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Contents
Advisory Panel
10
Foreword
12
David A Johnson, MD, FACG
President, American College of Gastroenterology (ACG)
Paper Abstracts
13
News Round-up
14
Current Issues
Clinical Nutrition—Its Ever-expanding Role in the Management of 16
Digestive Diseases
Eamonn MM Quigley, MD
President, World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) and Vice President, American College
of Gastroenterology (ACG)
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
New Techniques in the Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease 19
Shabana F Pasha, MD and Jonathan A Leighton, MD
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College, Scottsdale, Arizona
What the Clinician Should Know About the Role of the Immune System in 24
Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
Richard P MacDermott, MD
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Albany Medical College
Developments in Biologic Therapy for Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis 27
Geert D’Haens, MD, PhD
Gastrointestinal Clinical Research Center, Imelda Hospital
Hepatitis
Hepatitis B Vaccination in Adults—A Review 29
William M Cassidy, MD
1
and Justin Toups, MD
2
1. Louisiana State University-Health Science Center; 2. Earl K Long Medical Center, Baton Rouge
Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B—When to Start, When to Stop, and 32
When to Alter Therapy
Emmet B Keeffe, MD, MACP
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Advances in the Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B 35
Cihan Yurdaydin, MD
Professor of Gastroenterology, University of Ankara Medical School, Ankara
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