Pathogenesis and Clinical Practice in Gastroenterology

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Proceedings of Falk Symposium 160, held in Portorož, Slovenia, in June 2007, gathering 25 short review papers across luminal and liver disease. Sections cover dysphagia, reflux and Barrett's oesophagus, Helicobacter pylori, inflammatory bowel disease including the ECCO guidelines and biologics, coeliac disease, GI manifestations of AIDS, colorectal cancer screening and GI lymphoma. The liver sections deal with the role of liver biopsy, inflammation and cancer, the immunology and treatment of viral hepatitis, NASH, autoimmune and alcoholic hepatitis, PBC and PSC, hepatorenal syndrome, variceal bleeding and the surveillance, diagnosis and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.