Background and aims A general dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota has been established in patients with Crohn's disease (CD), but a systematic characterisation of this dysbiosis is lacking.

Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. Fifty nine patients admitted with a diagnosis of psychogenic vomiting were classified into five patterns of vomiting: ...

7 Department of Paediatrics, St George's Hospital, London, UK 8 Department of Gastroenterology, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK 9 Department Gastroenterology, University Hospital of North Tees, UK The ...

Objective To monitor trastuzumab resistance and determine the underlying mechanisms for the limited response rate and rapid emergence of resistance of HER2+ metastatic gastric cancer (mGC). Design ...

Objective To provide the first international comparison of oesophageal and gastric cancer survival by stage at diagnosis and histological subtype across high-income countries with similar access to ...

Background The relationship between delayed gastric emptying and upper GI symptoms (UGI Sx) is controversial. Objective To assess association between gastric emptying and UGI Sx, independent of ...

The aim of this study was to establish the relative importance of risk factors for mortality after acute upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage, and to formulate a simple numerical scoring system that ...

Correspondence to Dr G Nicholas Verne, Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112-2699, USA; gverne{at}tulane.edu Background More effective treatments are ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard C Pollok, Gastroenterology, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London SW17 0QT, UK; richard.pollok{at}nhs.net Objective Depression is a potential risk ...

Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) enables en bloc resection for early gastrointestinal malignancies but is technically ...

Objective To validate Lyon Consensus criteria for diagnosing gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) by reflux monitoring. Design Manual review of impedance-pH tracings from patients with proton pump ...

Background and aims The crosstalk between cancer stem cells (CSCs) and their niche is required for the maintenance of stem cell-like phenotypes of CSCs. Here, we identified E26 transformation-specific ...