Background Existing scales for assessing faecal incontinence have not been validated against clinical assessment, or with regard to reproducibility. They also fail to take into account faecal urgency, ...

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1 Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA 2 Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, ...

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Introduction Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic gastrointestinal disease caused by an aberrant immune response in the gut. Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common disease that may be ...

Introduction Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) is characterised by symptoms (most commonly heartburn) caused by exposure of the oesophageal mucosa to gastric contents. Usually, the macroscopic ...

a Digestive Disease Research Center/Neuroenteric Biology Group, Department of Medicine, UCLA and West LA VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, b Section of Gastroenterology (111G-1), Tucson ...

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Dr J A Williams, Department of Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, 7744 Medical Science Building II, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0622, USA. jawillms{at}umich.edu Arginine induced acute ...

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1 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA Correspondence to: Dr E V ...

Department of Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, Manchester M20 2LR, UK Correspondence to: Dr L A Houghton, Department of Medicine, University Hospital of South Manchester, Nell Lane, ...