Volume 31, No 4 (2018)

Invited Reviews

Gastrointestinal diseases during pregnancy: what does the gastroenterologist need to know?

Catarina Frias Gomes, Mónica Sousa, Inês Lourenço, Diana Martins, Joana Torres

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Small bowel imaging in Crohn’s disease patients

James Gauci, Lara Sammut, Martina Sciberras, Naomi Piscopo, Kristian Micallef, Kelvin Cortis, P Ellul

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Human taeniasis/cysticercosis: a potentially emerging parasitic disease in Europe

Isaia Symeonidou, Konstantinos Arsenopoulos, Dimitrios Tzilves, Barbara Soba, Sarah Gabriël, Elias Papadopoulos

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Review Articles

Is top-down therapy a more effective alternative to conventional step-up therapy for Crohn’s disease?

Jonathan Jenkin Tsui, Hien Q. Huynh

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Efficacy and safety of lumen-apposing metal stent for benign gastrointestinal stricture

Deepanshu Jain, Upen Patel, Sara Ali, Abhinav Sharma, Manan Shah, Shashideep Singhal

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Gastrointestinal and biliary granular cell tumor: diagnosis and management

Mohamed Barakat, Abdullah Abu Kar, Seyedmohammad Pourshahid, Sanaz Ainechi, Hwa Jeong Lee, Mohamed Othman, Micheal Tadros

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Occupation-associated health hazards for the gastroenterologist/ endoscopist

Emmanuel Ofori, Daryl Ramai, Febin John, Madhavi Reddy, Vishal Ghevariya

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Original Articles

Can the upper esophageal sphincter contractile integral help classify achalasia?

Tania Triantafyllou, Charalampos Theodoropoulos, Apostolos Mantides, Demosthenis Chrysikos, Spyridon Smparounis, Konstantinos Filis, Georgios Zografos, Dimitrios Theodorou

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Artificial intelligence diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection using blue laser imaging-bright and linked color imaging: a single-center prospective study

Hirotaka Nakashima, Hiroshi Kawahira, Hiroshi Kawachi, Nobuhiro Sakaki

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Differences in dietary habits between patients with inflammatory bowel disease in clinical remission and a healthy population

Mariabeatrice Principi, Giuseppe Losurdo, Andrea Iannone, Antonella Contaldo, Valentina Deflorio, Nunzio Ranaldo, Antonio Pisani, Enzo Ierardi, Alfredo Di Leo, Michele Barone

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Eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorder: is it what it seems to be?

Stefania Chetcuti Zammit, Monique Cachia, Karen Sapiano, Julia Gauci, Stephen Montefort, Pierre Ellul

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Hepatitis B virus reactivation in HBsAg-negative, anti-HBc-positive patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy: a systematic review

Evagelos Cholongitas, Anna-Bettina Haidich, Fani Apostolidou-Kiouti, Parthenis Chalevas, George V. Papatheodoridis

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Muscle fat infiltration assessed by total psoas density on computed tomography predicts mortality in cirrhosis

Maria Kalafateli, Andreas Karatzas, Georgios Tsiaoussis, Efstratios Koutroubakis, Paraskevi Tselekouni, Nikolaos Koukias, Christos Konstantakis, Stelios Assimakopoulos, Charalambos Gogos, Konstantinos Thomopoulos, Christina Kalogeropoulou, Christos Triantos

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A longitudinal analysis of the epidemiology and economic impact of inpatient admissions for chronic pancreatitis in the United States

Asim Shuja, Asad Ur Rahman, Wasseem Skef, Carmen Smotherman, Jian Guan, Miguel Malespin, Silvio W. de Melo Jr

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Clinical profile and treatment outcomes in autoimmune pancreatitis: a report from North India

Surinder S. Rana, Rajesh Gupta, Ritambhra Nada, Pankaj Gupta, Rajinder Basher, Bhagwat R. Mittal, Ravi Kumar Sharma, Amit Rawat

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Diagnostic accuracy of fine-needle aspiration of solid pancreatic lesions guided by endoscopic ultrasound elastography

Antonio Facciorusso, Matteo Martina, Rosario Vincenzo Buccino, Maurizio Cosimo Nacchiero, Nicola Muscatiello

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Images of the Month

Varioliform gastritis: an unusual endoscopic finding

Philipp Kasper, Heike Loeser, Tobias Goeser

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Diagnostic endoscopic mucosal resection is useful for diagnosing rectal tonsil

Dai Nakamatsu, Masashi Yamamoto, Tsutomu Nishida

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Underwater endoscopic mucosal resection for anal canal neoplasia in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus infection

Mami Hirai, Yasushi Yamasaki, Keita Harada, Hiroyuki Okada

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Case Series

Salvage endoscopic submucosal dissection for esophageal adenocarcinoma arising during radiofrequency ablation

Sarra Oumrani, Maximilien Barret, Frédéric Beuvon, Sarah Leblanc, Stanislas Chaussade, Frédéric Prat

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Table of contents

Invited Reviews

Review Articles

Original Articles

Images of the Month

Case Series