🩸 New in Frontline Gastroenterology:.Following on from the theme of less invasive investigations. Could an ingestable blood-detection capsule help triage acute upper GI bleeds?. 📍 First UK hospital experience:.• 10 patients, median age 76, high comorbidity.• 60% safely

🔎 Functional dyspepsia or gastroparesis?. Upper GI symptoms such as early satiety, fullness, pain, bloating & nausea pose a diagnostic challenge. 📊 This high-quality review explores:.• Why symptoms & delayed gastric emptying often don’t align.• The overlap in pathophysiology

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💊 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:.Immune checkpoint inhibitors & targeted therapies are transforming cancer care — but can trigger serious lower GI toxicities. From IBD-like colitis to perforation, this review maps the risks & guides management for oncologists & gastroenterologists.

RT @Gut_BMJ: Playful pandas at the unique Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. Read in this issue the….

🩸 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:. What’s the next step in cases of melaena and a negative OGD?. A UK multi-centre study, the largest of its kind so far, reports that panenteric capsule endoscopy (PCE) identified a bleeding source in 70% of patients and prevented unnecessary

📢 The September issue of Frontline Gastroenterology is out now!. This month’s highlights include:.🧠 Eating disorder risk in IBS, IBD & coeliac disease.🩸 Novel blood-detection capsule to triage upper GI bleeds.📹 Panenteric capsule endoscopy for unexplained melaena.♻️

🧪 New in Frontline Gastroenterology:. A great, hands on practical guide for practicing clinicians in lots of specialties. Iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) and anaemia of chronic disease (ACD) are among the most common forms of anaemia — but they overlap so and distinguishing them

RT @anjan_dhar6: Until Intestinal ultrasound becomes well established in every ibd centre in the U.K., a panenteric IBD capsule assessment….

💊 New in Frontline Gastroenterology:. Following on the theme of pill-cam investigations!. What do patients with Crohn’s disease really think about different monitoring tests?. In this qualitative study, patients who had experienced panenteric Crohn’s capsule (PCC),

🩸 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:. What’s the next step in cases of melaena and a negative OGD?. A UK multi-centre study, the largest of its kind so far, reports that panenteric capsule endoscopy (PCE) identified a bleeding source in 70% of patients and prevented unnecessary

📢 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ. Almost 1 in 5 patients with IBS are at risk of an eating disorder (ED) — over 3× higher than controls, and greater than in IBD or coeliac disease. 🔎 Using the SCOFF tool, risk was linked to younger age & co-existing mental health condition. ⚠️.

🩺 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:.Largest UK series of biodegradable stents (ABS) in ERCP across adults & children (n=132). ✅ Only 3% developed mild post-ERCP pancreatitis.✅ No stent-related adverse events. Can ABS spare patients repeat procedures & anaesthesia, cut costs, and even.

🫀 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:.Over 5 years, more than 250 patients with #HCC were assessed for liver transplantation at a major UK centre. 64% were listed and 86% of those received a transplant. Authors highlight the need for early palliative care discussions for those unfit for

🩸 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:.A 54-year-old with 6 years of recurrent variceal bleeding despite repeated endoscopic therapy & even an emergency TIPS. Yet the bleeding continued…. 🔍 Advanced imaging finally revealed the real culprit — changing the management completely. 💡 In

🌈 New in @FrontGastro_BMJ:.First UK focus group study on the experiences of transgender & gender non-conforming (TGNC) people living with #IBD. 👉 #IBD #LGBTQHealth #FOAMed. TGNC individuals (~262,000 in England & Wales) are under-represented in.

🚨 Hot off the press in Frontline Gastro!.Gastroenterologists and Upper GI surgeons collaborating for a Regional POEM service for achalasia established in NE England – from novice to independent practice in 6 years. 🩺 38 cases, all leaks managed conservatively, only 4 did not

Repost: ✴️ Brilliant ➕ informative review by @Drfattyliver et al. on Frontline Gastroenterology. that 💡 highlights the importance of evaluating the 🥗 nutritional status and 🏋️‍♀️ physical frailty of all patients with decompensated cirrhosis, ➕ provides clinical ⚒️ tools to

RT @GastroNW: Trends in eating disorder admissions to an acute NHS hospital: a retrospective review | Frontline Gastroenterology https://t.….