Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is typically diagnosed after the onset of symptoms in the context of established, characteristic patterns of intestinal inflammation. However, there is now substantial ...
Background RNA 5-methylcytosine (m 5 C) has emerged as a critical epigenetic regulator in cancer biology, yet its role in the tumour immune microenvironment (TME) remains incompletely understood.
Dr G G Forstner, Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8, Canada email:gforst{at}sickkids.on.ca BACKGROUND AND AIMS ...
Objectives In patients with IBD experiencing an immune-mediated loss of response (LOR) to antitumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF), algorithms recommend a switch of anti-TNF without immunosuppressive ...
BACKGROUND/AIMS Intestinal metaplasia (IM) is a common finding at the oesophagogastric junction, but the aetiopathogenesis of the different IM subtypes—that is, incomplete IM (specialised columnar ...
Objective In the tumour microenvironment, critical drivers of immune escape include the oncogenic activity of the tumour cell-intrinsic osteopontin (OPN), the expression of programmed death ligand 1 ...
Introduction Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease, with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as a major predictor. Insulin resistance and chronic ...
Correspondence to Professor Young-Suk Lim, Department of Gastroenterology, Asan Medical Center, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Korea (the Republic of); limys{at}amc.seoul.kr; Professor Eui-Kyung Lee, School of ...
Background Existing scales for assessing faecal incontinence have not been validated against clinical assessment, or with regard to reproducibility. They also fail to take into account faecal urgency, ...
15 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Background Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) affects over 30% of the general ...
Correspondence to Dr Yiqi Du, Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, the Second Military Medical University, 168 Changhai Road, Shanghai 200433, China; duyiqi{at}hotmail.com Dr ZhaoShen Li ...
Objective To describe the long-term consequences of necrotising pancreatitis, including complications, the need for interventions and the quality of life. Design Long-term follow-up of a prospective ...