We read with great interest the recent study by Gilliam-Vigh et al demonstrating significant transcriptomic alterations in ...

Correspondence to Dr Manasi Agrawal, The Dr. Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA; manasi.agrawal{at}mountsinai.org ...

Background With population ageing, elderly patients account for a growing proportion of hepatic surgery recipients. Hepatic ischaemia-reperfusion injury (HIRI) is a major cause of postoperative liver ...

Correspondence to Professor Min Dai, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College , Beijing ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Fabio Cominelli, School of Medicine, Medicine/Gastroenterology & Liver Disease, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA; fabio.cominelli{at}uhhospitals.org ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Systems Medicine for Cancer, Stem Cell Research Center, Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Centre ...

2 Inserm U954, Genetic Nutrition and Exposure to Environmental Risks (NGERE), University of Lorraine, Vandoeuvre- lès-Nancy, France Correspondence to Professor Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Inserm U954 and ...

Correspondence to Marc G Besselink, Department of Surgery, Amsterdam Gastroenterology and Metabolism, AMC Amsterdam, 22660, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; m.g.besselink{at}amc.uva.nl Acute pancreatitis ...

Correspondence to Professor Decai YU, Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Nanjing University Medical School Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; yudecai{at}nju.edu.cn ...

Background: Identification of patients at risk for mortality early in the course of acute pancreatitis (AP) is an important step in improving outcome. Methods: Using Classification and Regression Tree ...

Objective Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is characterised by stromal desmoplasia and vascular dysfunction, which critically impair drug delivery. This study examines the role of an abundant ...