Correspondence to Dr G Nicholas Verne, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA; gverne{at}tulane.edu Background More effective treatments are ...

Subepithelial lesions (SLEs) are often detected incidentally during endoscopic examination. They represent a heterogeneous ...

Objective There are altered mucosal functions in irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhoea (IBS-D); ~30% of patients with IBS-D have abnormal bile acid (BA) metabolism (ABAM) and diarrhoea (summarised ...

2 Department of Gastroenterology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, UK 3 Department of Gastroenterology, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation ...

Objective Over half of patients with IBS have either diarrhoea (IBS-D) or a mixed stool pattern (IBS-M). The relative efficacy of licenced pharmacological therapies is unclear in the absence of ...

1 Division of Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA 3 Institute of Human Nutrition, ...

Correspondence to Professor Rohit Loomba, NAFLD Research Center, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA; ...

Background About 10% of patients with IBS report the start of the syndrome after infectious enteritis. The clinical features of postinfectious IBS (PI-IBS) resemble those of diarrhoea-predominant IBS ...

Bacterial infection is a frequent trigger of acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), syndrome that could also increase the risk of infection. This investigation evaluated prevalence and characteristics ...

The understanding of the pathophysiology of Crohn’s disease is currently undergoing a reassessment. The concept of this disease as a primary T cell disorder is being questioned, with a new emphasis on ...

Histopathology Unit, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Royal College of Surgeons, London. Diet is of fundamental importance in the healthy functioning of alimentary epithelium, or during the disease ...

Mrs K Cauch-Dudek, Toronto Hospital, Western Division, 399 Bathurst St, West Wing 4–833, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2S8, Canada. Background—Fatigue is a frequent and debilitating symptom in patients with ...