Frontline Gastroenterology

Your Privacy We process your data to deliver content or advertisements and measure the delivery of such content or advertisements to extract insights about our website. We share this information with our partners on the basis of consent and legitimate interest. You may exercise your right to consent or object to a legitimate interest, based on a specific purpose below or at a partner level in the link under each purpose.

ENDOSCOPY HISTOPATHOLOGY Data availability statement The data underlying this article are publicly available.

Background and objectives Patients with decompensated cirrhosis rarely receive palliative and supportive care interventions, which are routine in other life-limiting diseases. We aimed to design and evaluate a prognostic screening tool to routinely identify inpatients with decompensated cirrhosis at high risk of dying over the coming year, alongside the development of a supportive care intervention.

Iron deficiency anaemia and the anaemia of chronic disease are common. They share several similarities which can cause diagnostic confusion in clinical practice. Both may be indicative of serious underlying pathology, but the differential in each case is rather different. This review highlights the importance of accurately establishing the pattern of anaemia at an early stage, so ensuring that the appropriate management algorithm is followed.

Hepatic encephalopathy: Part 1, a diagnostic approach Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Read the full text or download the PDF: Read the full text or download the PDF:

X @@bhmullish Contributors MK: manuscript writing, literature review, collection of data, data analysis and intrerprentation. BSA: manuscript writing, literature review. BP: manuscript writing, literature review. MY: manuscript writing, reviewing the manuscript. RF: manuscript writing, reviewing the manuscript. CI-E: manuscript writing, reviewing the manuscript. MRT: manuscript writing, reviewing the manuscript, final approval of the manuscript.

RS and ADA are joint first authors. X @JamesMFranklin, @stumcp RS and ADA contributed equally. Contributors RS: substantial contributions to the conceptual framework, ensuring scientific rigor and clinical relevance of the guidelines; drafted the manuscript and final approval of the version. ADA: substantial contributions to the conceptual framework, ensuring scientific rigor and clinical relevance of the guidelines; drafted the manuscript and final approval of the version.

CIRRHOSIS HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA ULTRASONOGRAPHY SCREENING CHRONIC VIRAL HEPATITIS Introduction Liver cancer is the fastest-rising cause of cancer-related deaths in the UK.1 The most common primary liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), accounting for 85% of all primary liver cancers.2 Over 6200 people are diagnosed with HCC each year in the UK.

Multidisciplinary approach to malnutrition and physical frailty in patients with decompensated cirrhosis Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways. Read the full text or download the PDF: Read the full text or download the PDF:

Methods A group of specialists (hepatologists, gastroenterologists, acute medicine physicians, critical care physician, liver specialist nurse, pharmacists and dietitian) from BSG, BASL and the Society for Acute Medicine (SAM) was convened to update the bundle. The group was divided into subgroups to review each of the domains of the original DCCB.