Introduction Constipation is common in the community, and may affect survival adversely. An association between constipation and development of colorectal cancer (CRC) could be one possible ...

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Dr I Bjarnason, Reader in Medicine and Gastroenterology, Guy’s, King’s, and St Thomas’s Medical Schools, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9PJ, UK. BACKGROUND Diarrhoea in AIDS is associated with anorexia and ...

a Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, UK, b Gastroenterology Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK Dr R N Allan, Queen Elizabeth ...

Isotopic bile salt studies have been performed in 13 cholecystectomy patients and 10 matched controls using labelled taurocholate and deoxycholic acid. Cholecystectomy subjects have reduced pools of ...

While extensive previous references in the literature leave little doubt that disease in the posterior pararenal space can obliterate the psoas margin either in its entirety or in part, little work ...

a Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, b Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, ...

The Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Christine A Iacobuzio-Donahue, Associate Professor of Pathology, ...

Background: Antibodies to soluble liver antigen/liver pancreas (SLA/LP) are specific markers of autoimmune hepatitis. Their target antigen has recently been cloned. Aims: To establish standardised ...

The leucocyte migration inhibition (LMI) test was used as an indicator of cell mediated immunity to gluten fraction III in 30 healthy controls and 58 patients with adult coeliac disease and the ...

Introduction Delay in diagnosis of colorectal cancer (CRC) is associated with worse outcomes. Although studies have shown the incidence of CRC missed at endoscopy to be 2.5%-7.7% (Morris et al., 2014) ...

Introduction FIT (faecal immunochemical test) is recommended by NICE in the assessment of symptomatic patients who do not meet criteria for urgent suspected cancer referral. It can be a useful tool ...