Purpose We aimed to evaluate the impact of a transition service on clinical and developmental
outcomes in adolescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients on transfer to adult …

Objectives Abdominal pain adversely impacts children with functional gastrointestinal
disorders (FGIDs) or organic gastrointestinal disorders (OGIDs); findings are inconsistent …

BACKGROUND: Less than two-thirds of children with abdominal pain in the emergency
department receive analgesia. We sought to determine whether hyoscine butylbromide was …

Pediatric recurrent abdominal pain is commonly associated with negative impacts on quality
of life (QOL). Positive schemas (core beliefs about the self with subthemes of self-efficacy, …

Objective Remote investigation and monitoring have gained importance in ambulatory
practice. A home‐based fecal calprotectin (FC) test has been developed where the sample is …

Azathioprine leads to changes in mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and white blood cell (WBC)
indices reflecting efficacy or toxicity. Understanding the interactions between bone …

We describe the clinical, endoscopic, and histological features of all cases of Barrett's
esophagus (BE) diagnosed at our institution between 2000 and 2007 following the criteria of the …

Focal active colitis (FAC) is a histopathologic finding of uncertain clinical significance in
individual patients. In adults, infection accounts for approximately 50%, Crohn's disease (CD) for …

The patient underwent an emergent upper endoscopy, which revealed coffee-ground content
in the stomach and grade 2 distal esophageal varices (Figure 1). The varices were not …

Spontaneous or non-traumatic common bile duct (CBD) perforation in children is a rare
condition leading to difficulty and delay in diagnosis and resulting in high mortality. Presentation …