Gabrio Bassotti

TL;DR: This Consensus Statement provides the first harmonized interpretation of commonly used terminology to describe colonic motor function and delineates possible similarities between motor patterns observed in animal models and humans in vitro (ex vivo) and in vivo.

TL;DR: The possible usefulness of a simplified pathological score to assess histological healing of the mucosa in inflammatory bowel diseases patients compared with four commonly proposed pathological scores is evaluated and seems apt to document histological healed mucosa, in a manner similar to the more complex scores.

TL;DR: The occurrence of side effects related to probiotic/synbiotic use in randomized controlled trials of IBD patients as compared with placebo is examined, highlighting the level of research effort still required to identify the most appropriate use of probiotics in IBD.

TL;DR: It is hypothesize that persistence of symptoms up to the development of irritable bowel syndrome might be due to a disturbance/impairment of the correct functions of the enteroglial intestinal network.

TL;DR: The aims were to evaluate the percentage of SDC subjects with a diagnosis of FC and IBS‐C and to compare demographic and clinical features, symptoms, and quality of life in the different SDC groups (FC, Ibs‐C, NRC).