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

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Objective Symptoms in gastroparesis (Gp) and functional dyspepsia (FD) overlap; using egg protein substitute to measure gastric emptying of solids (GES), ~40% of patients are reclassified from Gp to ...

Correspondence to Brian B Scott, Department of Medicine, Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY, UK; drbbscott{at}aol.com Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) occurs in 2–5% of adult men and postmenopausal ...

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) ...

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 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 Delivering better outcomes for cancer is a major part of the Long Term Plan for the NHS. For colo-rectal cancer (CRC) better outcomes will mainly come from earlier diagnosis of CRC and ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy and European Laboratory of Food Induced Disease (ELFID), Naples, Italy Background and aims: The genetic load in coeliac ...

Background: Mouse models of colitis and cancer are indispensable for our understanding of the pathogenesis of these diseases. In the past, mice had to be sacrificed in order to analyse colitis ...

Introduction Osteoporosis is common in Crohn’s disease patients. 1 Autophagy genes have so far never being studied as potential risk factors for osteoporosis in Crohn›s disease. Methods We have ...