Skip to main content

Articles

Page 38 of 85

  1. In the recent years two innovative approaches have become available for minimally invasive en bloc resections of large non-pedunculated rectal lesions (polyps and early cancers). One is Transanal Minimally Invasi...

    Authors: Nik Dekkers, Jurjen J. Boonstra, Leon M. G. Moons, Roel Hompes, Barbara A. Bastiaansen, Jurriaan B. Tuynman, Arjun D. Koch, Bas L. A. M. Weusten, Apollo Pronk, Peter A. Neijenhuis, Marinke Westerterp, Wilbert B. van den Hout, Alexandra M. J. Langers, Jolein van der Kraan, Alaa Alkhalaf, Jonathan Y. L. Lai…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:225
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  2. Recent studies have shown that bile acids (BAs) are closely related to metabolic and inflammatory diseases. Our study aimed to investigate whether circulating total bile acid (TBA) levels were associated with ...

    Authors: Xiaochun Xie, Jie Dong, Guotao Lu, Kun Gao, Xiaoyao Li, Wenjian Mao, Faxi Chen, Zhihui Tong, Baiqiang Li and Weiqin Li
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:222
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  3. Previous studies of the relationship between dietary factors and risk of diverticulosis have yielded inconsistent results. We therefore sought to investigate the association between consumption of fruit and ve...

    Authors: Benjamin Maxner, Jessica McGoldrick, Danielle Bellavance, Po-Hong Liu, Ramnik J. Xavier, Joseph C. Yarze, Rocco Ricciardi, Kyle Staller, Daniel C. Chung and Hamed Khalili
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:221
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Therapy targeting programmed death-1 or programmed death-1 ligand-1 (PD-1/PD-L1) has been developed for various solid malignant tumors, such as melanoma and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but this approac...

    Authors: Miku Obayashi, Yasushi Shibasaki, Toru Koakutsu, Yoshiro Hayashi, Tsuyoshi Shoji, Kazuhisa Hirayama, Masanori Yamazaki, Yasuhiro Takayanagi, Hiroshi Shibata, Masato Nakamura and Hirotoshi Maruo
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:220
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  6. There is no current standard rescue treatment for dual drug-resistant strains of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). This aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of rifabutin-based triple therapy for patie...

    Authors: Chia-Jung Kuo, Cheng-Yu Lin, Puo-Hsien Le, Pi-Yueh Chang, Chih-Ho Lai, Wey-Ran Lin, Ming-Ling Chang, Jun-Te Hsu, Hao-Tsai Cheng, Chi-Nan Tseng, Chun-Jung Lin, Ming-Yao Su, Sen-Yung Hsieh and Cheng-Tang Chiu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:218
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is characterized by excessive hepatic fat accumulation. Some individuals frequently present elevated gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) levels without fatty liver ultrasound imag...

    Authors: Hideki Fujii, Haruna Doi, Tetsuhisa Ko, Taito Fukuma, Toru Kadono, Kohei Asaeda, Reo Kobayashi, Takahiro Nakano, Toshifumi Doi, Yoshikazu Nakatsugawa, Shinya Yamada, Takeshi Nishimura, Naoya Tomatsuri, Hideki Sato, Yusuke Okuyama, Hiroyuki Kimura…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:217
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. Gastroparesis is a recognized complication of diabetes but its pathogenic mechanism incompletely understood. Our aim was to determine whether HIF-1α and VEGF are secreted from gastric tissue is a fundamental f...

    Authors: Xueping Wu, Zhifang Yang, Zhihong Li, Ling Yang, Xinyan Wang, Congrong Wang and Jun Gu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:216
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide with an inferior prognosis. In Indonesia, the average life expectancy is les...

    Authors: Chyntia Olivia Maurine Jasirwan, Alessa Fahira, Lianda Siregar and Imelda Loho
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:215
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Periampullary adenocarcinoma is a major clinical problem in high-risk patients including FAP population. A recent modification for visualizing the ampulla of Vater (AV) involves attaching a cap to the tip of t...

    Authors: Leonardo Correa Silva, Rondinelle Martins Arruda, Paula Fortuci Resende Botelho, Leonardo Nogueira Taveira, Kelly Menezio Giardina, Marco Antonio de Oliveira, Julia Dias, Cleyton Zanardo Oliveira, Gilberto Fava and Denise Peixoto Guimarães
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:214
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  11. Although endoscopic resection is safe and effective for gastric epithelial neoplasms, information is limited on its efficacy and safety in extremely elderly patients who have various comorbidities. Further, th...

    Authors: Sunmin Kim, Dong Hyun Kim, Seon-Young Park, Chang Hwan Park, Hyun Soo Kim, Sung Kyu Choi and Jong Sun Rew
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:213
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. To evaluate an innovative open necrosectomy strategy with continuous positive drainage and prophylactic diverting loop ileostomy for the management of late infected pancreatic necrosis (LIPN).

    Authors: Dong-Guang Niu, Wei-Qin Li, Qian Huang, Fan Yang, Wei-Liang Tian, Chen Li, Lian-An Ding, Hong-Chun Fang and Yun-Zhao Zhao
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:212
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Real-world comparisons of biologic treatment outcomes for ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease (CD) patients are limited. We sought to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of vedolizumab (VDZ) and anti-...

    Authors: Ulf Helwig, Michael Mross, Stefan Schubert, Heinz Hartmann, Alina Brandes, Dara Stein, Christian Kempf, Jana Knop, Sarah Campbell-Hill and Robert Ehehalt
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:211
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. Animal models of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are important tools in preclinical research and drug discovery. Gubra-Amylin NASH (GAN) diet-induced obese (DIO) mice represent a model of fibrosing NASH. ...

    Authors: Henrik H. Hansen, Helene M. Ægidius, Denise Oró, Simon S. Evers, Sara Heebøll, Peter Lykke Eriksen, Karen Louise Thomsen, Anja Bengtsson, Sanne S. Veidal, Michel Feigh, Malte P. Suppli, Filip K. Knop, Henning Grønbæk, Diego Miranda, James L. Trevaskis, Niels Vrang…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:210
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Functional dyspepsia (FD), belching disorders (BD) and functional heartburn (FH) are the three most common upper functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) in IBS patients. FD is known to exert deleterious e...

    Authors: Xin Yao, Yunsheng Yang, Shutian Zhang, Yu Shi, Qian Zhang and Yongjun Wang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:209
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  16. Primary hyperoxaluria (PH) is an inherited disease lacking of hepatic oxalic acid metabolic enzymes which could lead to irreverisible renal damage. Currently, liver–kidney transplantation is a curative but hig...

    Authors: Jie Xiang, Zheng Chen, Fangshen Xu, Shengmin Mei, Zhiwei Li, Jie Zhou, Yinlei Dong, Yangjun Gu, Zhichao Huang and Zhenhua Hu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:208
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Recurrence risk is a major concern after endoscopic resection (ER) of gastric neoplasms. This study was to compare metachronous risk in patients with and without synchronous neoplasms after complete ER.

    Authors: Ga-Yeong Shin, Hye Jin Cho, Jae Myung Park, Chul-Hyun Lim, Yu Kyung Cho and Myung-Gyu Choi
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:206
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), radiofrequency ablation (RFA), and iodine 125 seeds implantation are optional treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study is to compare the effi...

    Authors: Lei Chen, Xuefeng Kan, Tao Sun, Yanqiao Ren, Yanyan Cao, Liangliang Yan, Bin Liang, Bin Xiong and Chuansheng Zheng
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:205
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Adult lactase non-persistence (LNP) is due to low lactase expression, resulting in lactose malabsorption (LM). LNP is a genetic trait, but is typically determined by LM markers including breath H2, blood glucose,...

    Authors: Aahana Shrestha, Matthew P. G. Barnett, Jo K. Perry, David Cameron-Smith and Amber M. Milan
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:204
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  21. Tacrolimus (TAC) is a powerful remission-inducing drug for refractory ulcerative colitis (UC). However, it is unclear whether mucosal healing (MH) influences relapse after completion of TAC.We investigated whe...

    Authors: Ayumi Ito, Syun Murasugi, Teppei Omori, Shinichi Nakamura and Katsutoshi Tokushige
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:203
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. Undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells (UC-OGC) is an extremely uncommon pancreatic neoplasm that comprises less than 1% of all exocrine pancreatic tumors. To date, cases and data from who...

    Authors: Guangjian Yang, Jiangxia Yin, Kai Ou, Qiang Du, Wenhao Ren, Yujing Jin, Liming Peng and Lin Yang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:202
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  23. Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Thus, it is beneficial to preoperatively identify patients at high risk of developing SSI. The primary ...

    Authors: Wikran Suragul, Narongsak Rungsakulkij, Watoo Vassanasiri, Pongsatorn Tangtawee, Paramin Muangkaew, Somkit Mingphruedhi and Suraida Aeesoa
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:201
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  24. To compare the outcomes of modified endoscopic mucosal resection (m-EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and evaluate the value of endoscopic morphology class...

    Authors: Xiang-Yao Wang, Ning-Li Chai, En-Qiang Linghu, Shao-Tian Qiu, Long-Song Li, Jia-Le Zou, Jing-Yuan Xiang and Xing-Xing Li
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:200
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for severe obesity. It also ameliorates diabetes independently of weight loss through mechanisms that are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the le...

    Authors: Khalid Al-Regaiey, Suad Alshubrami, Ibrahim Al-Beeshi, Torki Alnasser, Abdulnasser Alwabel, Hassan Al-Beladi, Omar Al-Tujjar, Abdulrahman Alnasser, Assim A. Alfadda and Muhammad Iqbal
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:199
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  26. To investigate the effect of albumin infusion on cirrhotic patients admitted for acute gastrointestinal bleeding.

    Authors: Zhu Wang, Ya-Wen Xie, Qing Lu, Hai-Lin Yan, Xin-Bin Liu, Yi Long, Xian Zhang and Jin-Lin Yang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:198
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  27. Whipple’s disease is a rare systemic disease caused by a gram-positive bacillus called Tropheryma whipplei. First described in 1907 as an intestinal lipodystrophy with histological finding of vacuoles in the m...

    Authors: Margarita Rey R., Luis Alejandro Orozco, Katherine Marrugo, Rocio López, Erika D. Pérez-Riveros, José De la Hoz-Valle and Fernando Sierra-Arango
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:197
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  28. Placement of nasogastric (NG) tubes is a common procedure for patients especially in intensive care units (ICUs). Thus, it is important to determine the correct placement of the tube to prevent misplacement in...

    Authors: Elahe Heidarzadi, Rostam Jalali, Behzad Hemmatpoor and Nader Salari
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:196
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. En-bloc resection of large, flat dysplastic mucosal lesions of the luminal GI tract can be challenging. In order to improve the efficacy of resection for lesions ≥2 cm and to optimize R0 resection rates of les...

    Authors: A. Sportes, Jung CFM, M. A. Gromski, P. Koehler, A. Seif Amir Hosseini, P. Kauffmann, V. Ellenrieder and E. Wedi
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:195
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  30. Selective deep biliary cannulation is the first and the most important step before further biliary therapy. Transpancreatic sphincterotomy (TPS), and needle knife fistulotomy (NKF) were commonly used in patien...

    Authors: Kai-Shun Liang, Chieh-Chang Chen, Wei-Chih Liao, Yu-Ting Kuo, Liang-Wei Tseng, Wen-Tsung He and Hsiu-Po Wang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  31. Recently, a new international bleeding score was developed to predict 30-day hospital mortality in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB). However, the efficacy of this newly developed scoring sy...

    Authors: Min Seong Kim, Hee Seok Moon, In Sun Kwon, Jae Ho Park, Ju Seok Kim, Sun Hyung Kang, Jae Kyu Sung, Eaum Seok Lee, Seok Hyun Kim, Byung Seok Lee and Hyun Yong Jeong
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:193
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  32. Studies have suggested that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the available data on this association are inconsistent. This meta-analy...

    Authors: Yi Chen, Lang Chen, Changsheng Xing, Guangtong Deng, Furong Zeng, Tingting Xie, Lei Gu and Huixiang Yang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:192
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  33. Constipation is often self-managed by patients and guidelines are available to aid healthcare professionals in the counseling of patients for self-management. Therefore, we have explored the knowledge and atti...

    Authors: Marion Eberlin, Sabine Landes, Doerthe Biber-Feiter and Martin C. Michel
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:191
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. Non Helicobacter pylori gastric Helicobacters (NHPGHs) are associated with a range of upper gastrointestinal symptoms, histologic and endoscopic findings. For the first time in Iran, we performed a cross-sectiona...

    Authors: Shakiba Shafaie, Hami Kaboosi and Fatemeh Peyravii Ghadikolaii
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:190
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  35. Endoscopic biliary stenting by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the most common form of palliation for malignant hilar obstruction. However, ERCP in such cases is associated with a risk...

    Authors: Wen-hui Zhang, Peng-peng Ding, Lei Liu, Yan-ling Wang, Wen-hui Lai, Jing-jing Han, Jun Han and Han-wei Li
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:189
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  36. Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a clinic syndrome with substantial high short-term mortality. It is very important to stratify patients according to prognosis to decide management strategy. This study...

    Authors: Cuicui Xiao, Jiao Gong, Shuguang Zhu, Zhiwei Zhang, Sujuan Xi, Yutian Chong, Yusheng Jie and Qi Zhang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:188
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Gut microbiota alterations including small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) might play a role in pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Rifaximin could effectively and safely improve IBS symptom...

    Authors: Xiaojun Zhuang, Zhenyi Tian, Mei Luo and Lishou Xiong
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:187
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  38. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a key turning point during the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Recent studies have shown that serum miRNA tests may be effective in the diagnosis...

    Authors: Shengliang Xin, Qiao Zhan, Xiaofan Chen, Jinghang Xu and Yanyan Yu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:186
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  39. The prevalence of Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is increasing, a severe complication of EoE is spontaneous perforation of the oesophagus. It is of great importance to be aware of this risk and handle this sev...

    Authors: Helen Larsson and Stephen Attwood
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:185
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  40. Biliary decompression can reduce symptoms and improve quality of life in patients with malignant biliary obstruction. Endoscopically placed stents have become the standard of care for biliary drainage with the...

    Authors: Christopher Lawrence, Jose Nieto, Willis G. Parsons, André Roy, Nalini M. Guda, Stephen E. Steinberg, Muhammad K. Hasan, Juan Carlos Bucobo, Satish Nagula, Nicholas D. Dey and Jonathan M. Buscaglia
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:184
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. Intravenous iron replacement is recommended for iron-deficient patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but may be associated with hypophosphataemia, predisposing to osteomalacia and fractures. This stu...

    Authors: Wendy Fang, Rachel Kenny, Qurat-ul-Ain Rizvi, Lawrence P. McMahon and Mayur Garg
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:183
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare congenital disease characterized by multifocal venous malformations. It remains a considerable challenge in treating the gastrointestinal (GI) venous malformat...

    Authors: Yuemei Xu, Yingjie Wu, Zhenzhen Dai, Feizhen Xia and Feng Xu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:182
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  43. Cyanoacrylate alone or in combination with other interventions, can be used to achieve variable rates of success in preventing rebleeding. Our study aims to assess the pooled risk of gastric and esophageal var...

    Authors: Zixuan Hu, Decai Zhang, Joel Swai, Tao Liu and Shaojun Liu
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:181
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  46. Small bowel (SB) bleeding accounts for 5% of all gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding cases and 80% of obscure GI bleeding cases. Although angioectasia is the common etiology of SB bleeding, nonsteroidal anti-inflam...

    Authors: Doo-Ho Lim, Kyoungwon Jung, Seung Bum Lee, In Kyu Park, Hee Jeong Cha, Jae Ho Park, Byung Gyu Kim, Seok Won Jung, In Du Jeong, Jae Hyun Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Won Moon, Moo In Park and Seun Ja Park
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:178
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Indications and diagnostic yield of small-bowel video capsule endoscopy (SB-VCE) are communicated in recent clinical academic guidelines. However, guidelines are based mainly on relatively few, small, selectio...

    Authors: André Artan Kharazmi, Saeid Aslani, Malene Fey Kristiansen, Eva Efsen Dahl and Mark Berner-Hansen
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:177
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  48. Infection of Echinococcus multilocularis causes in humans the alveolar echinococcosis. Although the infection has world-wide distribution it is rarely detected. Diagnosis of alveococcosis is difficult because of ...

    Authors: Ł. Pielok, M. Karczewski, W. Cierach, P. Zmora, E. Lenartowicz and J. Stefaniak
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:176
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  49. Currently, side-by-side (SBS) and stent-in-stent (SIS) are the two main techniques for stent deployment to treat hilar biliary obstructions. Previous studies comparing these two techniques are very limited, an...

    Authors: Wei-Zhong Zhou, Sheng Liu, Zheng-Qiang Yang, Yu-Tao Xian, Hong-dou Xu, Jun-zheng Wu and Hai-Bin Shi
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:174
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  50. Abdominal pain in adults represents a wide range of illnesses, often warranting immediate intervention. This study is to fill the gap in the knowledge about incidence, presentation, causes and mortality from a...

    Authors: Kilalo M. Mjema, Hendry R. Sawe, Irene Kulola, Amour S. Mohamed, Erasto Sylvanus, Juma A. Mfinanga and Ellen J. Weber
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:173
    Content type: Research article Published on:
Submit manuscript

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.4 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.0 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.037 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.759 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    40 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    166 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    3,090,113 downloads
    2,444 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

Follow

New Content Item

Trending Articles

Click here to view which Articles have been shared the most this year!

BMC Gastroenterology

ISSN: 1471-230X

Contact us