#GUTBlog: UK and Ireland Joint Advisory Group (JAG) consensus statements for training and certification in diagnostic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)

Professor El-Omar has selected Dr Manu Nayar and Dr Tareq El Menabawey to do the next #GUTBlog. Dr Nayar is a Consultant Hepatopancreatobililary (HPB) Endoscopist at the Department of Gastroenterology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK and Dr El Menabawey is a Consultant HPB trainee Endoscopist at the Pancreatobiliary Medicine Unit, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation […]

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#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: 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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