Butts & Guts: A Cleveland Clinic Digestive Health Podcast

While colonoscopy is the gold standard of colorectal cancer screenings, it's certainly not the only method to detect this disease. Cleveland Clinic Florida gastroenterologist Brenda Jimenez, MD, joins Butts & Guts to discuss how flexible sigmoidoscopies, FIT tests, and other screenings compare to a colonoscopy.

In 2020, Cleveland Clinic was the first hospital in the world to use a recently FDA-approved ablation technology that can destroy large liver tumors. Eren Berber, MD, Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Surgical Liver Tumor Ablation Program, joins Butts & Guts to discuss liver tumors, treatment options, and this innovative ablation procedure.

Michael Cline, DO, Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Gastroparesis Clinic, joins Butts & Guts to give a refresher on gastroparesis (partial paralysis of the stomach). Dr. Cline also gives an update on new research on the connection between certain autoimmune disorders and this disease.

Like with other organs, the need for liver donations outweighs the supply of available donors. Cristiano Quintini, MD, Program Director and Surgical Director of Cleveland Clinic’s Liver Transplantation Program joins Butts & Guts to discuss the importance of this surgery, common questions and misconceptions, and innovations taking place with living donor liver transplants.

Colorectal cancer is one of the leading cancer diagnoses for both men and women in the United States. As of May 2021, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommends that screenings for colorectal cancer start at age 45, as compared to the prior recommendation of age 50. Listen in as Butts & Guts host Scott Steele, MD shares his thoughts on this change.

In recent years there's been a rapid increase of fatty liver disease diagnoses. Dr. Jamile Wakim-Fleming, Director of Cleveland Clinic's Fatty Liver Disease Program, joins Butts & Guts to discuss this disease along with dietary and lifestyle changes that can improve the condition.

You may know someone (or maybe it's happened to you!) who has either had problems with gallstones or had their gallbladder removed. Diya Alaedeen, MD, Section Chief for the Department of General Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital joins Butts & Guts to discuss this common issue, how gallstones form, and how they're treated.

Hard to detect, pancreatic cancer is usually not found until advanced stages which leads to increased mortality. Listen as Robert Simon, MD joins Butts & Guts to discuss signs and symptoms you should know, as well as innovative surgical procedures that can remove affected tissue.

April is Donate Life Month, and Butts & Guts is excited to have Charles Miller, MD, Cleveland Clinic's Enterprise Director of Transplantation, join to discuss the important topic of organ donation. Learn about common questions and misconceptions about becoming a donor, and the innovative ways Cleveland Clinic's Transplant Center is providing better outcomes and quality of life for donors and recipients.

Each year, lives are saved and transformed because of innovative transplant expertise. Anil Vaidya, MD, Director of Cleveland Clinic's Intestinal Transplant Program, discusses incidence rates and types of intestinal transplants, when they are needed, and what's on the horizon for improving quality of life post-transplant.