Volume 27, No 1 (2014)

Editorial (by invitation only)

Screening patients for gastric cancer: art and science are better together

Noriya Uedo

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Invited Reviews

Capsule endoscopy in patients with cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and left heart assist devices

Dirk Bandorski, Reinhard HÃ¶ltgen, Dominik Stunder, Martin Keuchel

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Molecular genetics of colorectal cancer

Julie Bogaert, Hans Prenen

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The clinical significance of occult HBV infection

Giovanni Squadrito, Rosaria Spinella, Giovanni Raimondo

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Beta-blockers in liver cirrhosis

Valerio Giannelli, Barbara Lattanzi, Ulrich Thalheimer, Manuela Merli

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Review

Gastric MALT lymphoma: old and new insights

Angelo Zullo, Cesare Hassan, Lorenzo Ridola, Alessandro Repici, Raffaele Manta, Alessandro Andriani

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Original Articles

MARK's Quadrant scoring system: a symptom-based targeted screening tool for gastric cancer

Mahadevan D. Tata, Ramesh Gurunathan, Kandasami Palayan

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Factors predicting early discharge and mortality in post-percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy patients

Vivek V. Gumaste, Kalyan R. Bhamidimarri, Raghav Bansal, Lovleen Sidhu, Joel Baum, Aaron Walfish

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Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with liver cirrhosis: prevalence and association with portal hypertensive gastropathy

Shanid Abdul Sathar, Sojan George Kunnathuparambil, Srijaya Sreesh, Premaletha Narayanan, Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar

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Significance of the 13C-caffeine breath test for patients with cirrhosis

Dimitrios Konstantinou, Ekaterini Margariti, Emilia Hadziyannis, Dimitrios Pectasides, George V. Papatheodoridis

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Bilirubin, aspartate aminotransferase and platelet count score: a novel score for differentiating patients with chronic hepatitis B with acute flare from acute hepatitis B

Sojan George Kunnathuparambil, Kattoor Ramakrishnan Vinayakumar, Mahesh R. Varma, Rony Thomas, Premaletha Narayanan, Srijaya Sreesh

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Risk factors for therapeutic ERCP-related complications: an analysis of 2,715 cases performed by a single endoscopist

Panagiotis Katsinelos, Georgia Lazaraki, Grigoris Chatzimavroudis, Stergios Gkagkalis, Ioannis Vasiliadis, Apostolos Papaeuthimiou, Sotiris Terzoudis, Ioannis Pilpilidis, Christos Zavos, Jannis Kountouras

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Images of the Month

Endoscopic submucosal dissection in the West: difficult but not impossible

Stefanos Basioukas, Dimitrios Xinopoulos

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Recurrent bilateral pleural effusions without ascites as an initial presentation of Budd-Chiari syndrome

Shiv K. Desai, Badr F. Al-Bawardy, Cadman Leggett, Emmanuel C. Gorospe

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Incidentally detected polycystic kidney and Caroli's disease

Shiran Shetty, Salil Pandey, Venkatakrishnan Leelakrishnan

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Case Reports

Polycystic liver disease presenting as pruritus

Deepak Kochummen Johnson, Shihab Panchili, Sandesh Kolasseri, Ramachandran Thazhath Mavali

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Diffuse Caroli's disease with atypical presentation: a case report

MaÃra Lima Acioli, Lawrence Raizama GonÃ§alves Costa, MÃ´nica Souza de Miranda Henriques

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A young lady with post-partum jaundice and right upper quadrant lump abdomen: an unusual etiology

Amitava Goswami, Narendra Bhargava, Sunil Dadhich, Kirti Rana Chaturvedi

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Clinical Opinions

Clinical outcomes of endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer in the remnant stomach after gastrectomy

Sun Moon Kim

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The benefit-risk consideration in long-term use of alternate-day, low dose aspirin: focus on colorectal cancer prevention

Seong Eun Kim

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Letter to the Editor

Benign gastric outlet obstruction by a large phytobezoar

Ioannis Andreadis, Georgios Chrisakopoulos, Konstantina Papadaki, Vassilios Tzias

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A GIST or not a GIST? That is the question

Nikolaos Vasilios Chrysanthos, Vasiliki Xiromeritou, Nikolaos Sfougatakis, Ioannis Karoumpalis

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Helicobacter pylori and portal hypertensive gastropathy: any new information?

Angelo Zullo, Cesare Hassan, Lorenzo Ridola, Vincenzo De Francesco

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Author's reply

Shanid Abdul Sathar

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Table of contents

Editorial (by invitation only)

Invited Reviews

Review

Original Articles

Images of the Month

Case Reports

Clinical Opinions

Letter to the Editor