Correspondence to Dr Melina Arnold, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, Lyon 69008, France; arnoldm{at}fellows.iarc.fr Objective The ...

Background Intestinal fibrosis resulting in stricture formation and obstruction in Crohn’s disease (CD) and increased wall stiffness leading to symptoms in ulcerative colitis (UC) is among the largest ...

1 Department of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China 2 Genomic ...

Background—Peripheral arthropathy is a well-recognised complication of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Little is known of its natural history, but a variety of joint involvement has been described, ...

Correspondence to Dr Ikuo Hirano, Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 North Saint Clair, Suite 1400, Chicago, IL 60611, USA; i ...

Correspondence to: Dr G J Gores Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA; gores.gregorymayo.edu ...

Objective The significance of the liver-microbiome axis has been increasingly recognised as a major modulator of autoimmunity. The aim of this study was to take advantage of a large well-defined ...

Liver fibrosis should be assessed in all individuals with chronic liver disease as it predicts the risk of future liver-related morbidity and thus need for treatment, monitoring and surveillance.

Background Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) imposes a substantial global disease burden and is associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis. Our preliminary studies have shown that CD36 expression is positively ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 3 Department of Pathology ...

Background Behçet’s syndrome encompasses a cluster of chronic systemic vascular inflammatory conditions affecting multiple organs, with intestinal involvement termed intestinal Behçet’s disease. The ...

Introduction Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), including Crohn’s disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), is a chronic inflammatory condition with driven by genetic, immune, microbiome, and ...