Original Article

Hepatitis C Virus Survival Curve Analysis in Naïve Patients Treated with PegInterferon α-2b Plus Ribavirin. A Randomized Controlled Trial for Induction with High Doses of PegInterferon and Predictability of Sustained Viral Response from Early Virologic Da

Konstantinos Mimidis, Vassilios P. Papadopoulos, Ioannis Elefsiniotis, Dimitrios Koliouskas, Ioannis Ketikoglou, Emmanouil Paraskevas, Stylianos Kanatakis, Dimitrios Chrysagis, Georgios N. Dalekos, Charalambos Tzathas, Andreas Protopapas, Eleni Gigi, Epameinondas Tsianos, Georgios Kartalis

213-219

Positive Coeliac Serology in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients with Normal Duodenal Biopsies: Video Capsule Endoscopy Findings and HLA-DQ Typing May Affect Clinical Management

Samuel Nathan Adler, Harold Jacob, Graciela Lijovetzky, Chris J.J. Mulder, Antonie Zwiers

221-225

What General Practitioners Know about Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Preliminary Data from a Romanian Province

Dan L. Dumitrascu, Liliana David, Manfred Singer

227-230

Infliximab Reduces the Number of Activated Mucosal Lymphocytes in Patients with Crohn’s Disease

Ivan Ferkolj, Alojz Ihan, Saša Markovic, Zeljka Veceric, Maja Pohar

231-235

Reviews

Rome III: New Standard for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders

Douglas A. Drossman, Dan L. Dumitrascu

237-241

Update in the Diagnosis of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Radu Tutuian

243-247

Acute Hepatitis C Virus Infection: Diagnosis, Pathogenesis, Treatment

Florin Alexandru Cãruntu, Loredana Benea

249-256

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approach to Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Stylianos Germanos, Stavros Gourgiotis, Aglaia Stavrothanasopoulou, Periklis Alepas, Nikolaos Zampitis, Aikaterini Panteli

257-263

Clinical imaging

The Role of Imaging Methods in Identifying the Causes of Extrahepatic Cholestasis*

Ion Rogoveanu, Dan Ionut Gheonea, Adrian Sãftoiu, Tudorel Ciurea

265-271

Hepatic Perfusion Disorders: Computer-Tomographic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Ioana G. Lupescu, Mugur Grasu, Razvan Capsa, Alina Pitrop, Serban A. Georgescu

273-279

Case Reports

Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Used for the Diagnosis of a Retroperitoneal Abscess. A Case Report

Adrian Sãftoiu, Sevastita Iordache, Carmen Popescu, Tudorel Ciurea

283-287

Spontaneous Splenorenal Shunt in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis and Hypertrophic Caudal Lobe

Ðorde Culafic, Mirjana Perišic, Violeta Vojinoviæ-Culafic, Dragan Sagic, Mirko Kerkez

289-292

Inferior Mesentericocaval Shunt - an Efficient Therapeutical Alternative in Budd Chiari Syndrome Associated with Portal and Splenic Vein Thrombosis in a Teenager

Lucia Burac, Constantin Ciuce, Zeno Spârchez, Genel Sur, Cristina Muresan, Nicolae Miu

293-295

Perforated GIST of the Small Intestine as a Rare Cause of Acute Abdomen: Surgical Treatment and Adjuvant Therapy. Case Report

Eleni I. Efremidou, Nikolaos Liratzopoulos, Michalis S. Papageorgiou, Konstantinos Romanidis, Konstantinos J. Manolas, Georgios J. Minopoulos

297-299

Multiple Peritoneal Hydatid Disease after Rupture of a Multivesicular Hepatic Hydatid Cyst. Case report

Eugen Tarcoveanu, Gabriel Dimofte, Costel Bradea, Felicia Crumpei, Raluca Anton, Radu Moldovanu

301-305

Gastroenterology in Romania

A Survey on the Practice of Gastroenterology in Romania

Ioan Sporea, Alina Popescu, Roxana Sirli, Viorela Enãchescu, Alexandra Deleanu, Eftimie Miutescu

313-316

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