Reviewer's report 
 Gastroparesis in Patients with Inactive Crohns Disease: a case series Title: 
 1  13 November 2006 Version: Date: 
 Russell Heigh Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General This is an interesting and helpful case series. It should be published as it will be helpful to other 
physicians who treat patients with IBD. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached)None. 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct)My only suggestions are that the report would be improved if 1)the authors 
included the dates that the 4 cases were identified (for example, 2000-2005, etc) and 2) the number of other 
IBD patients seen was included (for example, between 2000 and 2005 a total of 1000 other patients with 
IBD were seen). These two pieces of information gives the reader an idea of how common this condition 
may be. The work is publishable without this data, but it is less useful. 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after discretionary revisions What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
Reviewer's report 
 Gastroparesis in Patients with Inactive Crohns Disease: a case series Title: 
 1  13 November 2006 Version: Date: 
 Russell Heigh Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General This is an interesting and helpful case series. It should be published as it will be helpful to other 
physicians who treat patients with IBD. 
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Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached)None. 
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Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct)My only suggestions are that the report would be improved if 1)the authors 
included the dates that the 4 cases were identified (for example, 2000-2005, etc) and 2) the number of other 
IBD patients seen was included (for example, between 2000 and 2005 a total of 1000 other patients with 
IBD were seen). These two pieces of information gives the reader an idea of how common this condition 
may be. The work is publishable without this data, but it is less useful. 
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Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after discretionary revisions What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
Please review this paper.
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Reviewer's report 
 Gastroparesis in Patients with Inactive Crohns Disease: a case series Title: 
 1  13 November 2006 Version: Date: 
 Russell Heigh Reviewer: 
Reviewer's report: 
General This is an interesting and helpful case series. It should be published as it will be helpful to other 
physicians who treat patients with IBD. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Major Compulsory Revisions (that the author must respond to before a decision on publication can be 
reached)None. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Minor Essential Revisions (such as missing labels on figures, or the wrong use of a term, which the author 
can be trusted to correct)My only suggestions are that the report would be improved if 1)the authors 
included the dates that the 4 cases were identified (for example, 2000-2005, etc) and 2) the number of other 
IBD patients seen was included (for example, between 2000 and 2005 a total of 1000 other patients with 
IBD were seen). These two pieces of information gives the reader an idea of how common this condition 
may be. The work is publishable without this data, but it is less useful. 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Discretionary Revisions (which the author can choose to ignore) 
 Accept after discretionary revisions What next?: 
 An article of importance in its field Level of interest: 
 Acceptable Quality of written English: 
 No Statistical review: 
Declaration of competing interests: 
I declare that I have no competing interests. 
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