Digestive and liver disease : official journal of the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and the Italian Association for the Study of the Liver
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There is little agreement about the efficacy of nonsurgical treatment for abscess associated with Crohn's disease. Furthermore, there is no study on characteristics of abscess or patient that nonsurgical treatment could be worth trying as initial treatment. ⋯ Nonsurgical treatment can be considered as initial treatment modality for the Crohn's disease-related abscess without concurrent steroid therapy or relevant fistula.
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The traditional approach to gastro-oesophageal reflux disease as a spectrum disease has recently been criticised and the distinct phenotypic presentations model has been proposed. ⋯ In keeping with the spectrum model of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, severity of acid reflux increases from non-erosive reflux disease through erosive reflux disease up to ulcerative oesophagitis and long-segment Barrett's oesophagus. Ulcerative oesophagitis and long-segment Barrett's oesophagus could represent an advanced step in the natural history of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. Our results do not confirm the distinct phenotypic presentations hypothesis.
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Anti-parietal cell antibody is found in patients with Helicobacter pylori-positive gastritis and is related to atrophic gastritis and gastric carcinoma. ⋯ Our results showed that patients with a negative anti-parietal cell antibody titre and low pepsinogen I/II ratio are at high-risk for gastric carcinoma.