background digestive and liver diseases (ld) are among the most common causes of mortality and morbidity in iran and throughout the world. we have aimed to report the etiology and outcome of gastrointestinal and ld that needed admission in a typical tertiary referral hospital in tehran during the last decade. methods shariati hospital gastroenterology and liver disease department (gi & ld) was ...

background gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gild) are among the most common causes of morbidity in iran and constitute a substantial proportion of mortality which imposes enormous economic consequences. our purpose is to collect information and report current statistics on physician visits, hospitalizations, and deaths due to common gild in iran. methods data on the leading causes of death ...

We review key sessions on pharmacological treatment, including four on irritable bowel syndrome and others on pancreatitis and Helicobacter pylori infection.

antiviral agents, many patients face barriers to access. In our Advances in Hepatology column, Dr David E. Bernstein discusses factors that are restricting the use of these lifesaving therapies. A feature article by Drs Nicolas A. Villa and M. Edwyn Harrison describes the diagnosis, classification, and management of biliary strictures, a common complication of liver transplantation. Although bi...

It is increasingly clear that a tailored therapeutic approach to patients with hepatitis C virus infection is needed. Success rates in difficult to treat and low-responsive hepatitis C virus patients are not completely satisfactory, and there is the need to optimise treatment duration and intensity in patients with the highest likelihood of response. In addition, the management of special patie...

402 P&T® • July 2006 • Vol. 31 No. 7 Digestive Disease Week is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers, and academicians in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery. Jointly sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestina...

The focus of this international meeting is to correlate advances in the morphologic evaluation and integration of findings in the digestive tract and pancreas with functional, cellular and molecular knowledge in a series of plenary and poster sessions. The meeting will provide a venue for interactive discussion of the current state of knowledge in both conventional and specialized nonclinical s...