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West Midlands Deanery
Joined March 2015
Missed our presentation of the pilot results at BSG LIVE'24 this year? Please sign up and watch our session on key areas, which cause PEUGIC and how we can work together to improve endoscopy quality. @BritSocGastro @BSGTrainees @JAG_Endoscopy @Augishealth @BSGTrainees
Less than 3️⃣ weeks to go until the #BSGLIVE24 on-demand platform closes! Make sure you catch up on any sessions you missed from this year's annual conference by 8th August 🙌 Sign up for on-demand access here 👇 bit.ly/3JxXCNU
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📣Gastroenterology Trainees📣 Concerned about your training? Always on call? Not getting to endoscopy? Not getting GI bleed training? 🚩 We need YOU to tell us! The 2024 BSG training survey is open and should have reached you through your local rep. Please DM us if it hasn’t
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A big thank you to everyone who's taken the time to be part of the project and the team at @HDI_Cambridge helping run the project so smoothly. Together, we have completed over 2600 cases, which is a huge achievement. Join us at #bsglive2024, where we will discuss pilot results.
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Well done to @JulianYeh4 for presenting results from our mcarma study looking at microscopic colitis at ##bsglive2024. Thank you to @GutsCharityUK for supporting this work on an important underserved condition. @BSGTrainees @BritSocGastro
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Causes of chronic diarrhoea with a normal colonoscopy 🔦 #MedTwitter
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1/3... Asymptomatic man attending for bowel cancer screening colonoscopy (FIT>120) in the UK national programme. This lesion in the rectum
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🆕 ESGE non-variceal upper GI bleed guidelines 2021 ✳️ Main recommendations 👇 ✳️ Full list in PDF link thieme-connect.com/products/…
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My dear friend and mentor @sauid_ishaq was awarded a PhD today for his lifetime’s work on Zenker’s diverticulum. It teaches me that it doesn’t matter where you are in life - as long as you have a dream, it can be achieved!🤞 I have so much pride and respect for him! 💜🙇🏻‍♂️🥳👏
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WMRIG retweeted
🔥off the 🗞 . Delighted to share 🇬🇧 study #PROTECTASUC @LancetGastroHep 🛑Dual challenge in #IBD #ASUC : Need 🏥 Tx, High dose steroids & 🦠: 🤔🧨 high dose steroids, immunosupp ,disease activity. Mx and outcomes 👇- overall reassuring ❇️ thelancet.com/journals/langa…
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Live at #BSGCampus: Kicking off our closing session is Arthur Hurst Lecture award winner @RFitzgerald_lab presenting on pioneering technologies for earlier detection of #GIcancer
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Lynch Syndrome (aka HNPCC) 👨🏻‍⚕️ Henry Lynch 1966 🧬 MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2 ✳️ 50%➡️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 🔎 1/500; 3% of all CRCs ⚠️ Cancers👇 👨🏻‍🏫 Amsterdam criteria (3-2-1 ✅): 3️⃣ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 with CRC (1x FDR) 2️⃣ generations 1️⃣ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Dx <50yrs 🔦 Screening (50-80%➡️CRC) 🏁 Age 25 (35 if MSH6/PMS2) 🗓 2yrs
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BSG Campus created history by opening its 2021 virtual conference with a talk on Climate Change. Endoscopy priority area for making sustainability changes. We are going to have this in our new Bishop’s Endoscopy Unit. @CDDFTNHS @BritSocGastro @sue_jacques – at Darlington, England
Brilliant talk @fgodlee EIC of @bmj_latest at #BSGCampus on *OUR* role in combating #ClimateEmergency . Proud to see paper from @GreenEndoscopy 🌟 #StartTheConversation @BritSocGastro @williamstablef1 @DrBuHayee @anjan_dhar6 @gastrosid @drkeithsiau @dremmaw @swapnagayam
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When to start anticoagulation for portal vein thrombosis 👇 A wonderful review and decision tree by @dtrip2015 👏👏 #LiverTwitter #MedEd bsg.org.uk/clinical-articles…
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Dear #LiverTwitter, for a patient with cirrhosis, portal vein thrombosis, and Grade 2 oesophageal varices with no high risk of bleeding, what would you do?
36%Band ligation 🔘
48%Beta blocker 💊
7%Depends / Other 🤔
8%Just curious 🤷🏻‍♂️
615 votes • Final results
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Haraldsson classification: useful for predicting whether a native papilla will be hard to cannulate #ERCP👍 References: bit.ly/38SK1yA bit.ly/2XOJCGX bit.ly/38SK7WY
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It is good practice to do whatever you want to do before touching the obvious cancer and then don't touch anything else after that. You can still do everything that you want to do, it is just the sequence, touch the cancer last!
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‼️🆕 In @Gut_BMJ, more evidence of the risk of tumour seeding via the endoscope biopsy 🎯 channel ⚠️ This time, viable oesophageal cancer cells were found in 🔦 biopsy channels after ✂️/🎯 💡Once cancer is biopsied, do not 🎯 anything else ⚠️ bit.ly/2N7G1l7
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Where should ascitic drains be placed? 📍 Delighted to share our letter and this beautiful infographic in @Gut_BMJ, courtesy of @robson_visuals and @stevenbollipo. Please check it out! #LiverTwitter #GOALiver gut.bmj.com/content/early/20…
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Where would you biopsy this gastric ulcer?
62%Ulcer edge
8%Ulcer base
28%Both
2%What’s an ulcer?
263 votes • Final results
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