An 82-year-old man with alcohol-related cirrhosis (Child-Pugh class B), complicated by portal hypertension and a history of partial gastrectomy with Billroth I reconstruction for duodenal ulcer ...

2 Departments of Biochemistry and Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Li Ka Shing Insitute of Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Objective Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection ...

Background Several studies have shown that smoking increases the risk of chronic pancreatitis. However, the impact of smoking on the development of acute pancreatitis has not been fully studied.

Hôpital Claude Huriez, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, Lille, France Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of adalimumab in the healing of draining fistulas in patients with active Crohn’s ...

Correspondence to Professor Giovanni Targher, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Verona Department of Medicine, Verona 37126, Italy; giovanni.targher{at}univr.it Non-alcoholic fatty liver ...

Objective To gain mechanistic insights, we compared effects of low fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides and monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP) and high FODMAP diets on symptoms, the ...

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 ...

1 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Translational Research Center for Gastrointestinal Disorders (TARGID), University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 2 Department of Gastroenterology, ...

6 Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 7 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, National University Health ...