Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS) is a serious complication of end-stage liver disease, occurring mainly in patients with advanced cirrhosis and ascites, who have marked circulatory dysfunction,1 as well as ...

The suitability and tolerability of oats has been a long-standing controversy in the management of coeliac disease (CD). In ...

Objective Number of reflux episodes, an adjunctive metric on pH-impedance monitoring, is incompletely studied. We aimed to determine if number of reflux episodes associates with therapeutic outcome in ...

The effects of pathogenic organisms on host intestinal epithelial cells are vast. Innumerable signalling pathways are triggered leading ultimately to drastic changes in physiological functions. Here, ...

Background Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects over 30% of the general population and is the fastest growing cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Current ...

Background Gut microbiota and its metabolites are important factors affecting the treatment and progression of ulcerative colitis, but the mechanism was still unclear. This study aims to study the ...

Objective Despite widespread use of antibiotics for the treatment of life-threatening infections and for research on the role of commensal microbiota, our understanding of their effects on the host is ...

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Background: Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) often feel they have some form of dietary intolerance and frequently try exclusion diets. Tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS ...

Objective Cancer immunology is a growing field of research whose aim is to develop innovative therapies and diagnostic tests. Starting from the hypothesis that immune cells promptly respond to harmful ...

INTRODUCTION Pharmacotherapy for upper gastrointestinal bleeding has been difficult to evaluate because clinical end points are infrequent and affected by other factors. AIMS To evaluate whether blood ...

Among the many areas which may benefit from virtual reality (VR), GI endoscopy could be an important one. We developed a system to magnify the endoscopic image on forward movement of the endoscopists ...