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Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in a Patient with Liver Cirrhosis: Gastroesophageal Varices Are not Always to Blame

Emanuel Dias, Fernando Azevedo, Ana Afonso, Guilherme Macedo

323-323

Endoscopic Application of Purastat® in the Treatment of Solitary Rectal Ulcer Syndrome

Mario Gagliardi, Mariano Sica, Giovanni Oliviero, Attilio Maurano, Claudio Zulli

324-324

An Extragenital Colonic Salpingiosis

Valeria D'Ovidio, Daniela Maggi, Giovanni Bruno, Stefano Fratoni, Marco Guazzaroni

325-325

Portal Vein Thrombosis after Percutaneous Liver Biopsy

Jerome Dumortier, Sabine Ficarelli, Olivier Boillot

326-326

Original Article

Incidence, Predictive Factors, Clinical Characteristics and Outcome of Non-variceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding – A Prospective Population-based Study from Hungary

Laszlo Lakatos, Lorant Gonczi, Livia Lontai, Ferenc Izbeki, Arpad Patai, Istvan Racz, Beata Gasztonyi, Lajos Varga-Szabo, Akos Ilias, Peter L. Lakatos

327-333

Epidemiology of Irritable Bowel Syndrome in Albania

Adelina Nicoleta Galica, Reitano Galica, Dan Lucian Dumitrascu

334-338

Serum Visfatin as a Diagnostic Marker of Active Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Mo’men M Saadoun, DR, Nahla Abd el-Aziz Nosair, Prof, Hala Abdel-Hameed Abdel-Azeez, Prof, Samar M Sharaf, Prof, Mohammed Hussien Ahmed

339-345

Risk Factors for Extraintestinal Manifestations in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - Data from the Romanian National Registry

Ana-Maria Singeap, Irina Girleanu, Mircea Diculescu, Liana Gheorghe, Maria Ciocîrlan, Cristian Gheorghe, Adrian Costache, Alina Tanțău, Roxana Zaharie, Adrian Goldis, Dan Gheonea, Daniela Dobru, Eugen Dumitru, Cristina Cijevschi Prelipcean, Georgiana-Emmanuela Gîlcă-Blanariu, Mihaela Moscalu, Carol Stanciu, Anca Trifan

346-357

Negative Effects of Endoscopists’ Fatigue on Colonoscopy Quality on 34,022 Screening Colonoscopies

Zhiyu Dong, Junwen Wang, Ying Chen, Huihui Sun, Bo Li, Qiongmei Zhang, Kejing Sun, Zhenxiang Wang, Xue Qian, Tingting Zhan, Yuanxi Jiang, Shuchang Xu

358-365

Liver-related Mortality is Increased in Lean Subjects with Non- alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Compared to Overweight and Obese Subjects

Alexandra Feldman, Bernhard Wernly, Georg Strebinger, Sebastian Karl Eder, Stephan Zandanell, David Niederseer, Michael Strasser, Heike Haufe, Karl Sotlar, Bernhard Paulweber, Christian Datz, Elmar Aigner

366-373

Anticoagulation Therapy for Portal Vein Thrombosis in Patients with Cirrhosis in a Tertiary Center Experience

Marieta Madalina Florescu, Adrian Costache, Speranta Maria Iacob, Corina Pietrareanu, Carmen Ester, Razvan Cerban, Radu Dumitru, Mugur Grasu, Ioana Lupescu, Liana Gheorghe

374-379

Treatment Intensity, not Age, Affects Survival Time of Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Jonas Kunkel, Wolfram Bohle, Silja Henseling, Wolfram Zoller

380-387

Comparative Efficacy and Tolerability of Janus Kinase Inhibitor Therapies for Moderate to Severe Crohn’s Disease: Α Network Meta-analysis

Theodoros Rokkas, Konstantinos Ekmektzoglou, Yaron Niv

388-397

Review

Differentiating Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis from Similar Diseases of Autoimmune Origin

Lumir Kunovsky, Petr Dite, Lubomira Hornakova, Jiri Dolina, Magdalena Uvirova, Vladimir Kojecky, Arnost Martinek, Petr Jabandziev

398-403

Case Reports

A Modified “Rendezvous” Technique for EUS-guided Recanalization of a Rectal Anastomotic Stricture without Fluoroscopy and Stenting

Dimitrios Kypraios, Eleni Manthopoulou, Dimitrios Dimitroulopoulos, Aris Plastiras, Alexandros Ioannou, Dimitrios Katsinelos, Klisthenis Tsamakidis

404-406

Letters

Full cystic remnant ductoscopy: a novel criterion for defining completeness in direct cholangioscopy?

Vincent Zimmer

407-408

Impact of solid necrotic content on the outcome of endoscopic ultrasound guided transmural drainage of walled off pancreatic necrosis

Nikhil Bush, Surinder S Rana, Rajesh Gupta

408-409

Durable response with lenvatinib and pembrolizumab combination therapy in a patient with pre-treated metastatic cholangiocarcinoma

Lena Dreikhausen, Alexander Kusnik, Nadine Schulte, Maximilian Eckardt, Andreas Teufel, Timo Gaiser, Matthias Ebert, Tianzuo Zhan

409-410

Use of a novel viscous lifting solution (LiftUp®) to enable safer and larger en bloc endoscopic mucosal resection in deep enteroscopy

Catarina Gomes, Rolando Pinho, Rita Costa, Pedro Antunes, Ana Ponte, Adélia Rodrigues

410-411

Pembrolizumab induced steroid resistant immune mediated colitis and concurrent Clostridioides difficile infection

Carmen Monica Preda, Raluca Ioana Marin, Gabriel Becheanu, Florina Neacsu, Teodora Manuc, Mircea Manuc

411-413

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