Introduction Bowel dysfunction (BD) affects two thirds of patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), with constipation and incontinence often co-existing. Management is largely empirical; however, ...

Objective Chronic alcohol consumption is an important cause of liver-related deaths. Specific intestinal microbiota profiles are associated with susceptibility or resistance to alcoholic liver disease ...

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 ...

Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a common and preventable disease for which screening rates by colonoscopy remain unacceptably low. Our primary objective was to develop and validate a clinical ...

In an attempt to study the relative toxicity of anthraquinonic laxatives on intestinal mucosa, we compared in mice the effects of fruit pulp containing sennosides A and B with those of a free ...

a Pancreatic Research Group, Department of Gastroenterology, Prince of Wales Hospital and University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, b Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA Associate ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard C Pollok, Gastroenterology, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London SW17 0QT, UK; richard.pollok{at}nhs.net Objective Depression is a potential risk ...

Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan Dr M Noguchi, Third Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University School of Medicine, 1–1 Seiryo-Machi, ...

One hundred and eight patients with ileostomies were investigated for cholelithiasis at routine annual review in a large Ileostomy Clinic. Gallstones were demonstrated in 24-5%, which is three times ...

1 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Birmingham, Liver Biomedical Research Unit, Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Primary sclerosing ...

A report is made of the successful use of oral clonidine for proctalgia fugax by the author on himself. The author, a 30 year old otherwise healthy man, has been having attacks of proctalgia fugax for ...