodium ...

Objective Patients with increased PD-L1 + host cells in tumours are more potent to benefit from antiprogrammed death-1/programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) treatment, but the underlying mechanism is ...

Dr P Sharma, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Kansas, Gastroenterology Section (111), VA Medical Center, 4801 E Linwood Blvd, Kansas City, MO 64128, USA. BACKGROUND Biopsy specimens ...

1 Liver Unit, Department of Medicine A, Imperial College School of Medicine, St Mary’s Hospital Campus, South Wharf Street, London W2 1PG, UK 2 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Royal Free Hospital ...

Cirrhotic portal hypertension is characterised by development of the decompensating events of ascites, encephalopathy, portal hypertensive bleeding and hepatorenal syndrome, which arise in a setting ...

Correspondence to Professor Lee-Yan Sheen, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; lysheen{at}ntu.edu.tw and Professor Ming-Shiang Wu, Department of ...

Correspondence to Professor Jacques J G H M Bergman, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, Amsterdam 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; j.j.bergman{at}amsterdamumc.nl Despite important ...

Dr V V Smith, Histopathology, Camelia Botnar Laboratories, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK. Three infants, who presented with intestinal obstruction due to ...

Background The majority of endoscopic antireflux procedures for GERD are cumbersome to use and randomised long-term data are sparse. We conducted such a trial to determine the efficacy and safety of a ...