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Burning Questions in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Learnings from Emerging Drug Options and Clinical Cases

The treatment armamentarium is expanding for patients with UC and Crohn’s disease (CD). The treatments currently available include anti-inflammatory…

Regulation of Lymphangiogenesis by Paneth Cells in Normal Physiology and Experimental Portal Hypertension

In parallel to the blood vascular system, an extensive network of lymphatic vessels circulates throughout the entire body. The lymphatic system plays…

Who Audits Who Using Resection Margins: The Surgeon, or the Pathologist?

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common malignancies in the developed world and with the ‘westernisation’ of diets, other parts of the world…

Practical Management of Anaemia After a Gastrointestinal Bleed

Prof Gralnek opened the symposium with a clinical case: a 52-year old woman presented with dizziness and explained that she had had bloody stools…

Moving Towards a New Era: Algorithms in the Management of Crohn’s Disease

Successful, cost-effective, and efficient management of disease treatment is the driving factor behind many scientific studies, particularly for diseases…

Dysphagia and Bone Marrow Failure: A Rare Neoplastic Mimic

A 54-year-old male with a history of multiple autoimmune arthritides was admitted following a 3-week history of progressive dysphagia with odynophagia…

Switching off Inflammation with Diet: A Review of Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Children with Crohn’s Disease

The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are a group of conditions characterised by chronic, incurable inflammation in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract…

A Rare Case of an Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour of the Colon as a Probable Result of Tumour Recurrence after Hemicolectomy

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) is a rare mesenchymal solid tumour commonly documented in children and young adults, but also found…

Possibility of Link Between Dopamine and Childhood Asthma

The NEUROTRANSMITTER dopamine has been shown, in the latest research, to play a key role in development of the sympathetic nerves of the mouse lung in…

Nanoparticle-Immunotherapy as a Novel Treatment for Lung Cancer

INHALABLE nanoparticles have been shown success in animal models to treat lung cancer. The study, carried out by a team supervised by Professor Dawen Zhao…