Letters to the Editor

In a recent issue, Rabeneck et al reported endoscopic specialty to be an important determinant of the effectiveness of screening colonoscopy but found no association between endoscopist colonoscopy vo...

We read with great interest the article by Kuiper et al. They evaluated the sensitivity and specificity of the Paris criteria for diagnosing autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cirrhosis (P...

We read with interest the letter by Moawad et al pertaining to our recently published article in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. We agree that balloon size and insufflation pressures would b...

We thank Baran et al for their comments on our recent article. As they note, there are errors in Figure 1. Although Figure 1 was correct as submitted by the authors, the figure keys within each panel ...

The comments of Professor Dent are greatly appreciated. Our current study did not measure transient lower esophageal sphincter relaxation, only esophageal pH. In all cases, acid reflux events preceded...

We highly appreciate Dr Khan's response and questions about monitoring serum immunoglobulin G (IgG) 4 levels in autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) patients. This is an important issue with significant impl...

Dear Editor:

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute protects the editorial independence in its journals and has welcomed the correspondence generated by the editorial by Dr George Triadafilop...

Dr Kisloff correctly notes that health care spending generally parallels national wealth. Still, he neglects to mention that in the United States, health care costs are 40% (or $650 billion annually) ...

With interest we read the special report by Arora et al regarding the use of proton pump inhibitors for gastroduodenal damage related to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or aspirin. In their Figur...