Liver fibrosis should be assessed in all individuals with chronic liver disease as it predicts the risk of future liver-related morbidity and thus need for treatment, monitoring and surveillance.
Correspondence to Dr Citadel J Cabasag, Cancer Surveillance Branch, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; cabasagc{at}fellows.iarc.fr We read with interest the commentary by ...
1 State Key Laboratory of Systems Medicine for Cancer; Key Laboratory of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Ministry of Health; Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Shanghai Cancer Institute; ...
Dr L Lundell, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, S-413 45 Göteborg, Sweden. BACKGROUND Endoscopic oesophageal changes are diagnostically helpful and identify patients exposed to ...
Background Intestinal fibrosis is a common complication of inflammatory bowel disease, and its core pathogenesis is fibroblast activation and massive extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition. In recent ...
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 Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective virus that completes its life cycle only with hepatitis B virus (HBV). The HBV with HDV super-infection has been considered as one of the most severe ...
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 ...
Professor J P Galmiche, Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine, CRI INSERM 95-08, CHU, Hôtel Dieu, Place A Ricordeau, 44035 Nantes cedex 01, France. Email:galmiche{at}easynet.fr BACKGROUND/AIM ...
Correspondence to Dr Jonathan D Schertzer, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, Canada; schertze{at}mcmaster.ca Microbiota are a source of low-grade inflammation ...
a Department of Medicine, King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, London, UK, b Department of Rheumatology, Northwick Park Hospital, Middlesex, UK Dr I Bjarnason, Department of Medicine, King ...
4 Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals Leuven, KU Leuven, Belgium Correspondence to Dr Marc Ferrante, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospitals ...