The treatment of long benign oesophageal strictures remains a clinical challenge. We present a novel endoscopic technique ...

Background and aims Quantifying systemic inflammation (SI) in acutely decompensated cirrhosis (ADC) is of major importance ...

Background Current treatments with tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors have limited efficacy for ...

We thank Dr Yang and colleagues for their interest in the HELIOS trial and their thoughtful appraisal of our findings.1 2 Yang et al highlight the possibility that heterogeneity in endoscopist ...

Background Recommendations for the first postpolypectomy surveillance colonoscopy (SC1), based on stratifying postpolypectomy colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, are well established. Limited data inform ...

Objective There is emerging evidence that the pancreas may be a target organ of SARS-CoV-2 infection. This aim of this study was to investigate the outcome of patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) and ...

Correspondence to: K R Palmer, Western General Hospital, Crewe Rd, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK; kpalmer{at}golf5063.freeserve.co.uk “Medline” and “EMBASE” were searched to identify the evidence used in ...

Background Prophylactic application of a haemostatic gel to the resection field may be an easy way to prevent delayed bleeding, a frequent complication after endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR).

Objective Acute non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (NVUGIB) is managed by standard endoscopic combination therapy, but a few cases remain difficult and carry a high risk of persistent or ...

Objectives The English Bowel Cancer Screening Programme invites 55 year olds for a sigmoidoscopy (Bowel Scope Screening (BSS)), aiming to resect premalignant polyps, thus reducing cancer incidence. A ...

Knowledge on SARS-CoV-2 infection and its resultant COVID-19 in liver diseases has rapidly increased during the pandemic. Hereby, we review COVID-19 liver manifestations and pathophysiological aspects ...

Objective Early disease prediction is challenging in acute pancreatitis (AP). Here, we prospectively investigate whether the microbiome predicts severity of AP (Pancreatitis—Microbiome As Predictor of ...