#GUT Blog: Hepatic encephalopathy is not a contraindication to pre-emptive TIPS in high-risk patients with cirrhosis with variceal bleeding

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Marika Rudler and Professor Dominique Thabut to do the next #GUTBlog on behalf of the International Variceal Bleeding Observational Study Group: a Baveno Cooperation.  Dr Rudler and Professor Thabut are from the Hopitaux Universitaires Pitie Salpetriere-Charles Foix, Paris, France. The #GUTBlog focusses on the paper “Hepatic encephalopathy is not a contraindication […]

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#GUT Blog: Caucasian lean subjects with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease share long-term prognosis of non-lean: time for reappraisal of BMI-driven approach?

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Ramy Younes and Dr Angelo Armandi on behalf of Professor Bugianesi to do the next #GUTBlog. Dr Younes MD PhD is affiliated to Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany and Dr Armandi MD is affiliated to Department of Medical Sciences, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, A.O. Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, […]

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#GUT Blog: COVID-19 in liver transplant candidates: pretransplant and post-transplant outcomes – an ELITA/ELTR multicentre cohort study

Professor El-Omar has chosen Professors Belli, Duvoux, Adam, Fondevila and Polak, on behalf of the ELITA (European Liver and Intestine Association) and the European Liver Transplant Registry (ELTR) Board, to do the next #GUTBlog. The #GUTBlog focusses on the latest paper “COVID-19 in liver transplant candidates: pretransplant and post-transplant outcomes – an ELITA/ELTR multicentre cohort study” which was published […]

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#GUT Blog: Guidelines on the management of ascites in cirrhosis – “Beethoven to Bedside”

Professor El-Omar has chosen Professor Guruprasad Aithal, Deputy Director and Theme Lead, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, to do the next #GUTBlog. The #GUTBlog focusses on the latest BSG and BASL Guideline, “Guidelines on the management of […]

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#GUTBlog Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice from the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Royal College of Radiologists and the Royal College of Pathology

Professor El-Omar has chosen Professor James Neuberger, Honorary Consultant Hepatologist at the Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham and Professor of Medicine at the University of Birmingham to do the next #GUTBlog.  The blog focusses on the “Guidelines on the use of liver biopsy in clinical practice from the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Royal College of Radiologists and […]

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#GUTBlog Guidelines on TIPSS in the management of portal hypertension

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Dhiraj Tripathi, Consultant Hepatologist from the Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and Dr David Patch, Consultant Hepatologist from the Royal Free Sheila Sherlock Liver Centre, UCL Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, London, to do the next #GUTBlog.  The blog focusses on the guidelines on transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt […]

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