Submissions from 2024
Changes in the prevalence of hepatitis B and C viral infections in Sindh province, Pakistan: Findings from two sero-surveys in 2007 and 2019, Tesfa Sewunet Alamneh, Josephine G. Walker, Aaron G. Lim, Ejaz Alam, Saeed Hamid, Graham R. Foster, Naheed Choudhry, M Azim Ansari, Huma Qureshi, and Peter Vickerman
Why MASLD lags behind MAFLD: A critical analysis of diagnostic criteria evolution in metabolic dysfunction-associated liver diseases, Mohamed Alboraie, Amna Subhan Butt, Alejandro Piscoya, Hang Dao Viet, Bilal Hotayt, Sameer AI Awadhi, Ibrahim Halil Bahcecioglu, Nawal Alkhalidi, Mamun Al Mahtab, and Nahum Mendez Sanche
Expert consensus on the diagnosis and treatment of end-stage liver disease complicated by infections, Tao Chen, Guang Chen, Guiqiang Wang, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana, Han-Chieh Lin, Mamun Al-Mahtab, Yogesh K. Chawla, Wasim Jafri, and Saeed Hamid
Progress towards elimination of viral hepatitis: A Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission update, Graham S. Cooke, Barnaby Flower, Evan Cunningham, Alison D. Marshall, Jeffrey V. Lazarus, Adam Palayew, Jidong Jia, Rakesh Aggarwal, Mamum Al-Mahtab, and Saeed Hamid
Gender disparities in gastroenterology and hepatology conferences: The journey towards equality, Jalpa Devi, Amna Subhan Butt, Lajpat Rai, Jatin Kumar, and Sadik Memon
Best practices for hepatitis C linkage to care in pregnant and postpartum women: Perspectives from the TiP-HepC Community of Practice, Neil Gupta Gupta, Lindsey Hiebert, Catherine Chappell, Manal H El Sayed, Saeed Hamid, Ravi Jhaveri, Ali Judd, Martina Badell, Mia Biondi, and Megan Buresh
Best practices for hepatitis C linkage to care in pregnant and postpartum women: Perspectives from the treatment in pregnancy for hepatitis C community of practice, Neil Gupta, Lindsey Hiebert, Ankeeta Saseetharran, Saeed Hamid, Catherine Chappell, Manal H. El-Sayed, Ravi Jhaveri, Ali Judd, Tatyana Kushner, Martina Badell, Mia Biondi, Megan Buresh, Mona Prasad, Jennifer C. Price, and John W. Ward
Preferences and feasibility of long-acting technologies for treatment of hepatitis C virus in low- and middle-income countries: A survey of providers and policymakers, Neil Gupta, Susan Swindells, Renae Furl, Kimberly k. Scars, Davids L. Thomas, Ethel D. Weld, Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem, Hailemichael Desalegn, Saeed Hamid, and John W. Ward
Exploring endoscopic competence in gastroenterology training: A simulation-based comparative analysis of GAGES, DOPS, and ACE assessment tools, Faisal Wasim Ismail, Azam Afzal, Rafia Durrani, Safia Awan, Rayyan Qureshi, and Michelle R. Brown
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and low muscle strength: A comment, Masood Muhammad Karim and Amna Subhan Butt
Recurrence of portosystemic encephalopathy in cirrhotic patients and its risk factors, Masood Muhammad Karim, Abdullah Bin Khalid, Zahabia Sohail, and Mohammad Yasrab
Prolonged endoscopic retrograde cholangiography cannulation step-up protocol likely causing longer procedure time: A major confounding factor, Masood Muhammad Karim and Om Parkash
Technical challenges and safety of prophylactic gallbladder stenting with metallic biliary stenting, Masood Muhammad Karim and Om Parkash
Recurrent acute pancreatitis as an initial presentation of primary hyperparathyroidism: A case report, Masood Muhammad Karim, Hira Raza, and Om Parkash
Comments on 'Safety and feasibility of opening window fistulotomy as a new precutting technique for primary biliary access in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography', Masood Muhammad Karim, Adeel Ur rehman, Faisal Wasim Ismail, and Om Parkash
Pancreatic steatosis-A new modifiable high-risk factor for post-ERCP pancreatitis: Yet much to explore, Masood Muhammad Karim, Adeel Ur Rehman, Atif Majeed, Faisal Wasim Ismail, and Om Parkash
Subcutaneous and paraspinal tuberculous abscesses in a patient with Crohn's disease, Zohair Karim and Shahab Abid
Esophageal leiomyoma within an epinephric diverticulum, Sameeta Kumari, Muhammad Ibrahim Saeed, Faisal Wasim Ismail, and Muhammad Bilal Ibrahim
APASL clinical practice guidelines on the management of acute kidney injury in acute-on-chronic liver failure, Rakhi Maiwall, Satender Pal Singh, Paolo Angeli, Richard Moreau, Aleksander Krag, Virender Singh, Ashwani K. Singal, S S. Tan, Puneet Puri, and Saeed Hamid
Usability and acceptability of self-testing for hepatitis C virus exposure in a high-prevalence urban informal settlement in Karachi, Pakistan, Sara Mazzilli, Muhammad K. Aslam, Javed Akhtar, Saeed Hamid, Marta Miazek, Yves Wailly, Sonjelle Shilton, Dimitri Donchuk, Petros Isaakidis, and William A de Glanville
Use of artificial intelligence for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection from upper gastrointestinal endoscopy images: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis, Om Parkash, Abhishek Lal, Tushar Subash, Ujala Sultan, Hasan Nawaz Tahir, Zahra Hoodbhoy, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, and Jai Kumar Das
Acute pancreatitis: A narrative review, Om Parkash, Zahabia Sohail, Hafsa Shaikh, and Nimra Iqbal
Endoscopic detorsion of sigmoid volvulus in a young female: A case report, Adeel Ur Rehman, Yumna Shahid, and Syedda Ayesha
Real-world comparison of terlipressin vs. octreotide as an adjuvant treatment in the management of variceal bleeding, Hareem Rehman, Syed Tabish Rehman, S Zulfiqar, Safia Awan, and Shahab Abid
Foregut tuberculosis: Too close but miles apart, Yumna Shahid, Muhammad Aarish Anis, and Shahab Abid
Microscopic colitis in a young male: Unveiling the Rarity, Yumna Shahid, Zahabia Sohail, Adeel Ur rehman, and Zeeshan Uddin
Risk factors and outcomes of upper gastrointestinal bleeding in hospitalized patients in a tertiary care hospital, Zahabia Sohail, Filza Naeem, and Om Parkash
A curious case of primary gastric mucosal melanoma, Zahabia Sohail, Mirza Rameez Samar, Adeeba Zaki, Neelam Jawed Qureshi, and Sidra Arshad
Ammonia is associated with liver-related complications and predicts mortality in acute-on-chronic liver failure patients, Kessarin Thanapirom, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Ashok Choudhury, Nipun Verma, Radha Krishan Dhiman, Mamun Al Mahtab, Harshad Devarbhavi, Akash Shukla, Saeed Hamid, and Wasim Jafri
Estimating the prevalence of hepatitis delta virus infection among adults in the United States: A meta-analysis, Robert J. Wong, Carol Brosgart, Steven S. Wong, Jordan Feld, Jeffrey Glenn, Saeed Hamid, Chari Cohen Cohen, Beatrice Zovich, Robert Gish, and John Ward
An updated assessment of hepatitis delta prevalence among adults in Canada: A meta-analysis, Robert J. Wong, Grishma Hirode, Jordan Feld, Steven S. Wong, Carol Brosgart, Jeffrey Glenn, Saeed Hamid, Chari Cohen, Beatrice Zovich, and John Ward
Submissions from 2023
Assessing the potential cost-effectiveness of centralised versus point-of-care testing for hepatitis C virus in Pakistan: A model-based comparison, Joseph B. Babigumira, James K. Karichu, Samantha Clark, Mindy M. Cheng, Louis P. Garrison, Maciej B. Maniecki, and Saeed Hamid
Treatment of chronic hepatitis D with peginterferon lambda-the phase 2 LIMT-1 clinical trial, Ohad Etzion, Saeed Hamid, Yoav Lurie, Edward J. Gane, David Yardeni, Sarah Duehren, Nimrah Bader, Anat Nevo-Shor, Minaz Mawani, and Om Parkash
Optimizing antibiotic duration for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis prophylaxis: Time to rethink, Manesh K. Gangwani, Abeer Aziz, Fnu Priyanka, Wade Lee Smith, Muhammad Aziz, and Mona Hassan
Ensuring competence of essential skills: Clinical examination for final year medical students, Faisal Wasim Ismail, Rashida Ahmed, Sadaf Khan, and Sara Shakil
Gastric schwannoma: A rare subepithelial lesion of the stomach, Sameeta Kumari, Muhammad Ibrahim Saeed, and Adeel Ur rehman
Enhancing interventions for prevention of mother-to-child- transmission of hepatitis B virus, Philippa C. Matthews, Ponsiano Ocama, Su Wang, Manal El-Sayed, Anna Turkova, Deborah Ford, Judith Torimiro, Ana Cristina Garcia Ferreira, Angélica Espinosa Miranda, and Saeed Hamid
Hepatitis C prevalence and elimination planning in Pakistan, a bottom-up approach accounting for provincial variation, Ellen Mooneyhan, Huma Qureshi, Hassan Mahmood, Muhammad Tariq, Nabeel Ahmed Maqbool, Masood Anwar, Mujahid Aslam, Sarah Blach, Aamir Ghafoor Khan, and Saeed Hamid
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in Asia, Africa, and Middle East region, Janus Ong, Khalid Alswat, Saeed Hamid, and Mohamed El-Kassas
Rare but critical: Aberrant vascular communication leading to multiorgan ischemia after prophylactic gastroduodenal artery embolization for refractory upper gastrointestinal bleeding, Muhammad Ibrahim Saeed, Amna Subhan Butt, Jahanzeb Shahid, and Junaid Iqbal
Identifying the early predictors of non-response to steroids in patients with flare of autoimmune hepatitis causing acute-on-chronic liver failure, Sanchit Sharma, Samagra Agarwal, Anoop Saraya, Ashok Kumar Choudhury, Sanjiv Saigal, A. S. Soin, Akash Shukla, Manoj K. Sahu, Laurentius A. Lesmana, and Saeed Hamid
INASL-SAASL consensus statements on NAFLD name change to MAFLD, Shivaram P. Singh, Ajay Duseja, Mamun Al Mahtab, Prajna Anirvan, Subrat K. Acharya, Sheikh Mohammad Fazle Akbar, Amna Subhan Butt, Anuradha Dassanayake, Arka De, and Saeed Hamid
Elimination of HDV: Epidemiologic implications and public health perspectives, Areeba Tharwani and Saeed Hamid
Improving primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding by adapting therapy to the clinical stage of cirrhosis. A competing-risk meta-analysis of individual participant data, Càndid Villanueva, Victor Sapena, Gin Ho Lo, Yeon Seok Seo, Syed H Shah, Virendra Singh, Dhiraj Tripathi, Michael Schepke, Zahid Azam, and Pramod Kumar
Viral hepatitis in Asia-Pacific: A post-COVID-19 reset, Jack Wallace, Saeed Hamid, Rosmawati Mohamed, and Tzu Wong
Clinical and patient-reported outcome profile of patients with hepatitis B viral infection from the Global Liver Registry™, Zobair M. Younossi, Ming-Lung Yu, Yusuf Yilmaz, Khalid Aida Alswat, Maria Buti, Marlen Ivon Castellanos Fernandez, Georgios Papatheodoridis, Saeed Hamid, Mohamed El-Kassas, and Wah Kheong Chan
A common presentation of uncommon disease - biliary fasciola hepatica, Mian Shah Yousaf, L. Kamani, Ghulam Fareed, and Arbab Muhammad Kashif Khan
An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on MAFLD and the risk of CVD, Xiao-Dong Zhou, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Virend Somers, Seung Up Kim, C Anwar A. Chahal, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Jingjing Cai, Michael D. Shapiro, and Saeed Hamid
An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on MAFLD and the risk of CVD, Xiao-Dong Zhou, Giovanni Targher, Christopher D. Byrne, Virend Somers, Seung Up Kim, C Anwar A. Chahal, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Jingjing Cai, Michael D. Shapiro, and Saeed Hamid
Submissions from 2022
Oral n-acetyl cysteine versus rectal indomethacin for prevention of post ercp pancreatitis: A multicenter multinational randomized controlled trial, Pezhman Alavinejad, Nguyen-Phuong Nhu Tran, Omid Eslami, Omar El Shaarawy, Omar El Shaarawy, Ahmad Hormati, Seied Saeed Seiedian, Abazar Parsi, Mohammed Hussien Ahmed, and Amna Subhan Butt
Road to recompensation: Baveno VII criteria and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in liver cirrhosis, Muhammad Aarish Anis, Ammara Abdul Majeed, and Shahab Abid
Viral hepatitis - The road traveled and the journey remaining, Ghulam Fareed Malik, Noval Zakaria, Muhammad Ibrahim Majeed, and Faisal Wasim Ismail
Diagnostic accuracy of artificial intelligence for detecting gastrointestinal luminal pathologies: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Om Parkash, Asra Tus Saleha Siddiqui, Uswa Jiwani, Fahad Rind, Zahra Ali Padhani, Arjumand Rizvi, Zahra Hoodbhoy, and Jai K. Das
Diagnostic value of endoscopic ultrasonography for common bile duct dilatation without identifiable etiology detected from cross-sectional imaging, Nonthalee Pausawasdi, Penprapai Hongsrisuwan, Lubna Kamani, Kotchakon Maipang, and Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya
Survival outcomes of patients with concomitant acute variceal bleeding and acute coronary syndrome, and the role of antiplatelet agents: an institutional experience from a lower middle-income country, Shameel Shafqat, Ajeet Kumar Lohana, Rajesh Kumar, and Om Parkash
APASL-ACLF Research Consortium-Artificial Intelligence (AARC-AI) model precisely predicts outcomes in acute-on-chronic liver failure patients, Nipun Verma, Ashok Choudhury, Virendra Singh, Ajay Duseja, Manum Al-Mahtab, Harshad Devarbhavi, Chundamannil E. Eapen, Saeed Hamid, Wasim Jafri, and Amna Subhan Butt
Carvedilol reduces the risk of decompensation and mortality in patients with compensated cirrhosis in a competing-risk meta-analysis, Càndid Villanueva, Ferran Torres, Shiv Kumar Sarin, Syed Hasnain Alishah, Dhiraj Tripathi, Anna Brujats, Susana G. Rodrigues, Ankit Bhardwaj, Zahid Azam, and Shahab Abid
Severe impairment of patient-reported outcomes in patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection seen in real-world practices across the world: Data from the global liver registry, Zobair M. Younossi, Ming-Lung Yu, Mohamed El-Kassas, Gamal Esmat, Marlen I. Castellanos Fernández, Maria Buti, Georgios Papatheodoridis, Yusuf Yilmaz, Vasily Isakov, and Saeed Hamid
Submissions from 2021
Creating hospital spaces for coronavirus disease 2019 in Pakistan, Aysha Almas and Om Parkash
Applying a mixed-method approach to improve on-the-job learning and job satisfaction in a cohort of interns at a university hospital, Amna Subhan Butt, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, M Asghar Ali, Farah Naz Qamar, Irum Qamar Khan, Swaleha Tariq, Syeda Amrah Hashmi, Quratulain Hafeez, and Muhammed Tariq
Perception of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Real-life experience from Pakistan, Nazish Butt, Muhammad Ali Khan, Lajpat Rai, Riaz Hussain Channa, Hanisha Khemani, and Amanullah Abbasi
'First week' is the crucial period for deciding living donor liver transplantation in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure, Ashok Choudhury, Rajan Vijayaraghavan, Rakhi Maiwall, Manoj Kumar, Zhongping Duan, Chen Yu, Saeed Hamid, Wasim Jafri, Amna Subhan Butt, and Zaigham Abbas
Drug-induced liver injury: Asia pacific association of study of liver consensus guidelines, Harshad Devarbhavi, Guruprasad Aithal, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Hajime Takikawa, Yimin Mao, Saggere M. Shasthry, Saeed Hamid, Soek Siam Tan, Cyriac Abb Philips, and Wasim Jafri
Impact of metabolic risk factors on the severity and outcome of patients with alcohol-associated acute-on-chronic liver failure, Ajay Duseja, Arka De, Sunil Taneja, Ashok Kumar Choudhury, Harshad Devarbhavi, Jinhua Hu, Saeed Hamid, Amna Subhan Butt, Wasim Jafri, and Hasmik Ghazinian
WGO guidance for the care of patients with COVID-19 and liver disease, Saeed Hamid, Mario R Alvares da Silva, Kelly W. Burak, Tao Chen, Joost P H. Drenth, Gamal Esmat, Rui Gaspa, Douglas LaBrecque, Alice Lee, and Guilherme Macedo
Challenges during colonoscopy in women with a prior hysterectomy, Lubna Kamani, Nazish Butt, and Hanisha Khemani
Rising trend of women in gastroenterology: A paradigm shift, Lubna Kamani and Jeanin E Van Hooft
Hepatitis E: Genotypes, strategies to prevent and manage, and the existing knowledge gaps, Lubna Kamani, Zahra Ali Padhani, and Jai K. Das
APASL clinical practice guideline on hepatitis B reactivation related to the use of immunosuppressive therapy, George Lau, Ming-Lung Yu, Grace Wong, Alexander Thompson, Hasmik Ghazinian, Jin-Lin Hou, Teerha Piratvisuth, Ji-Dong Jia, Masashi Mizokam, and Saeed Hamid
Uniting the global gastroenterology community to meet the challenge of climate change and nonrecyclable waste, Desmond Leddin, M Bishr Omary, Andrew Veitch, Geoffrey Metz, Naima Amrani, Lars Aabakken, Raja A R. Ali, Mario R. Alvares-da-Silva, Saeed Hamid, and Amna Subhan Butt
Uniting the global gastroenterology community to meet the challenge of climate change and non-recyclable waste, Desmond Leddin, M Bishr Omary, Andrew Veitch, Geoffrey Metz, Naima Amrani, Lars Aabakken, Raja Affendi Raja Ali, Mario Reis Alvares-Da-Silva, Saeed Hamid, and Amna Subhan Butt
Health and economic benefits of achieving hepatitis C virus elimination in Pakistan: A modelling study and economic analysis, Aaron G. Lim, Nick Scott, Josephine G. Walker, Saeed Hamid, Margaret Hellard, and Peter Vickerman
Demonstrating competence in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancratico graphy (ERCP): Recently credentialed operator's performance for deep biliary cannulation over 1 year period from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Om Parkash, Umar Bhatti, Hasnain Zafar, and Saeed Hamid
Gastric volvulus in adults in a tertiary care hospital Karachi, Pakistan: A case series, Om Parkash, Roger Christopher Gill, Iman Qaiser, Muhammad Sharoz Rabbani, Tabish Chawla, and Hasnain Zafar
Updates on the diagnosis and management of hepatocellular carcinoma, Aimun Raees, Muhammad Kamran, Hasan Özkan, and Wasim Jafri
Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 on prevention and elimination strategies for hepatitis B and hepatitis C, Syed Tabish Rehman, Hareem Rehman, and Shahab Abid
The changing context of hepatitis D, Mario Rizzetto, Saeed Hamid, and Franco Negro
The changing scenario of hepatitis D, Mario Rizzetto, Saeed Hamid, and Franco Negro
Infiltrative gallbladder tuberculosis versus locally infiltrating tumour of the gallbladder: A diagnostic dilemma unmasked by histopathology, Asra Tus Saleha Siddiqui and Om Parkash
Malnutrition and liver disease in a developing country, Asra Tus Saleha Siddiqui, Om Parkash, and Syeda Amrah Hashmi
Frequency and risk factors of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in Helicobacter pylori-infected dyspeptic patients: A cross-sectional study, Basit Siddiqui, Muhammad Kamran, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Rabeea Azmat, Zain Mushtaq, Saad Bin Zafar Mahmood, Muhammad Tahir Khan, Javed Yakoob, and Zaigham Abbas
Impact of compensated cirrhosis on survival in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure, Kessarin Thanapirom, Tongluk Teerasarntipan, Sombat Treeprasertsuk, Ashok Choudhury, Manoj K. Sahu, Rakhi Maiwall, Viniyendra Pamecha, Richard Moreau, Saeed Hamid, and Amna Subhan Butt
Dynamic assessments of hepatic encephalopathy and ammonia levels predict mortality in acute-on-chronic liver failure, Nipun Verma, Radha Krishan Dhiman, Ashok Choudhury, Sunil Taneja, Ajay Duseja, Virender Singh, Mamun Al Mahtab, Saeed Hamid, Amna Subhan Butt, and Wasim Jafri
Comparative accuracy of prognostic models for short-term mortality in acute-on-chronic liver failure patients: CAP-ACLF, Nipun Verma, Radha Krishan Dhiman, Virendra Singh, Ajay Duseja, Sunil Taneja, Ashok Choudhury, Harshad Devarbhavi, Saeed Hamid, Wasim Jafri, and Amna Subhan Butt
A global survey of physicians knowledge about nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, Zobair M. Younossi, Janus P. Ong, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yusuf Yilmaz, Yuichiro Eguchi, Mohamed El Kassas, Maria Buti, Moisés Diago, Ming-Hua Zheng, and Saeed Hamid
Clinical and patient-reported outcomes from patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease across the world: Data from the global non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH)/ non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) registry, Zobair M. Younossi, Yusuf Yilmaz, Ming-Lung Yu, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Marlen Castellanos Fernandez, Vasily A Isakov A. Isakov, Ajay K. Duseja, Nahum Mendez-Sanchez, Yuichiro Eguchi, and Saeed Hamid
Submissions from 2020
Drug induced liver injury is associated with high mortality- A study from a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan, Adeel Abid, Faryal Subhani, Farhana Kayani, Safia Awan, and Shahab Abid
Minimal hepatic encephalopathy: Effect of H. pylori infection and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth treatment on clinical outcomes, Shahab Abid, Muhammad Kamran, Adeel Abid, Nazish Butt, Safia Awan, and Zaigham Abbas
The global impact of COVID-19 on gastrointestinal endoscopy units: An international survey of endoscopists, Mohamed Alboraie, Alejandro Piscoya, Quang Trung Tran, Robin B. Mendelsohn, Amna Subhan Butt, Luciano Lenz, Pezhman Alavinejad, Mohamed H. Emara, Zouhour Samlani, and Ahmed Altonbary
Worldwide management of inflammatory bowel disease during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international survey, Charles N. Bernstein, Siew C. Ng, Rupa Banerjee, Flavio Steinwurz, Bo Shen, Franck Carbonnel, Saeed Hamid, Ajit Sood, Jesus K. Yamamoto-Furusho, and Anne Griffiths
Leaving no one behind: Towards equitable global elimination of hepatitis C, Elin Hoffmann Dahl, Hassaan Zahid, Khawar Aslam, and Wasim Jafri
The Asian pacific association for the study of the liver clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of metabolic associated fatty liver disease, Mohammed Eslam, Shiv K. Sarin, Vincent Wai-Sun Wong, Jian-Gao Fan, Takumi Kawaguchi, Sang Hoon Ahn, Ming-Hua Zheng, Gamal Shiha, Yusuf Yilmaz, and Saeed Hamid
Changing trends in biliary stenting for unresectable malignant perihilar obstructions, Lubna Kamani and Muhammad Arshad
Redesigning the Landscape for Women and Leadership: Insights gained from the covid-19 pandemic. On behalf of women in gastroenterology network Asia pacific (WIGNAP) and women in endoscopy (WIE), Lubna Kamani, Nonthalee Pausawasdi, Jeanin E Van Hooft, Amrita Sethi, and Sharmila Sachithanandan
Severity of disease from COVID-19 in patients with obesity and MAFLD: Is there an association?, Muhammad Kamran and Wasim Jafri
Personal protective equipment for endoscopy in low-resource settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: Guidance from the world gastroenterology organisation, Desmond Leddin, David Armstrong, Raja A Raja Ali, Alan Barkun, Amna Subhan Butt, Ye Chen, Harshit S. Khara, Yeong Yeh Lee, Wai Keung Leung, and Finlay Macrae
Effects and cost of different strategies to eliminate hepatitis C virus transmission in Pakistan: A modelling analysis, Aaron G. Lim, Josephine G. Walker, Nyashadzaishe Mafirakureva, Gul Ghuttai Khalid, Huma Qureshi, Hassan Mahmood, Adam Trickey, Hannah Fraser, Khawar Aslam, and Saeed Hamid
Over-the-counter drug causing acute pancreatitis, Swetha Parvataneni, Rajesh Essrani, Shehriyar Mehershahi, Rajesh Essrani, Ajeet Kumar Lohana, and Asif Mehmood
A rare cause of dyspeptic symptoms and anaemia in a young man, Hareem Rehman, Shahab Abid, Naila Kayani, and Ali Haroon
The medical impact of hepatitis D virus infection in Asia and Africa; time for a reappraisal, Mario Rizzetto and Saeed Hamid