Skip to main content

Articles

Page 70 of 85

  1. A tenth of patients with involuntary weight loss (IWL) have gastrointestinal cancer. Ferritin is the first parameter to be modified during the process leading to iron deficiency anaemia, therefore it should be...

    Authors: Cristian Baicus, Simona Caraiola, Mihai Rimbas, Ruxandra Patrascu and Anda Baicus
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:86
  2. Gastric cancer is a serious public health problem in Northern Brazil and in the world due to its high incidence and mortality. Despite the severity of the disease, more research is needed to better understand ...

    Authors: Tanielly Cristina Raiol Silva, Mariana Ferreira Leal, Danielle Queiroz Calcagno, Carolina Rosal Teixeira de Souza, André Salim Khayat, Ney Pereira Carneiro dos Santos, Raquel Carvalho Montenegro, Silvia Helena Barem Rabenhorst, Mayara Quaresma Nascimento, Paulo Pimentel Assumpção, Marília de Arruda Cardoso Smith and Rommel Rodríguez Burbano
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:85
  3. Non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes and chronic liver disease but identifying patients who have NAFLD without resorting to expensive imaging tests is ...

    Authors: Ki-Chul Sung, Bum-Soo Kim, Yong-Kyun Cho, Dong-il Park, Sookyoung Woo, Seonwoo Kim, Sarah H Wild and Christopher D Byrne
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:84
  4. Capsule endoscopy with flexible spectral imaging color enhancement (CE-FICE) has been reported to improve the visualization and detection of small-bowel lesions, however, its clinical usefulness is still not e...

    Authors: Eiji Sakai, Hiroki Endo, Shingo Kato, Tetsuya Matsuura, Wataru Tomeno, Leo Taniguchi, Takashi Uchiyama, Yasuo Hata, Eiji Yamada, Hidenori Ohkubo, Takuma Higrashi, Kunihiro Hosono, Hirokazu Takahashi and Atsushi Nakajima
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:83
  5. Hepatocellular adenoma (HCA) in pregnant women requires special considerations because of the risk of hormone induced growth and spontaneous rupture, which may threaten the life of both mother and child. Due t...

    Authors: Susanna M van Aalten, Mirelle E E Bröker, J J V Busschbach, Harry J de Koning, Robert A de Man, Eric A P Steegers, Ewout W Steyerberg, Turkan Terkivatan and Jan N M IJzermans
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:82
  6. Stem cell-based therapy has recently been explored for the treatment of disorders of the enteric nervous system (ENS). Pluripotent embryonic stem (ES) cells represent an attractive cell source; however, little...

    Authors: Valentina Sasselli, Maria-Adelaide Micci, Kristen M Kahrig and Pankaj Jay Pasricha
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:81
  7. Screening colonoscopy effectiveness is hampered by limited adherence by the general population. The present prospective study was performed to evaluate whether adding capsule colonoscopy to the endoscopic scre...

    Authors: Stefan Groth, Horst Krause, Rainer Behrendt, Helge Hill, Michael Börner, Murat Bastürk, Nora Plathner, Friedrich Schütte, Ulrich Gauger, Jürgen Ferdinand Riemann, Lutz Altenhofen and Thomas Rösch
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:80
  8. The pathogenesis of colorectal neoplasia is still unresolved but has been associated with alterations in epithelial clearance of xenobiotics and metabolic waste products. The aim of this study was to functiona...

    Authors: Karen Kleberg, Gerda Majgaard Jensen, Dan Ploug Christensen, Morten Lundh, Lars Groth Grunnet, Svend Knuhtsen, Steen Seier Poulsen, Mark Berner Hansen and Niels Bindslev
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:78
  9. Recent studies showed that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) could be classified into germinal centre B cell-like (GCB) and non-germinal centre B cell-like (non-GCB) phenotypes according to CD10,Bcl-6 and ...

    Authors: Zizhen Zhang, Yanying Shen, Danping Shen and Xingzhi Ni
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:77
  10. Accurate diagnostic and monitoring tools for ulcerative colitis (UC) are missing. Our aim was to describe the proteomic profile of UC and search for markers associated with disease exacerbation. Therefore, we ...

    Authors: Nina Aagaard Poulsen, Vibeke Andersen, Jens Christian Møller, Hanne Søndergaard Møller, Flemming Jessen, Stig Purup and Lotte Bach Larsen
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:76
  11. Some patients under close colonoscopic surveillance still develop colorectal cancer, thus suggesting the overlook of colorectal adenoma by endoscopists. AFI detects colorectal adenoma as a clear magenta, there...

    Authors: Kentaro Moriichi, Mikihiro Fujiya, Ryu Sato, Jiro Watari, Yoshiki Nomura, Toshie Nata, Nobuhiro Ueno, Shigeaki Maeda, Shin Kashima, Kentaro Itabashi, Chisato Ishikawa, Yuhei Inaba, Takahiro Ito, Kotaro Okamoto, Hiroki Tanabe, Yusuke Mizukami…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:75
  12. Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection may cause liver diseases of various severities ranging from primary acute infection to life-threatening diseases, such as cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma with poor progn...

    Authors: Ming-Ju Hsieh, Kuang-Ping Lan, Hao-Yu Liu, Xiao-Zong Zhang, Yaw-Feng Lin, Tzy-Yen Chen and Hui-Ling Chiou
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:74
  13. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common cancer in Europe with a mortality rate of almost 50%. The prognosis of patients is largely determined by the clinical and pathological stage at the time of diagnosis....

    Authors: Inge Stegeman, Thomas R de Wijkerslooth, Rosalie C Mallant-Hent, Karin de Groot, An K Stroobants, Paul Fockens, Marco Mundt, Patrick MM Bossuyt and Evelien Dekker
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:73
  14. Solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS) is an uncommon although benign defecation disorder. The aim of this study was to evaluate the variable endoscopic manifestations of SRUS and its association with other dis...

    Authors: Shahab Abid, Ali Khawaja, Salima Ahmed Bhimani, Zubair Ahmad, Saeed Hamid and Wasim Jafri
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:72
  15. Liver inflammation due to HCV infection leads to fibrosis, which is an independent predictor of treatment response to interferon therapy in Chronic Hepatitis C (CHC) patients. This relationship has not been st...

    Authors: Shirin Mirza, Amna Rehana Siddiqui, Saeed Hamid, Muhammad Umar and Shaheena Bashir
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:71
  16. Refractory benign esophageal strictures (RBESs) have been treated with the temporary placement of different self-expanding stents with conflicting results. We compared the clinical effectiveness of 3 types of ...

    Authors: Jorge Manuel Tavares Canena, Manuel José Antunes Liberato, Ricardo António Natário Rio-Tinto, Pedro Miguel Pinto-Marques, Carlos Manuel Menezes Romão, António Vasco Mello Pereira Coutinho, Beatriz Alda Henriques Costa Neves and Maria Filipa Costa Neves Santos-Silva
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:70
  17. The association between low serum testosterone levels, visceral adipose tissue (VAT), and metabolic syndrome is now well known. However, the relationship between hepatic steatosis and serum testosterone levels...

    Authors: Sunmi Kim, Hyuktae Kwon, Jin-Ho Park, Belong Cho, Donghee Kim, Seung-Won Oh, Cheol Min Lee and Ho-Chun Choi
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:69
  18. Mitochondrial dysfunction participates in the progression of several pathologies. Although there is increasing evidence for a mitochondrial role in liver disease, little is known about its contribution to hepa...

    Authors: Eduardo L Guimarães, Jan Best, Laurent Dollé, Mustapha Najimi, Etienne Sokal and Leo A van Grunsven
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:68
  19. Vascular ectasias, including gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) and angiodysplasia, are increasingly recognized as important sources of gastrointestinal bleeding. This study investigated and compared the e...

    Authors: Yi-Chun Chiu, Lung-Sheng Lu, Keng-Liang Wu, William Tam, Ming-Luen Hu, Wei-Chen Tai, King-Wah Chiu and Seng-Kee Chuah
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:67
  20. High dose intravenous proton pump inhibitor after endoscopic therapy for peptic ulcer bleeding has been recommended as adjuvant therapy. Whether oral proton pump inhibitor can replace intravenous proton pump i...

    Authors: Hsu-Heng Yen, Chia-Wei Yang, Wei-Wen Su, Maw-Soan Soon, Shun-Sheng Wu and Hwai-Jeng Lin
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:66
  21. Liver injury due to prescription and nonprescription medications is an expanding public health concern in the United States, with drug-induced liver injury (DILI) being the single most common reason for regula...

    Authors: David Sprague and Kiran Bambha
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:65
  22. The human ATP-binding cassette, subfamily B, member 11 (ABCB11) gene encodes the bile salt export pump, which is exclusively expressed at the canalicular membrane of hepatocytes. A frequent variant in the coding ...

    Authors: Roman Müllenbach, Susanne N Weber, Marcin Krawczyk, Vincent Zimmer, Christoph Sarrazin, Frank Lammert and Frank Grünhage
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:63
  23. While the evidence-base concerning the economic impact of cancer for patients and their families/carers has grown in recent years, there is little known about how emotional responses to cancer influence this e...

    Authors: Alan Ó Céilleachair, Liza Costello, Claire Finn, Aileen Timmons, Patricia Fitzpatrick, Kanika Kapur, Anthony Staines and Linda Sharp
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:62
  24. Gastrointestinal contractions are controlled by an underlying bioelectrical activity. High-resolution spatiotemporal electrical mapping has become an important advance for investigating gastrointestinal electr...

    Authors: Rita Yassi, Gregory O’Grady, Nira Paskaranandavadivel, Peng Du, Timothy R Angeli, Andrew J Pullan, Leo K Cheng and Jonathan C Erickson
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:60
  25. Mesenteric panniculitis is a rare chronic fibrosing inflammatory disease that typically affects the adipose tissue and mesentery of the small intestine but may also affect the mesosigmoid and the mesocolon. Th...

    Authors: Aurélie Daumas, Serge Agostini, Julia Villeret, Philippe Ah-Soune, Olivier Emungania and Brigitte Granel
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:59
  26. Wireless capsule pH-metry (WC) is better tolerated than standard nasal pH catheter (SC), but endoscopic placement is expensive. Aims: to confirm that non-endoscopic peroral manometric placement of WC is as eff...

    Authors: Christopher N Andrews, Daniel C Sadowski, Adriana Lazarescu, Chad Williams, Emil Neshev, Martin Storr, Flora Au and Steven J Heitman
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:58
  27. Intestinal hyper-permeability plays a critical role in the etiopathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by affecting the penetration of pathogens, toxic compounds and macromolecules. 1,25-dihydroxyvita...

    Authors: Hongwei Zhao, Hong Zhang, Hui Wu, Hui Li, Lei Liu, Jian Guo, Chenyang Li, David Q Shih and Xiaolan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:57
  28. Oestrogen and progestogen have the potential to influence gastro-intestinal motility; both are key components of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Results of observational studies in women taking HRT rely on ...

    Authors: Helen Close, James M Mason, Douglas Wilson and A Pali S Hungin
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:56
  29. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) symptoms often overlap. In some IBS cases there are subtle inflammatory changes similar to the immune-mediated pathophysiology of IBD, and th...

    Authors: Chad K Porter, Brooks D Cash, Mark Pimentel, Akintunde Akinseye and Mark S Riddle
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:55
  30. This study examined the effects of Palm vitamin E (PVE) and α-tocopherol (α-TF) supplementations on adrenalin, noradrenalin, xanthine oxidase plus dehydrogenase (XO + XD) activities and gastric lesions in rats...

    Authors: Nur Azlina Mohd Fahami, Ibrahim AbdelAziz Ibrahim, Yusof Kamisah and Nafeeza Mohd Ismail
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:54
  31. Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS) is a well-recognized functional gastrointestinal disorder in children but its presentation is poorly understood in adults. Genetic differences in pediatric-onset (presentation be...

    Authors: Nilay Kumar, Qumseya Bashar, Naveen Reddy, Jyotirmoy Sengupta, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, Abigail Schroeder, Walter J Hogan and Thangam Venkatesan
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:52
  32. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review with meta-analysis of studies assessing the association between living in an urban environment and the development of the Crohn’s disease (CD) or ...

    Authors: Ing Shian Soon, Natalie A Molodecky, Doreen M Rabi, William A Ghali, Herman W Barkema and Gilaad G Kaplan
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:51
  33. Lynch syndrome confers increased risk for various malignancies, including colorectal cancer. Colonoscopic surveillance programs have led to reduced incidence of colorectal cancer and reduced mortality from col...

    Authors: Amy S Oxentenko and Thomas C Smyrk
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:50
  34. Treatment effectiveness of Helicobacter pylori varies regionally and is decreasing worldwide, principally as a result of antibiotic resistant bacterium. Tetracycline is generally included in second line H. pylori

    Authors: Rodrigo Buzinaro Suzuki, Cristiane Maria Almeida and Márcia Aparecida Sperança
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:49
  35. The natural course and treatment strategies for asymptomatic or oligosymptomatic pancreatic necrosis are still poorly defined. The aim of this retrospective study was to establish criteria for the need of inte...

    Authors: Christian Jürgensen, Alexander Arlt, Frank Neser, Annette Fritscher-Ravens, Ulrich Stölzel and Jochen Hampe
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:48
  36. A prospective study was performed to compare the prevalence of morphometric vertebral fractures (MVF) between patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and healthy subjects and to identify predictive fact...

    Authors: Ma Angeles Vázquez, Enrique Lopez, Ma José Montoya, Mercè Giner, Ramón Pérez-Temprano and Ramón Pérez-Cano
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:47
  37. Acetaminophen (APAP) overdose induces massive hepatocyte necrosis. Necrotic tissue releases high mobility group B1 (HMGB1), and HMGB1 contributes to liver injury. Even though blockade of HMGB1 does not protect...

    Authors: Runkuan Yang, Shutian Zhang, Antonella Cotoia, Niku Oksala, Shengtao Zhu and Jyrki Tenhunen
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:45
  38. Diminished bone mineral density (BMD) is of significant concern in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Exact etiology is debatable. The recognition of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23), a phosphaturi...

    Authors: Mostafa Abdel-Aziz El-Hodhod, Ahmad Mohamed Hamdy, Amal Ahmed Abbas, Sherine George Moftah and Alhag Ahmed Mohamed Ramadan
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:44
  39. Many studies suggest that in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection regulate T (Treg) cells and interlukin-17-producing T help cells (Th17) are mutually antagonistic in the immune response. This study is ai...

    Authors: Liang Xue-Song, Li Cheng-Zhong, Zhou Ying and Wan Mo-Bin
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:43
  40. In Japan, treatment guidelines are lacking for patients with upper gastrointestinal symptoms. We aimed to compare the efficacy of different drugs for the treatment of uninvestigated upper gastrointestinal symp...

    Authors: Kouichi Sakurai, Akihito Nagahara, Kazuhiko Inoue, Junichi Akiyama, Katsuhiro Mabe, Junichi Suzuki, Yasuki Habu, Akihiro Araki, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Katsuaki Satoh, Haruhiko Nagami, Ryosaku Harada, Nobuo Tano, Masayasu Kusaka, Yasuhiko Fujioka, Toshikatsu Fujimura…
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:42
  41. Arginine (ARG) and nitric oxide maintain the mucosal integrity of the intestine in various intestinal disorders. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of oral ARG supplementation on intestinal structu...

    Authors: Tal Koppelmann, Yulia Pollak, Jorge Mogilner, Jacob Bejar, Arnold G Coran and Igor Sukhotnik
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:41
  42. Increased rectal luminal lactate concentration may be associated with the severity of the septic shock and high dose of vasopressors. It suggests hypoperfusion of the gut mucosa. This is potentially associated...

    Authors: Lauri Pynnönen, Minna Minkkinen, Sari Räty, Juhani Sand, Isto Nordback, Anders Perner and Jyrki Tenhunen
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:40
  43. Ulcerative colitis (UC) patients failing medical management require colectomy. This study compares risk estimates for predictors of postoperative complication derived from administrative data against that of c...

    Authors: Christopher Ma, Marcelo Crespin, Marie-Claude Proulx, Shanika DeSilva, James Hubbard, Martin Prusinkiewicz, Geoffrey C Nguyen, Remo Panaccione, Subrata Ghosh, Robert P Myers, Hude Quan and Gilaad G Kaplan
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:39
  44. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has typically been performed using air insufflation. Recently, however, insufflation of CO2 has been increasingly used to avoid complications. This prospective study was des...

    Authors: Hirohito Mori, Hideki Kobara, Shintaro Fujihara, Noriko Nishiyama, Kunihiko Izuishi, Masaomi Ohkubo, Kazi Rafiq, Yasuyuki Suzuki and Tsutomu Masaki
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:37
  45. The aetiology of colorectal cancer (CRC) remains elusive in the majority of cases. There is experimental evidence to show that HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) may inhibit proliferation and induce cause ...

    Authors: Thomas Broughton, Jamie Sington and Ian LP Beales
    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2012 12:36

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.4 - 2-year Impact Factor
    3.0 - 5-year Impact Factor
    1.037 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.759 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    40 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    166 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    3,090,113 downloads
    2,444 Altmetric mentions 

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency: Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with: Editor

    Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

Trending Articles

Click here to view which Articles have been shared the most this year!