Reply to the Letter by Lévêque et al. Entitled ‘Psychosurgery for Schizophrenia'

Reply to the Letter by Ertem et al. Entitled ‘Is Coronary Circulation the Most Important Parameter for Right Ventricular Functions?’

Letter to the Editor Wolf Subspecies: Reply to Weckworth et al. and Fredrickson et al

Colleagues disagree with statements in our discussion (Cronin et al. 2015) regarding subspecies taxonomy of wolves (Canis lupus) in southeast Alaska (Weckworth et al. 2015) and the southwest United States (Fredrickson et al. 2015). Following the presentation of results of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variation in several populations of wolves in North America, we discussed other genetic...

Reply to the letter from Dr. Miao et al.

1 Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan 2 Faculty of Human, Aichi Toho University, Nagoya, Japan 3 Laboratory of Health Science, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, Kyoto, Japan 4 Department of Home Economics, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan 5 Louis Pasteur Center for ...

Reply to Dr. Selinger et al.'s letter.

We appreciate the input from Selinger et al. They questioned the utility of surveillance for patients with colonic Crohn's disease (CD), finding a cumulative incidence of only 2% of colorectal cancer (CRC) at 30 years. In Australia they found 5 cases of CRC among 327 patients, and we in Finland 4 among 208 patients with colonic CD. The follow up periods were 1977–1992 and 1986–2007, respectivel...

Reply to Dr. Papamichael et al.'s letter.

We thank Dr. Papamichael and colleagues for taking an interest in our work. We agree that fecal calprotectin (FC) is an accurate surrogate marker of endoscopic activity both in Crohn's disease (CD)1,2 and ulcerative colitis (UC).3,2 However, data on its usefulness to predict postoperative endoscopic recurrence (PER) in CD patients are more scarce.1,4 Since PER is one of the main indications for...