Published in Journal of gastroenterology
In the original publication of the article, the article title was published with typo. The word "eradiation" should be "eradication" in the article title and keywords.
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Numerous biomarkers have been developed for assessing the presence and severity of liver fibrosis associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Fibrosis can be assessed by liver stiffness measurement (LSM) using vibration-controlled transient elastography (VCTE). Here we examined whether diagnostic accuracy and applicability can be fur...
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is one of the most aggressive and lethal tumors, with extremely high metastatic activity and poor prognosis. Previously we have studied miRNAs that promote metastasis and progression of GBC, the aim of present study was to systematically elucidate the metastasis suppressor miRNAs in GBC. A novel designed high-throughput ...
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Second cancers in patients with esophageal cancer (EC) are common and have a poor prognosis. We evaluated the incidence of second cancers at different sites by patients' ages when their index ECs were diagnosed. This study included patients who underwent endoscopic resection for superficial EC at our hospital between September 1994 and September 20...
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Apheresis therapy involves the selective removal of leukocytes and is used to induce remission in ulcerative colitis (UC) patients. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of apheresis therapy for maintaining UC remission. We conducted a multicenter, prospective, randomised-control trial of patients with remitting UC induce...
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
The long-term safety of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) is increasingly questioned. The aim of our study was to assess the risk of pancreatic cancer among long-term PPI users in Sweden. This population-based nationwide Swedish cohort study including 796,492 adult long-term PPI users has been used to calculate the standardized incidence rate ratios (S...
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Almost a quarter century has passed since the first nationwide survey on ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) was conducted in Japan. In this study, we used a nationwide survey to estimate the number of patients and prevalence of these diseases in Japan in 2014. We conducted a mail-based survey targeting hospitals to estimate the annual...
Published in Journal of gastroenterology
Helicobacter pylori CagA has been found to be immuno-dominant protein and utilized for the diagnosis of the infection with cagA-positive strains. It is important to characterize the peptide epitopes capable of detecting serum anti-CagA antibodies to understand CagA immunogenicity. Sera from 171 Japanese patients were subjected for the epitope mappi...
