Introduction Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is a progressive autoimmune mediated cholangiopathy. There are well recognised treatments for both the underlying disease and symptom control highlighted ...

Endoscopic retrograde laser lithotripsy of common bile duct stones is a new technique which can be carried out through the endoscope without anaesthesia using ordinary endoscopic equipment. In the ...

Objective Since December 2019, a newly identified coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)) has caused outbreaks of pneumonia in Wuhan, China. SARS-CoV-2 enters host ...

These guidelines aim to help clinicians manage patients who have had an intestinal resection that leaves a short length (about 2 m or less) of small bowel remaining. The preliminary guidelines were ...

Eldon Shaffer, MD, Professor and Head, Department of Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, 1403 29th Street NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 2T9, Canada. Email:eldon.shaffer{at}crha-health.ab.ca The term ...

Objective The involvement of HBV DNA integration in promoting hepatocarcinogenesis and the extent to which the intrahepatic HBV reservoir modulates liver disease progression remains poorly understood.

7 Fundación Pública Galega de Medicina Xenómica, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (IDIS), Centro de Investigación Biomédica ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul K S Chan, Department of Microbiology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; paulkschan{at}cuhk.edu.hk Methods Prevalence and relative abundances of ...

Correspondence to Professor Lee-Yan Sheen, Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan; lysheen{at}ntu.edu.tw and Professor Ming-Shiang Wu, Department of ...

Objective Dietary fibres are essential for maintaining microbial diversity and the gut microbiota can modulate host physiology by metabolising the fibres. Here, we investigated whether the soluble ...