Volume 31, No 6 (2018)

Invited Review

Gastroesophageal reflux disease, functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome: common overlapping gastrointestinal disorders

Nicola de Bortoli, Salvatore Tolone, Marzio Frazzoni, Irene Martinucci, Giulia Sgherri, Eleonora Albano, Linda Ceccarelli, Cristina Stasi, Massimo Bellini, Vincenzo Savarino, Edoardo V. Savarino, Santino Marchi

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Review Articles

Alcohol and narcotics use in inflammatory bowel disease

George Mantzouranis, Eleni Albani, Eleftheria Fafliora, Maria Saridi, Athina Tatsioni, George Glanztounis, Eleni Albani, Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou

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Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma: clinical aspects, and therapeutic perspectives

Stergios Boussios, Michele Moschetta, Afroditi Karathanasi, Alexandros K. Tsiouris, Foivos S. Kanellos, Konstantina Tatsi, Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou

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Impact of direct-acting antiviral agents on the development of hepatocellular carcinoma: evidence and pathophysiological issues

Maria Tampaki, Spiros Savvanis, John Koskinas

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Meta-Analysis

High-frequency miniprobe endoscopic ultrasonography for evaluation of indeterminate esophageal strictures

Surinder Singh Rana, Ravi Sharma, Rajesh Gupta

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Efficacy of bio-optimized extracts of turmeric and essential fennel oil on the quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

Agostino Di Ciaula, Piero Portincasa, Nathalie Maes, Adelin Albert

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Small bowel bleeding in patients with left ventricular assist device: outcomes of conservative therapy versus balloon‑assisted enteroscopy

Badr Al-Bawardy, Sarah D. Schettle, Emmanuel Gorospe, Louis M. Wong Kee Song, Naveen L. Pereira, Jeffrey A. Alexander, David H. Bruining, Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, Jeff L. Fidler, William J. Mauermann, David W. Barbara, Ross Dierkhising, Elizabeth Rajan

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Panitumumab in combination with modified docetaxel/ cisplatin/5-fluorouracil as first-line treatment in gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas: a multicenter phase II study by the Hellenic Oncology Research Group

Nikolaos Kentepozidis, Panayiota Economopoulou, Michael Liontos, Athanasios Kotsakis, Ioannis Boukovinas, Nikolaos Vardakis, Emmanouil Kontopodis, Efthimios Prinarakis, Teressa Skaltsi, John Souglakos, Vassilis Georgoulias

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Interleukin-17A and B-cell activating factor in chronic hepatitis C patients with or without asymptomatic mixed cryoglobulinemia: effects of antiviral treatment and correlations with vitamin D

Polydoros Konstantinides, Alexandra Alexopoulou, Emilia Hadziyannis, Theoni Kanellopoulou, Spyros P. Dourakis

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A genotype-specific baseline score predicts post-treatment response to peginterferon alfa-2a in hepatitis B e antigen-negative chronic hepatitis B

Pietro Lampertico, Diethelm Messinger, Markus Cornberg, Maurizia Brunetto, Jörg Petersen, Patrick Kennedy, Tarik Asselah, Vivien Rothe, Antonietta Caputo, Georgios Bakalos, Vedran Pavlovic, George V. Papatheodoridis

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Liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma with live donors or extended criteria donors: a propensity score-matched comparison

Georgios C. Sotiropoulos, Eleftherios Spartalis, Nikolaos Machairas, Andreas Paul, Massimo Malago, Markus Neuhäuser

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Management of anastomotic biliary stricture after liver transplantation: metal versus plastic stent

Antonio Facciorusso, Elena Cecilia Rosca, Adewale Ashimi, Kenneth C. Ugoeze, Utkarsha Pathak, Vanessa Infante, Nicola Muscatiello

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Endoscopic ultrasound-guided transmural drainage by cauterytipped lumen-apposing metal stent: exploring the possible indications

Andrea Anderloni, Milena Di Leo, Silvia Carrara, Alessandro Fugazza, Roberta Maselli, Andrea Buda, Arnaldo Amato, Francesco Auriemma, Alessandro Repici

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Comparing endoscopic ultrasound-guided core biopsies of solid pancreatic and extrapancreatic lesions: a large single-operator experience with a new fine-needle biopsy needle

Abdul Haseeb, Linda Jo Taylor, Douglas G. Adler

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Current views

Medical hypothesis: speculating on the pathogenesis of acute diverticulitis

Angelo Zullo

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Images of the Month

Refractory bleeding due to duodenal varices

Timothy S Krill, Obada Tayyem, Arya Bagherpour

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Hip orthopedic material presenting as an unusual rectal foreign body

Noelle Asmar, Guillaume Perrod, Gabriel Rahmi, Christophe Cellier

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Unusual Polypoidal Mass Lesion in the Rectum

Surinder Singh Rana, Rajender Kumar Basher, Ravi Kumar Sharma, Rajesh Gupta

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Table of contents

Invited Review

Review Articles

Meta-Analysis

Current views

Images of the Month