Gut is a leading international peer-reviewed journal in gastroenterology and hepatology, with an established reputation for publishing first class clinical research of the alimentary tract, liver, biliary tree, and pancreas. It is co-owned by the BSG and the BMJ Group. The current impact factor is 25.8, ranking 4th in the JCR Gastroenterology & Hepatology category. It has a Citescore of 46.7, ranking 3rd in the Gastroenterology category.
All members of the BSG get free access to Gut articles via the BSG website. However, this is often an underutilised resource. So now the BSG aims to bring Gut and the BSG members closer together by highlighting the best and most interesting articles recently published either online or in print in a ‘BSG Gut Highlights’ series each month. Our team of BSG Gut Ambassadors will write 250-word abstract summaries of Gut papers, from basic science papers to clinical original research, and from all the subspecialties and subsections papers are published with an issue of Gut.
We hope this will be a ‘staple’ and useful resource for BSG members and stimulate people to read the full papers, and even set up journal clubs in their NHS trusts to discuss them. These BSG Gut Highlights will be advertised on social media and via BSG emails – watch out for them and please do give us feedback via [email protected].
Pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs), including walled-off necrosis (WON) and pancreatic pseudocysts (PCs), are important local complications of severe acute pancreatitis. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided transmural drainage now sits as the preferred first-line approach for symptomatic collections, but it remains invasive and can lead to bleeding, perforation, longer admissions, and occasional mortality.
Studies have shown significant differences in microbiome patterns of patients with acute pancreatitis (AP). In this study, Ammer-Herrmenau et al. prospectively followed patients with AP from the Pancreatitis-Microbiome As Predictor of Severity (P-MAPS) I cohort.
Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a common disorder of a likely heterogeneous aetiology. Previous studies have shown two FODMAPs (fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and polyols), fructans and fructose, can interfere with gastric accommodation.