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Our superstar Hannah Walton presenting our inter-hospital bleed transfer data today - lots of interest and other sites addressing similar challenges to provide best coordinated care 🙌👇🏾#BSGlive24 BSG

Our F1 Dr Shizhang Liu poster on iv iron switch from ferinject to monofer presented today - we have now switched ! - good to hear others adopting similar policies in other trusts #BSGlive24

👇🏾our EGAR poster examining the utility of capsule endoscopy in the frail population - is it time to consider carefully selecting patient for SBCE based on CFS scoring ? #BSGlive24 Rebecca Grant leading on this one! 🙌 BSG

Great to see our GI ulcer score being externally validated in Birmingham by Nigel Trudgill and team ! Encouraging to see similar findings here #BSGlive24. Our prospective data coming soon ….. Rebecca Grant

"Small bowel bleeding in the frail elderly is most likely to be associated with angioectasia...Investigating these patients with small bowel capsule endoscopy is unlikely to alter management and clinical outcome." bit.ly/4etN4vL Is it time to #choosewisely and

Our EGAR team report the utility of SBCE in frail patients. Congrats to Rebecca Grant on getting this important work to publication.

Next up - validation our GI ulcer score allowing tailoring of FU gastroscopy in the high risk ulcers. Well done Rebecca Grant and team!

Evaluation of the Edinburgh Gastric Ulcer Score (EGUS) in clinical practice - new FG article, #onlinefirst at bit.ly/3OkTenh Rebecca Grant and colleagues show that adherence to their proposed protocol ⬇️ unnecessary OGDs by more than half (!) without missing gastric

Well done to Solomon Ong and Duncan Rutherford- Anne Ferguson and Derek Gillen Research Prizes today at the Scottish Society of Gastroenterology, Dunblane. Proud supervisor 🤩. SSG NHS Research Scotland CSO(Health)Scotland Institute for Regeneration and Repair Rahul Kalla Duncan Rutherford #ibd #crohns

An unmet need in GI bleed management -Triage of inter-hospital transfers? What is the best approach? Frontline Gastro BSG fg.bmj.com/content/early/…

Great Scot! 🏴‍☠️ This Edinburgh group has reduced unnecessary repeat OGDs with a locally developed gastric ulcer protocol! 🍽️ Key findings: ✅ 95.7% negative predictive value for gastric cancer ✅ No missed cancer diagnoses ✅ Reduced follow-up OGDs by 54% A safer, more

🔍👵👴 Small-bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE) in the frail elderly: Is it worth the risk? 🤔💉 Explore how frailty affects outcomes and why conservative treatment may be better for some in this work by Rebecca Grant Rahul Kalla ! ⚖️ fg.bmj.com/content/16/1/30 #SBCE #ElderlyCare

🤩 Very excited to announce our new impact factor 😊. FG going onwards and upwards 🚀 . Thanks to all our brilliant editors, reviewers and all of you who have submitted your fantastic work to the journal 🙏 👏. Remember we are a home for everyone, do continue to submit your work

Great to see such a fantastic journal flourishing under great leadership Phil Smith and team! Frontline Gastro

Next up - our brilliant F1 doctor Natalie reports on our data that gastric bx can be avoided in those with persistent HPylori by implementing revised and tailored eradication protocol. One small step towards green endoscopy! Frontline Gastro fg.bmj.com/content/early/…

📄 NEW in Frontline Gastroenterology Persistent H. pylori—to biopsy or not to biopsy? 🧫 In this UK audit of 51 patients: Median of 3 prior eradication attempts Culture positive in only 41% 86% resistant to both clarithromycin & metronidazole No resistance to tetracycline All

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With funding from Johnson & Johnson, and in collaboration with the Edinburgh Cardiovascular Imaging Group, Rahul and his team will use the newly installed full body PET/CT scanner in Edinburgh to gain insights into the disease processes that cause intestinal fibrosis. Johnson & Johnson