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Hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have rarely been studied because they rarely accept interferon-based therapy (IBT) and have been difficult to follow up. We investiga...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:99
Published on: 16 August 2017
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As prognosis of patients with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is mainly determined by intrahepatic HCC progression, local treatment with TACE may result in improved OS, although it is not recommended...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:98
Published on: 10 August 2017
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Glutathione plays crucial roles in the detoxification and antioxidant systems of cells and has been used to treat acute poisoning and chronic liver diseases by intravenous injection. This is a first study exam...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:96
Published on: 8 August 2017
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Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) aid therapeutic decision making in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who lose response to anti-TNF therapy. Our aim was to evaluate the frequency and predictive f...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:97
Published on: 8 August 2017
Case report
“Lichenoid esophagitis” is a descriptive term for a lichenoid pattern of inflammation in the esophagus for which a precise histologic diagnosis cannot be established. The differential diagnosis includes lichen...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:95
Published on: 8 August 2017
Research article
Dental erosion (DE), one of oral hard tissue diseases, is one of the extraoesophageal symptoms defined as the Montreal Definition and Classification of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). However, no study...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:92
Published on: 7 August 2017
Case report
Occurrence of metastatic cancer to the stomach is rare, particularly in patients with prostate cancer. Gastric metastasis generally presents as a solitary and submucosal lesion with a central depression.
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:93
Published on: 7 August 2017
Case report
We report a unique case of a superficial esophageal cancer arising in a single diverticulum, diagnosed with magnifying image-enhanced endoscopy and then successfully treated by endoscopic submucosal dissection...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:94
Published on: 7 August 2017
Case report
Follicular nodular hyperplasia (FNH) is a common benign liver tumor for which conservative management is indicated. Surgical or interventional management is indicated in symptomatic cases. Transarterial emboli...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:91
Published on: 1 August 2017
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This study examined whether the densities of stem- and enteroendocrine cell progenitors are abnormal in the ileum of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and whether any abnormalities in ileal enteroe...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:90
Published on: 1 August 2017
Case report
Dieulafoy’s lesion (DL) is one of the rare causes of upper gastrointestional bleeding. This disease is characterized by small sub-mucosal arteriole that eroded the stomach mucosa and cause severe upper GI blee...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:89
Published on: 31 July 2017
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The aim of this study is to assess the validity of the measurement of pepsinogen as a screening test for chronic atrophic gastritis (AG) in health check-up populations in China.
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:88
Published on: 20 July 2017
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The previously reported prevalence of gastric heterotopia in the cervical esophagus, also termed inlet patch (IP), varies substantially, ranging from 0.18 to 14%. Regarding cases with adenocarcinoma within IP,...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:87
Published on: 12 July 2017
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BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:86
Published on: 7 July 2017
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The risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) varies around the world and between females and males. We aimed to compare the risk of CRC among immigrants to Ontario, Canada, to its general population.
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:85
Published on: 6 July 2017
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Gastric premalignant conditions, atrophic gastritis (AG) and intestinal metaplasia (IM) are characterized by an increase of proliferation and a reduction of apoptosis in epithelial cells. The epithelial cell k...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:84
Published on: 29 June 2017
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Controversies persist regarding the effect of prokinetics for the treatment of functional dyspepsia (FD). This study aimed to assess the comparative efficacy of prokinetic agents for the treatment of FD.
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:83
Published on: 26 June 2017
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During weaning, babies and young animal often experience diarrhea from food intolerance and/or decreasing levels of maternal antibodies, and diarrhea tends to be particularly severe during the early-weaned per...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:82
Published on: 21 June 2017
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This study aimed to investigate potential miRNAs and genes associated with the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:81
Published on: 20 June 2017
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Obesity is a growing epidemic around the world, and obese patients are generally regarded as high risk for surgery compared with normal weight patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence ...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:78
Published on: 19 June 2017
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Underlying causes in Chinese children with recurrent acute liver failure (RALF), including liver crises less than full acute liver failure, are incompletely understood. We sought to address this by searching f...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:77
Published on: 19 June 2017
Case report
Ustekinumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody against the p40 subunit of interleukin (IL) 12 and 23 which is involved in the pathogenesis of several inflammatory diseases. Ustekinumab is approved for psoria...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:80
Published on: 19 June 2017
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Recently, it is reported that asparagine synthetase (ASNS) is an independent predictor of surgical survival in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients. It is also reported that activating transcription factor ...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:79
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research article
Survivin, a member of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family, regulates mitosis and chromosome segregation. The expression of survivin proceeds during embryonic development and in addition has already...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:76
Published on: 14 June 2017
Research article
Sclerosing mesenteritis (SM) is sometimes used as an umbrella-term for idiopathic inflammatory conditions in the mesentery. Mesenteric panniculitis (MP) is a radiological finding and its relation to clinical S...
BMC Gastroenterology 2017 17:75
Published on: 13 June 2017
