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

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 ...

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) ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

1 Department of Colorectal Surgery, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Diseases, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China 2 Department ...