BACKGROUND Bamboo joint-like appearance is a common yet easy-to-miss endoscopic finding in the stomach of patients with Crohn's disease (CD). Bamboo joint-like appearance (BJA) is characterized by swollen longitudinal folds transversed by erosive fissures or linear furrows. However, whether BJA is observed during the remission stage of CD and during the active stage is unclear. In particular, t...

held each year in December, where we produce a collection of reviews from selected speakers, entitled BJA/PGA. Our publishers, OUP, are currently moving all of their journals to a new Highwire platform, which will present the journal content in a more attractive fashion. Coupled with this, we are setting up an increased online presence for supplements and will also create online bundles of arti...

The PostGraduate Assembly (PGA) of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists (NYSSA), one of the largest international gatherings of anaesthesiologists, continues its strong commitment to innovative approaches to education by once again sponsoring a special issue of the Journal to correspond to the meeting. The PGA has joined with the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) to produce the BJ...

As one of the largest international gatherings of anaesthesiologists, the PostGraduate Assembly (PGA) of the New York State Society of Anesthesiologists is committed to innovative approaches to ongoing education. Based on its commitment to continuing learning and the success of prior supplements, the PGA has again joined with the British Journal of Anaesthesia (BJA) to produce a special BJA/PGA...

OBJECTIVES The current parallel group, randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the dentoalveolar and skeletal changes resulting from treatment using two popular functional appliances: the Bite-Jumping Appliance (BJA) and the Twin-Block Appliance (TBA). STUDY DESIGN This study is designed as a parallel-group, randomized controlled trial. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients were screened from...

Myocarditis Associated with 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic in Japan organized by Japanese Circulation Society. A national survey on myocarditis associated with the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in Japan. Circ J 2010; 74: 2193–9 3 Schultz JC, Hilliard AA, Cooper LT Jr, Rihal CS. Diagnosis and treatment of viral myocarditis. Mayo Clin Proc 2009; 84: 1001–9 4 Oda T, Yasunaga H, Tsutsumi Y, et...

Sialic acid, as a terminal saccharide residue on cell surface glycoconjugates, plays an important role in a variety of biological processes. In this study, we investigated subclones of the human B lymphoma cell line BJA-B for differences in the glycosylation of cell surface glycoconjugates, and studied the functional implications of such differences. With respect to the expression level of most...

The hypothesis that anaesthetic and analgesic technique during cancer surgery affects recurrence or metastasis was first proposed in 2006 and has since become one of the most important research questions in the speciality, as confirmed in a recent research priority setting exercise. Building on the success of the inaugural BJA Workshop on Anaesthetic Neurotoxicity and Neuroplasticity held in Sa...