Volume 25, No 3 (2012) | Annals of Gastroenterology

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Volume 25, No 3 (2012)

Published: 2012-06-26

Table of contents

Editorial (by invitation only)

Gastrointestinal symptoms among ambulatory HIV patients: appropriate symptom management requires improved symptom recognition

Theodoros Kelesidis

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In Memoriam

Elias Phocas MD (1930-2012)

Ioannis C. Danielides

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Invited Reviews

Epidemiology of intrafamilial inflammatory bowel disease throughout Europe

MarÃa Teresa Arias Loste, Beatriz Castro, Montserrat Rivero, Javier Crespo

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Intestinal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease: natural history and surveillance guidelines

Vicent Hernandez, Juan Clofent

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Surgical treatment in familial adenomatous polyposis

Vera N. Tudyka, Susan K. Clark

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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis: the therapeutic challenge of a global epidemic

Marialena Mouzaki, Johane Allard

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Non-invasive assessment of liver fibrosis

Vasilios Papastergiou, Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Andrew K. Burroughs

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Innate immunity: a new chapter for hepatitis C

Theresa Hydes, Salim I. Khakoo

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History in Gastroenterology

Imperforate anus and perianal fistula in Ancient Greek medical writings

Greogory Tsoukalas, Fotini Gentimi, Antonis A. Kousoulis, Marianna Karamanou, George Androutsos

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Original Articles

Prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms among ambulatory HIV patients and a control population

Tamara Thompson, Michael G. Lee, Tanya Clarke, Mike Mills, Gillian Wharfe

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Thiopurine methyltransferase genotype and thiopurine S-methyltransferase activity in Greek children with inflammatory bowel disease

Maria Gazouli, Ioanna Pachoula, Ioanna Panayotou, Georgios Chouliaras, Nicholas P. Anagnou, George Chroussos, Eleftheria Roma

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Sodium handling is associated with liver function impairment and renin-aldosterone axis activity in patients with preascitic cirrhosis without hyponatremia

Dimitris Tzamouranis, Alexandra Alexopoulou, Spyros P. Dourakis, George S. Stergiou

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Images of the Month

Hemostatic bitherapy for spurting bleeding

Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Dimitrios E. Sigounas, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou, Epameinondas V. Tsianos

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Bleeding colonic spider angioma

Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Dimitrios E. Sigounas, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou, Epameinondas V. Tsianos

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Double major papilla: a very rare endoscopic picture

Panagiotis Katsinelos, Stergios Gkagkalis, Grigoris Chatzimavroudis, Kostas Fasoulas

260
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Acute pulmonary embolism following N-butyl-cyanoacrylate endoscopic injection sclerotherapy

Nikolaos E. Papiamonis, Erminia Matrella, Emmanuel G. Blevrakis, Elias A. Kouroumalis

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Case Reports

Jodhpur disease revisited: a rare cause of severe protein energy malnutrition

Mukul Aggarwal, Vikrant Sood, Abhishek Kumar, Kumar Saurabh

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Intramural hematoma of the ascending colon leading to intraperitoneal hemorrhage: a possible post-polypectomy complication

Evangelos Voudoukis, Konstantinos G Spiridakis, Konstantinos Karmiris, Georgios Georgiou, Nikolaos Kontopodis, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Konstantinos Psilakis, Odysseas Miliadis, Georgios Tribonias, Gregorios A. Paspatis

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Possible Strongyloides stercoralis infection diagnosed by videocapsule endoscopy in an immunocompetent patient with devastating diarrhea

Dimitrios Xouris, Irene Vafiadis-Zoumbulis, Kostis Papaxoinis, Georgios Bamias, George Karamanolis, Janis Vlachogiannakos, Spiros D. Ladas

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Obscure gastrointestinal bleeding persisting for a decade: a rare manifestation of a common disease

Surinder S. Rana, Vishal Sharma, Chalapathi Rao, Kartar Singh, Deepak K. Bhasin

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Clinical Opinions

Chemotherapy options in elderly and frail patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Muhammad Wasif Saif

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Cardiovascular disease in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Konstantinos Kantartzis, Norbert Stefan

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Letter to the Editor

Cholangitis in a patient with hepatic hydatidosis

Xingshun Qi, Guohong Han, Wengang Guo, Daiming Fan

278
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