Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly revolutionized healthcare, particularly in diagnosing and treating Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and various digestive ailments. Vital AI ...

Conventional white-light endoscopy has high interobserver variability for the diagnosis of gastric precancerous conditions. Here we present a deep-learning (DL) approach for the diagnosis of atrophic ...

Objective To compare efficacy of pharmacotherapies for chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC) based on comparisons to placebo using Bayesian network meta-analysis. Data sources We conducted searches ...

Background Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a life-threatening syndrome involving dysfunction of multiple immune cell ...

Objectives To investigate the occurrence of postinfectious IBS in routine outpatient care, comparing different types of GI infection and its interaction with psychosomatic comorbidity. Design ...

BACKGROUND Steatorrhoea is associated with increased faecal loss of calcium and magnesium. Medium chain C8-C10 triglycerides (MCTs) improve fat absorption in patients with small bowel resections but ...

Background: Recent data have outlined a relationship between the composition of the intestinal microflora and allergic inflammation, and demonstrated the competence of probiotics in downregulation of ...

The role of stress in the modulation of the most common gastrointestinal disorders has traditionally been considered a domain of psychology, and has frequently been lumped together with the role of ...

Objective We developed a validated index for assessing histological disease activity in UC and established its responsiveness. Methods Two hundred biopsies were scored. The outcome was the Global ...

Background —Gut translocation of bacteria has been shown in both animal and human studies. Evidence from animal studies that links bacterial translocation to the development of postoperative sepsis ...

We read with great interest the systematic review and network meta-analysis on pharmacological treatments for opioid-induced constipation (OIC).1 Based on 27 randomised controlled trials (RCTs, 9149 ...

An endoscopical and histological study was carried out in 114 patients, treated by 'curative' resection of the terminal ileum and part of the colon for Crohn's disease, in order to study the natural ...