Editorial

Immune system and Gut Flora Interactions Are Important Episodes in metabolic Diseases

Shalini Jain, Francesco Marotta, Roberto Catanzaro, Hariom Yadav

347-348

Images of the Issue

A Rare Cause of Recurrent Iron-Deficiency Anemia: Cavernous Hemangioma of the Small Intestine

Axel Huber, Ahmed Abdel Samie, Dmytro Kychenko, Lorenz Theilmann

343

Mesenteric Phlebosclerosis: an unexpected Cause of Abdominal Pain

Hong-Hau Wang, Yu-Cheng Wu, Chia-Hsin Liu, Yen-Lin Chen, Guo-Shu Huang, Wei-Chou Chang

344

Cronkhite-Canada syndrome Associated with a Giant Cell Bone Tumor

John K. Triantafillidis, Anastasios Kougioumtzian, Alexandra Leivaditou, Panagiotis Kostopoulos

345

Severe hemorrhage from Isolated Ileal Varices in a Patient with Cirrhosis

Liliana Dina, Bogdan Procopet, Oliviu Pascu, Horia Stefănescu, Cosmin Caraiani, Marcel Tantau

346

Original Article

Common PPARγ variants C161T and Pro12Ala are not Associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in an Australian Cohort

Georgia E. Hume, Elizabeth V. Fowler, Lyn R . Griffiths, James D. Doecke, Graham L. Radford-Smith

349-355

Diet and Irritable Bowel syndrome

Ioan Chirila, Florin D. Petrariu, Irina Ciortescu, Catalina Mihai, Vasile L. Drug

357-362

High Prevalence of Primary Antibiotic Resistance in Helicobacter pylori Isolates in Italy

Ilaria M. Saracino, Angelo Zullo, John Holton, Valentina Castelli, Giulia Fiorini, Cristina Zaccaro, Lorenzo Ridola, Chiara Ricci, Luigi Gatta, Dino Vaira

363-365

Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging for Evaluation of Antiviral treatment Response in Chronic hepatitis C

Nicole Forestier, Antonia Gaus, Eva Herrmann, Christoph Sarrazin, Joerg Bojunga, Thierry Poynard, Joerg Albert, Ludmila Gerber, Maximilian-David Schneider, Georg Dultz, Stefan Zeuzem, Mireen Friedrich-Rus

367-373

Prospective Non-Invasive Follow-up of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic hepatitis C

Dana Crisan, Corina Radu, Mircea Dan Grigorescu, Monica Lupsor, Diana Feier, Mircea Grigorescu

375-382

Magnifying Endoscopy with Narrow-Band Imaging in the Differential Diagnosis of Gastric Adenoma and Carcinoma and Identification of a simple Indicator

Yosuke Mochizuki, Yasuharu Saito, Ayako Kobori, Hiromitsu Ban, Mitsuaki Ishida, Yoshihide Fujiyama, Akira Andoh

383-390

Optical Colonoscopy and Virtual Colonoscopy Numbers after Initiation of a Ct Colonography Program: Long term Data

Mark Benson, Jeff Pier, Sally Kraft, David Kim, Perry Pickhardt, Jennifer Weiss, Deepak Gopal, Mark Reichelderfer, Patrick Pfau

391-395

Percutaneous Radiofrequency Ablation for hepatocellular Carcinoma: Clinical Outcome and safety in Elderly Patients

Hiroki Nishikawa, Yukio Osaki, Eriko Iguchi, Haruhiko Takeda, Yoshiaki Ohara, Azusa Sakamoto, Keiichi Hatamaru, Shinichiro Henmi, Sumio Saito, Akihiro Nasu, Ryuichi Kita, Toru Kimura

397-405

Identification of Early Complications Following Liver transplantation using Contrast Enhanced ultrasound (CEus). First Results

Janine Rennert, Christian Dornia, Martina Georgieva, Stefanie Roehrl, Claudia Fellner, Stephan Schleder, Christian Stroszczynski, Ernst-Michael Jung

407-412

Review

Novel Cellular and molecular Approaches to stratification and treatment of Colorectal Cancer

Nicolae Miron, Sergiu Susman, Ovidiu Balacescu, Rares Buiga, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Victor Cristea, Loredana Balacescu, Vlad Manolescu, Tudor Eliade Ciuleanu

413-421

Case Reports

Sarcoidosis: an Extremely Rare Cause of Granulomatous Enterocolitis

Mohammad Esmadi, Dina S. Ahmad, Brian Odum, Alberto Diaz-Arias, Hazem Hammad

423-425

Recanalization of severe Gastric Antral stricture after Large Endoscopic submucosal Dissection: mucosal Incision and Local steroid Injection

Hirohito Mori, Hideki Kobara, Shintaro Fujihara, Noriko Nishiyama, Kazi Rafiq, Tsutomu Masaki

435-437

Letters

Comparison of two different approaches of ultrasound - guided biopsy in diagnosis of liver lesions

Branka Filipovic, Siniša Basara, Nikola Milinić, Nemanja Milisavljevic, Miroslav Djurasinovic, Branislav Filipović

439-443

Endoscopic ultrasound and pancreatic tuberculosis

Chalapathi Rao, Surinder S. Rana, Deepak K. Bhasin

439-443

Reply

Suvadip Chatterjee, Kofi W. Oppong

439-443

hIV/hCV coinfection in Romania - can we afford not to treat?

Camelia Sultana, Simona Manuela Erscoiu, Emanoil Ceausu, Simona Ruta

439-443

Correction