Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

11/04/2025

🏅 WGO 2025 Honors at
🎖️ Masters of the WGO Award
🥇 Bockus & Brohée Medals
🚺 Trailblazer Award to Prof. Naima Lahbabi-Amrani for advancing women in GI
📖 Read in JCG

11/04/2025

🧬 New in JCG (feat. Dr. Gengqing Song):
Celiac disease and eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) frequently co-occur — TriNetX analysis shows ↑ risk of asthma, atopy, and anemia when both are present.
📊 Real-world data, pediatric & adult.

10/25/2025

📊 New in JCG:
Steroids reduce esophageal stenosis and need for balloon dilation after ESD—systemic steroids > local
🧾 OR for stenosis: 0.36
💉 Prednisolone > triamcinolone
No ↑ in adverse events.

10/25/2025

📌 JCG Clinical Review: Resmetirom vs GLP-1 agonists for MASH (MASLD + fibrosis) — how do they compare?
This review breaks down current evidence and proposes a practical treatment algorithm for clinicians.

10/25/2025

🏅 WGO Honors 2025: Celebrating global GI leaders at
🎖️ Masters of the WGO; Bockus & Brohée Medals
✨ Trailblazer Award to Prof. Naima Lahbabi-Amrani for her impact in

10/01/2025

🧠Analysis of NHANES 2007–2010 shows a gender-specific link between thyroid hormone resistance (TFQIFT4) and constipation in the U.S. population.
🔍 TFQIFT4 inversely associated with constipation in females only.

regarding this correlation. The research aims to examine the association between indices of thyroid hormone resistance, particularly the Thyroid Feedback Quantile-based Index of Free Thyroxine (TFQIFT4), and the occurrence of constipation among the population of the United States. Methods: The analy...

10/01/2025

🩸In patients with AF & liver cirrhosis, DOACs offer comparable efficacy to warfarin but reduce major bleeding & mortality, especially in Child-Pugh A.
📉 aHR for major bleeding: 0.64
📉 aHR for mortality: 0.73

tive cohort study was conducted in the largest hospital system in Taiwan, involving patients with AF and LC for the years 2012 to 2021. Hazards of thromboembolic events (ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack, and systemic embolism), intracranial hemorrhage, gastrointestinal, major bleeding, and...

09/22/2025

🌍 The World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) releases its updated Chronic Constipation Guideline—a global cascade approach tailored to diverse healthcare settings.

An abstract is unavailable.

09/22/2025

📌 High-dose esomeprazole-amoxicillin dual therapy (HDDT) is highly effective and better tolerated than furazolidone-based quadruple therapy for H. pylori rescue.
ITT eradication: 93.6% vs. 86.9%
Side effects: 9% vs. 59%

A total of 209 patients with H. pylori infection, who had previously received ineffective treatment and visited an outpatient clinic, were randomly assigned to either the HDDT or FBQT groups. All patients underwent a 14-day treatment regimen, and the success rates of H. pylori eradication and safety...

09/22/2025

🔍 EFTR vs. STER for upper GI lesions:
New meta-analysis in JCG (n=725) shows EFTR yields higher en bloc & complete resection rates with lower recurrence, but both are comparable in safety.

hniques used for resecting these lesions. This meta-analysis aims to compare the efficacy and safety of EFTR and STER in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal (GI) lesions. A systematic search was conducted in Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, Medline/PubMed, and Cochrane databases up to August 2024...

08/28/2025

🧪 New in JCG: Noninvasive Disease Assessment in Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE)

FeNO helps differentiate active EoE vs non-EoE, while serum EDN, ECP, TARC & AEC show promise for monitoring disease activity.

🔗 Read free:

tions. Study: Nonasthmatic patients 18 years or above with suspected or diagnosed EoE, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and control individuals with indication for endoscopy were enrolled prospectively between November 2020 and May 2022. Participants underwent body plethysmography with fracti...

08/28/2025

🌏 WGO News & Events

Join us at the World Congress of Gastroenterology @ Australian Gastroenterology Week 2025 (WCOG@AGW25) in Melbourne 🇦🇺, Sept 19–22.
Theme: Emerging Frontiers in Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Details 👉 https://journals.lww.com/jcge/fulltext/2025/09000/world_gastroenterology_organization__wgo__news_and.1.aspx

Congress site 👉 https://www.wgo-agw25.gesa.org.au/

World Congress of Gastroenterology at Australian Gastroenterology Week 2025, Melbourne Australia 20-22 September 2025.