Gastroenterology

Chronic pancreatitis is a progressive fibroinflammatory disease of the pancreas that causes recurrent or chronic abdominal pain and functional insufficiency. Chronic pancreatitis follows the conceptual model of acinar cell injury, which lea…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Functional bowel disorders (FBDs) are the most common gastrointestinal problems managed by physicians. We aimed to assess the burden of chronic symptomatic FBDs on ambulatory care delivery in the United States and evaluat…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: There are few data on the prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in the United States. We performed a population-based study to determine the prevalence of GERD symptoms and persistent GERD symptoms despite …

Although achalasia is usually of idiopathic origin, it may be secondary to another disease process such as neoplasia. The first description of a familial achalasia syndrome that appears to be secondary to diffuse esophageal leiomyomatosis w…

A 36-yr-old woman with a history of epigastric pain and a recent episode of acute pancreatitis was found at surgery to have a cyst in the tail of the pancreas that was lined by ectopic endometrial tissue. This is, to our knowledge, the firs…