Background: Three large randomised trials have shown that screening for colorectal cancer using faecal occult blood (FOB) tests can reduce the mortality from this disease. Two national pilot studies ...
Correspondence to: Dr M Prince, Centre for Liver Research, 4th Floor William Leech Building, Newcastle University Medical School, Framlington Place, Newcastle NE2 4HH, UK; Martin.prince{at}ncl.ac.uk ...
Background—The aetiology and pathology of both idiopathic megarectum and idiopathic megacolon are unknown. In particular, it is unknown whether there are abnormalities involving enteric nerves or ...
2 Microbiology and Tumour Biology Centre, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 4 Microbiology and Tumour ...
Introduction Nutrition therapy in treatment of Chron’s Disease (CD) is not adequately highlighted in adult guidelines despite strong evidence supporting its therapeutic efficacy and thus, this option ...
Introduction Etrasimod (ETR), a once-daily (QD), oral, selective sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor modulator in clinical development for immune-mediated inflammatory disorders, is a substrate of ...
Background While Alistipes putredinis (AP) abundance in the faeces of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) decreases, its role in IBD is not well understood. We, therefore, investigated the ...
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Department of Medical Physics, Bristol and Weston Health Authority. The volume flow rate of blood in the portal vein was measured using a duplex ultrasound system. The many errors inherent in the ...
Functional dyspepsia is a symptom complex characterised by postprandial upper abdominal discomfort or pain, early satiety, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, bloating, and anorexia in the absence ...
Introduction Patients with cirrhosis are frequently malnourished and this has a detrimental effect on outcome in terms of complications, survival after liver transplantation and overall liver-related ...
Background Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic immune-mediated disorder primarily characterized by gastrointestinal tract inflammation. Probiotics are an adjunct to traditional drug therapy for UC.