Annals ofGastroenterology & Hepatology

Volume: 4 - Number: 31 - January 15, 2006

Outstanding

Probiotics in inflammatory bowel disease: is it all gut flora modulation?

Pneumatic dilation for achalasia: late results of a prospective follow up investigation

Long term prognosis of fatty liver: risk of chronic liver disease and death

A prospective randomised study of "covered" versus "uncovered" diamond stents for the management of distal malignant biliary obstruction

Biliary disease

A prospective randomised study of "covered" versus "uncovered" diamond stents for the management of distal malignant biliary obstruction

Case reports

Iron chelation therapy in aceruloplasminaemia: study of a patient with a novel missense mutation

Colon

Colorectal visceral perception in diverticular disease

Commentaries

Probiotics in inflammatory bowel disease: is it all gut flora modulation?

Fistulising Crohn’s disease: MMPs gone awry

Bringing science to the art of diagnosis

Digest

Digest

Esophagus

Pneumatic dilation for achalasia: late results of a prospective follow up investigation

Accuracy of staging in early oesophageal cancer using high resolution endoscopy and high resolution endosonography: a comparative, prospective, and blinded trial

Gastrointestinal infection

Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea in hospitalised patients: onset in the community and hospital and role of flexible sigmoidoscopy

Inflammation

Colonic epithelial cell mediated suppression of CD4 T cell activation

Inflammatory bowel diseases

Expression and localisation of matrix metalloproteinases and their natural inhibitors in fistulae of patients with Crohn’s disease

Development of colonic neoplasia in p53 deficient mice with experimental colitis induced by dextran sulphate sodium

Irritable bowel syndrome

Diagnostic yield of alarm features in irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia

Liver

Long term prognosis of fatty liver: risk of chronic liver disease and death

Pancres

Absence of PRSS1 mutations and association of SPINK1 trypsin inhibitor mutations in hereditary and non-hereditary chronic pancreatitis

Principal's Articles

Hepcidin and its role in iron absorption

Small intestinal

Oats to children with newly diagnosed coeliac disease: a randomised double blind study

Changes in the expression of intestinal iron transport and hepatic regulatory molecules explain the enhanced iron absorption associated with pregnancy in the rat

Sites of symptomatic gas retention during intestinal lipid perfusion in healthy subjects