Background H. pylori eradication rates for 7 day triple therapy regimens have decreased in many countries in recent years. Recent European guidelines recommend that standard triple therapy should not ...

Gastroparesis is defined by delayed gastric emptying (GE) and symptoms of nausea, vomiting, bloating, postprandial fullness, early satiety and abdominal pain. Most common aetiologies include diabetes, ...

Endoscopic resection of duodenal lesions is affected by a high risk of complications. In the colon, cold snare endoscopic resection showed comparable efficacy to conventional polypectomy, and a ...

Perianal complications of Crohn's disease occur in 25-70% of patients but perineal and genital lesions are rare. Treatment is controversial and there is a risk of recurrent or persistent disease. We ...

a Academic Unit of Pathology, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, b Centre for Digestive Diseases, General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK Professor M F Dixon, Academic Unit of Pathology, Algernon Firth ...

Dr A L Warshaw, W Gerald Austen Professor of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. Background—Ectopic protease activation, microcirculatory ...

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 ...

Objective Our previous studies have identified CXCL8 as the crucial chemokine responsible for gastric cancer metastasis mediated by loss of RACK1. However, the regulatory effect of CXCL8 on immune ...

Introduction Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis is an autoimmune necrotising granulomatous disorder affecting small to medium sized blood vessels mostly ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

1 The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 2 Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska ...

Objective Creeping fat, the wrapping of mesenteric fat around the bowel wall, is a typical feature of Crohn’s disease, and is associated with stricture formation and bowel obstruction. How creeping ...