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Outlet Dysfunction is Prevalent in Severe Functional Bloating: A Prospective, Multicentre, Italian Study

Our research objective was to investigate the relationship between the defecation pattern, the severity of bloating, and the abdominal girth changes in…

Non-Cardiac Chest Pain: A Review of Environmental Exposure-Associated Comorbidities and Biomarkers

The prevalence of non-cardiac chest pain (NCCP) ranges from 13–33%. A majority of those presenting with a chief complaint of chest pain are found to have…

Pathology and Pathogenesis of Radiation Bowel Disease: Histopathological Appraisal in the Clinical Setting

Over the last half century, radiotherapy has been established as a very effective treatment modality for solid tumours. Large numbers of patients…

Safety and Rate of Delayed Adverse Events with Lumen-Apposing Metal Stents for Pancreatic Fluid Collections: A Multicentre Study

Endoscopic transmural drainage of symptomatic pancreatic fluid collections (PFC) using lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) has become common practice…

Prevention of Infantile Colic Using Probiotics

Infantile colic is a frustrating impasse that affects up to 20% of infants. Even though its pathogenesis is currently unknown, some…

Acetic Acid-Guided Biopsies Versus Mapping Biopsies for Barrett’s Surveillance: The ABBA Study

Barrett’s surveillance currently involves untargeted mapping biopsies; however, this procedure can still miss certain pathologies…

A New Hope for Proteinuria Characterised Kidney Diseases

Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is a rare kidney disease, characterised by proteinuria, and is estimated to affect around 40,000 people in the…

Improving Donated Kidney Use

Procurement biopsies are commonly used to assess the health of a donated organ and predict the success of a transplant procedure, but new research…

The First Whole-Body Scanner Has Been Revealed

Explorer, the world’s first entire-body three-dimensional scanner was unveiled at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meeting in November…

Nanostructures Shield the Kidneys from Oxidative Stress

“This represents a new horizon for DNA nanotechnology research,” announced Dr Hao Yan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, upon…