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Welcome to the first edition of our eighth year of publishing Frontline Gastroenterology. With our seven year hitch of being citeable on PubMed now behind us, we look forward to continuing to receive more high quality submissions. Our initiatives for the editions ahead include strengthening the online presence of the journal with Image of the Month and Case of the Month series – so, if you have suitable clinical material for such, do consider submitting. The best material will be included in the print edition.

An update on the Child's-Pugh scale: identifying the cirrhotic patient for palliative care

The editor's choice paper in this edition of Frontline Gastroenterology deal is one that we believe will directly influence clinical practice.1 Following the wide international use of the Bristol Stool Form Scale in gut motility disorders, the city's academics have struck again. This time it is in the equally common presentation of end stage chronic liver disease. The unpredictable clinical course of patients with …

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