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Oral Ulceration and Diarrhoea
A 45-year-old Afro-Caribbean male presented with 3kg unintentional weight loss associated with watery diarrhoea in the antecedent 6 months and recent swelling of the lip and buccal mucosa.
April 2024 Gut Highlights
Endoscopic ultrasound guided lumen apposing metal stents (LAMS) are an alternative to percutaneous cholecystostomy for patients with cholecystitis who are not felt to be surgical candidates.
SSG Digest This! Stepping into a consultant job
Digest This! shows a different look and explores less clinical topics while focussing more on "conversation" about careers.
BSG Webinar: Managing Stress in Training and Practice
In this webinar we were joined by Dr Umakant Dave who shared his tips for managing stress & burnout and reviewed with us some literature exploring the role of mindfulness in clinical practice with an emphasis on gastroenterology.
March 2024 Gut Highlights
Resection margin may represent a quality marker for completeness of polypectomy.
Managing alcohol-related hepatitis and alcohol-related cirrhosis
Alcohol remains the most common cause of liver disease in the UK. The prevalence of this condition has risen sharply in the context of the COVID 19 pandemic and rise of co-factors which contribute to its severity, including mental health issues, obesity, and diabetes.
February 2024 Gut Highlights
Predicting residual neoplasia after a non-curative gastric ESD
Test and treat Helicobacter pylori (HP) in dyspepsia
H. pylori infection is an infectious disease which has the potential to cause severe complications including peptic ulceration and gastric cancer.
Endoscopy Workforce Education and Training
Endoscopy workforce education and training is multi-professional, mostly delivered within units by practice educators, mentors, peers, industry, assessors, and supervisors, is facilitated and developed by regional endoscopy academies and led by national organisations and programs such as those provided by the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and the Joint Advisory Group on Gastro-intestinal endoscopy (JAG).
Focus on wellbeing: Workforce retention and avoiding burnout
We really have no alternatives to paying attention to our Wellbeing and developing skills to enhance it. Mindfulness has been shown to improve our Wellbeing and there are other aspects of our behaviours that we can work on to improve our Wellbeing. Stress is inevitable, and we need a reappraisal strategy.
How I investigate abnormal liver function test in a patient with IBD
Abnormal liver tests are common in people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and identifying the causative aetiology can be challenging. Liver test abnormalities have increased with increasing immunomodulatory therapies. It is important that gastroenterologists have a framework to identify the cause of abnormal liver tests and assess individualised risk to benefit, in particular in the context of medical therapies for IBD.
January 2024 Gut Highlights
Persistent villous atrophy predicts development of complications and mortality in adult patients with coeliac disease - Schiepatti A, Maimaris S, Raju S et al.
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The BSG web team are looking for enthusiastic individuals to expand our current group of web article reviewers. This could be included as part of your CPD diary and could help enrich your own knowledge too. It is a rewarding process and allows us to support our members in their education. The articles are short but require professional review and constructive comments. The commitment will be sporadic but we do ask that you’re able to return the review in a timely fashion when requested. This is open to consultants, senior registrars (ST6 and above), specialist nurses or senior allied health professionals in Gastroenterology and/or Hepatology.
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