Short-term oral prednisolone was successfully used in the treatment of four patients with chronic erosive gastritis which had failed to respond to conventional therapies. Symptomatic improvement ...

Introduction Maintenance of enteral nutrition is considered to be beneficial for patients in whom the oral access has been lost. For long term tube feeding, PEG (percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy) ...

a Fibrosis Group, Clinical Sciences Unit, University of Queensland Department of Medicine and Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia, b Department of Pathology, Royal Brisbane ...

Correspondence to Professor Francis K L Chan, Medicine and Therapeutics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; fklchan{at}cuhk.edu.hk Objective Patients with a history of Helicobacter ...

Introduction Patients with chronic liver disease have increased risk of bone disease (BD) with reported prevalence of osteoporosis (OP) between 12%–55% and a high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency.

Correspondence to Dr Daisy Jonkers, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht 6229 HX, The Netherlands; ...

Background Fungal esophagitis is an uncommon condition which is usually found in patients with an impaired immune system. Patients with normal immune system could also develop fungal esophagitis. In ...

Introduction The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) set standards for the management of chronic pancreatitis. This study aims to review the compliance with these guidelines of ...

Background Fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC), a rare and fatal liver cancer lacking effective drug therapy, is driven by the DNAJ ...

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In the majority of patients with chronic gastrointestinal and liver diseases, maintenance therapy is required during pregnancy to control the disease, and disease follow-up or disease control might ...

Manometric examination of the oesophagus frequently reveals abnormalities whose cause is unknown and whose physiological importance is not clear. A large body of literature dealing with oesophageal ...