Gastroenterology

Clostriodioides difficile infection (CDI) remains globally one of the major causes of hospital-acquired infection, with almost half a…

Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an inflammatory condition of the pancreas that represents one of the most common gastrointestinal cause for…

The end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries witnessed a remarkable change in human nutritional status. Prior to this…

Small bowel diverticula are sac-like pouchings of the small bowel wall that can occur throughout the small bowel. Small bowel diverticula are most often found in the duodenum, followed by jejunum and ileum. In fact, Akhrass et al.,1 in their retrospective review of 208 patients with symptomatic small bowel diverticulosis, found that diverticula were located in the duodenum in 79% of cases, in the jejunum or ileum in 18% of cases, and in all three segments in 3% of cases. The incidence of jejunoileal diverticula is variable, reported to occur in 0.5–2.3% of individuals in radiographic series and up to 7% in autopsy studies.2 Furthermore, 77% of cases demonstrate multiple, as opposed to solitary, diverticula.3 They are more commonly reported in males, with the highest incidence in the sixth and seventh decades of life.

This symposium considered the role that AI may play in the future management of patients with IBD. Firstly, Gionata Fiorino…

Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are an increasingly common finding. They are present in 1.2–2.6% of patients undergoing abdominal…

Coeliac disease is a disorder of the small intestine, which is characterised by mucosal inflammation, villous atrophy, and crypt hyperplasia, and occurs upon exposure to dietary gluten; the disease…

Despite the development of multiple biological therapies for Crohn’s disease (CD), remission rates at 1 year from individual agents are still only 30–50%…