#GUT Blog: The management of adult patients with severe chronic small intestinal dysmotility

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Jeremy Nightingale, from the Department of Gastroenterology, St Marks Hospital, Harrow, UK and Dr Peter Paine from the Department of Gastroenterology, Salford Royal Foundation Trust, Salford, UK, to do the next #GUTBlog. The #GUTBlog focusses on the latest BSG Guideline, “The management of adult patients with severe chronic small intestinal dysmotility” published in Gut in […]

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#GUTBlog Adaptations to the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of acute severe UC in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a RAND appropriateness panel

Professor El-Omar has chosen Dr Peter Irving from the Department of Gastroenterology, Guy’s and Saint Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust, London and Dr Shahida Din from the Department of Gastroenterology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, to do the next #GUTBlog. The #GUTBlog focusses on the paper “Adaptations to the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of […]

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#GUTBlog Long-term colorectal cancer incidence after adenoma removal and the effects of surveillance on incidence: a multicentre, retrospective, cohort study

Professor El-Omar has chosen Professor Amanda Cross, Professor of Cancer Epidemiology from the Cancer Screening and Prevention Research Group (CSPRG), Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, to do the next #GUTBlog.  The blog focusses on the paper “Long-term colorectal cancer incidence after adenoma removal and the effects of surveillance on incidence: a multicentre, retrospective, cohort study” […]

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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 Mediterranean diet intervention alters the gut microbiome in older people reducing frailty and improving health status: the NU-AGE 1-year dietary intervention across five European countries

Professor El-Omar has chosen Professor Paul O’Toole to do the #GUTBlog this month. Professor O’Toole is a Professor of Microbial Genomics, Head of School of Microbiology and Principal Investigator in APC Microbiome Ireland, an SFI funded centre at University College Cork, Ireland. He leads a team in the Extremes of Life programme, examining the role of the […]

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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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#Gut Blog – Choosing Treatments in IBS: How Network Meta-Analysis Can Guide Our Practice

Professor El-Omar has chosen the prolific team from Leeds, UK, lead by Professor Alexander Ford to do our next, fantastic #GUTBlog.   Professor Ford’s research group has a long-standing interest in the evidence-based management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and published a large number of high impact publications in 2020 already, including in Gut.  Dr […]

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#GUTBlog Statins for cirrhosis: a research tale

For our next #GUTBlog, Professor El-Omar has invited Professor Jaime Bosch, Dr Juan Abraldes, and Dr Jordi Gracia-Sancho, from the Department of Biomedical Research (Hepatology), Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland, to write about their paper “Cirrhosis as new indication for statins” published in Gut in May 2020. “The inspiration to use statins for the treatment of cirrhosis came from a […]

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#GUTBlog Guidelines for the management of hereditary colorectal cancer from the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)/Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI)/United Kingdom Cancer Genetics Group (UKCGG)

For second #GUTBlog, Professor El-Omar has invited Dr Kevin Monahan, Consultant Gastroenterologist at St Mark’s Hospital, London, who is the first author of the “Guidelines for the management of hereditary colorectal cancer from the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)/Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland (ACPGBI)/United Kingdom Cancer Genetics Group (UKCGG)” published in Gut.   […]

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#GUTBlog New UK Guidelines on the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Adults from the British Society of Gastroenterology

For our first #GUTBlog, Professor El-Omar has invited Dr Chris Lamb and Dr Barney Hawthorne who are together the first and senior author of the British Society of Gastroenterology guidelines on the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults published in Gut.     Dr Chris Lamb is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Newcastle upon Tyne […]

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