Correspondence to Professor Jun Yu, Institute of Digestive Disease, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; ...

Introduction Hepatitis C (HCV) is a blood borne virus that is curative in over 90% of cases. The NHS England HCV Elimination Programme is working to eliminate HCV in advance of the WHO goal of 2030, ...

2 Department of Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China 3 Department of Geriatrics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science ...

Objectives National guidelines for the management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) recommend that psychological therapies should be considered, but their relative efficacy is unknown, because there ...

Novel Bacteria and Drug Discovery Research Group (NBDD), Microbiome and Bioresource Research Strength (MBRS), Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia ...

Mr C P Barham, University Department of Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK. Background—Diffuse oesophageal spasm (DOS) is a potential cause of intermittent chest pain and/or ...

Introduction Post endoscopy upper gastrointestinal cancer (PEUGIC) is proposed as a key performance indicator by the British Society of Gastroenterology. We have examined the incidence of PEUGIC ...

Background: Idiopathic slow transit constipation is one of the most severe and often intractable forms of constipation. As motor abnormalities are thought to play an important pathogenetic role, ...

Introduction Dietary treatment, alongside psychological interventions such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), is central to IBS management. A dietitian-led IBS pathway was established in 2021, ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, Thai Nguyen University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Vietnam 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Thanh Ba Hospital, Vietnam 3 Department of Internal Medicine, 103 ...

1 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, China 2 Department of Neurology, The First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, China ...

Background Achalasia is an acquired esophageal neurodegenerative disorder, characterized by selective loss of inhibitory neurons in the myenteric plexus of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES). The ...