Patients with inflammatory bowel disease(IBD)may have an increased risk of venous thrombosis(VTE).PubMed,ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus were searched to identi
Fecal microbiota transplantation(FMT)is considered to be a highly successful therapy for recurrent and refractory Clostridium difficile infection(CDI)based on r
AIM:To investigate the efficacy of adding prokinetics to proton pump inhibitors(PPIs)for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease(GERD).METHODS:PubMed,C
The mechanisms that regulate disease progression during hepatitis C virus(HCV)infection and the response to treatment are not clearly identified.Numerous studie
Molecularly targeted therapeutic agents are constantly being developed and have been shown to be effective in various clinical trials.One group of representativ
The laparoscopic technique was introduced in gastrointestinal surgery in the mid 1980s.Since then,the development of this technique has been extraordinary.Trigg
Despite declining incidence,gastric cancer remains one of the most common cancers worldwide.Early detection in population-based screening programs has increased
Carcinogenesis is a multistep process that requires the accumulation of various genetic and epigenetic aberrations to drive the progressive malignant transforma