No abstract

Increased colonic bile acid exposure influences bowel habit and colonic transit time in patients with IBS. A high response rate to open label treatment with colestipol supports this, but placebo-controlled studies are warranted.

For at-risk patients, esomeprazole was effective in preventing ulcers in long-term users of NSAIDs, including COX-2 inhibitors.

Treatment with intravenous iron sucrose is effective, safe, well tolerated and superior to oral iron in correcting haemoglobin and iron stores in patients with IBD.

Background-In a retrospective study bile acid malabsorption was observed in patients with collagenous colitis. Aims-To study the occurrence of bile acid malabsorption and the eVect of bile acid binders prospectively in patients with chronic diarrhoea and collagenous colitis.