Volume 30, No 6 (2017)

Invited Reviews

Drugs for improving esophageal mucosa defense: where are we now and where are we going?

Edoardo Savarino, Patrizia Zentilin, Elisa Marabotto, Gaia Pellegatta, Claudia Coppo, Matteo Brunacci, Pietro Dulbecco, Vincenzo Savarino

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Endoscopic management of colorectal adenomas

Benjamin Meier, Karel Caca, Andreas Fischer, Arthur Schmidt

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Review Articles

Risk factors for postoperative recurrence of Crohn's disease with emphasis on surgical predictors

Antonios Gklavas, Dionysios Dellaportas, Ioannis Papaconstantinou

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Current and future biomarkers in colorectal cancer

George Zarkavelis, Stergios Boussios, Alexandra Papadaki, Konstantinos H. Katsanos, Dimitrios K. Christodoulou, George Pentheroudakis

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Long non-coding RNA in pancreatic adenocarcinoma and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

Dimitrios Moschovis, Maria Gazouli, Maria Tzouvala, Antonios Vezakis, George Karamanolis

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Original Articles

Effects of probiotic-containing products on stool frequency and intestinal transit in constipated adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Larry E. Miller, Arthur C. Ouwehand, Alvin Ibarra

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Cap-assisted colonoscopy versus standard colonoscopy: is the cap beneficial? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Fazia A. Mir, Christine Boumitri, Imran Ashraf, Michelle L. Matteson-Kome, Douglas L. Nguyen, Srinivas R. Puli, Matthew L. Bechtold

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Long-term efficacy of vacuum-assisted therapy (Endo-SPONGEÂ®) in large anastomotic leakages following anterior rectal resection

Alessandro Mussetto, Rosario Arena, Andrea Buzzi, Lorenzo Fuccio, Silvia Dari, Mario Luciano Brancaccio, Omero Triossi

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The effectiveness of intravenous iron for iron deficiency anemia in gastrointestinal cancer patients: a retrospective study

Laurens Verhaeghe, Luk Bruyneel, Elisabeth Stragier, Marc Ferrante, Daan Dierickx, Hans Prenen

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Pilot study of the prevalence of binge eating disorder in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients

Jinyu Zhang, Omair Abbasi, Lev Malevanchik, Neena Mohan, Richard Dennicola, Nicholas Tarangelo, Dina Halegoua-De Marzio

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Obstetricians' and gynecologists' knowledge, education, and practices regarding chronic hepatitis B in pregnancy

Bolin Niu, Dina Halegoua-De Marzio, Jonathan M. Fenkel, Steven K. Herrine

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Cardiac dysfunction as an early predictor of portal hypertension in chronic hepatitis C

Cecilia Marconi, Mattia Bellan, Paola Giarda, Rosalba Minisini, Serena Favretto, Michela Emma Burlone, Lisa Franzosi, Mario Pirisi

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Sex-related differences in predicting choledocholithiasis using current American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy risk criteria

Ankit Chhoda, Deepanshu Jain, Shashideep Singhal

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Is complete mesocolic excision oncologically superior to conventional surgery for colon cancer? A retrospective comparative study

Christos Agalianos, Nikolaos Gouvas, Christos Dervenis, John Tsiaousis, George Theodoropoulos, Demetrios Theodorou, George Zografos, Evaghelos Xynos

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Images of the Month

Successful endoscopic treatment for gastric mural abscess due to fish bone migration

Masabumi Kaneko, Kyosuke Tanaka, Hiroaki Naota, Kazuhiko Kobayashi

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Endoscopic submucosal dissection with double-tunnel technique for en bloc resection of large rectal laterally spreading tumor

Stefanos P. Bassioukas, Charalampis Katzakis, Christos Kitsios, Akrivi Pandazopoulou

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A unique appendiceal orifice: a striking foreign body in the cecum

Hamzeh Saraireh, Mohammad Bilal, Karen Szauter

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Case Report

Embolia cutis medicamentosa: an unusual adverse reaction to terlipressin

Polychronis Gatos-Gatopoulos, Stephanos Konstantoudakis, Ioannis G. Panayiotides, George D. Dimitriadis, Konstantinos Triantafyllou

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Letter to the Editor

Helicobacter pylori best treatment approach: should a national consensus be the best consensus?

Christos Liatsos, Sotirios D. Georgopoulos

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Table of contents

Invited Reviews

Review Articles

Original Articles

Images of the Month

Case Report

Letter to the Editor