Background —The appropriate medical treatment of patients with ulcerative colitis is determined largely by the severity of symptoms. Hospital assessment of the severity of disease activity includes ...

Objective In human chronic liver disease, there is association between ductular reaction (DR) and fibrosis; yet, the mechanism triggering its onset and its role in scar formation remains unknown.

Pepsin in saliva for the diagnosis of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease ...

BACKGROUND/AIM: Nitric oxide (NO) may be involved in non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) inhibitory innervation of the sphincter of Oddi (SO). The effects of topical application of glyceryl ...

Infectious diarrhoea is the most common cause of diarrhoea worldwide and is the leading cause of death in childhood. Gastrointestinal infections have their major impact in the developing world. In the ...

The size of the related lymph nodes and their histology has been correlated in 34 specimens of Crohn's disease. Granulomata were shown not to affect the maximum diameter of the lymph nodes nor to be ...

We read the recently published article, ‘How accurate is EUS-guided direct portal vein pressure measurement? A comparison ...