Dr. Alex Knisely is talking to Dr. Lorenzo D ´Antiga of Bergamo about under-appreciated biliary disease after liver transplantation, the role of molecular studies in neonatal liver disease, and the long-ago shared times at King’s College Hospital before either man went grey : Liver disease and mis-spent youth .

Featuring:

Dr. Lorenzo D´Antiga

ESPGHAN Podcast Host: Dr. Alex Knisely

Production Management: Selma Ertl

Recording: Manuel Schuster

Dr. Alex Knisely is talking to Dr. Susan Hill of London about small-bowel disease that requires long-term parenteral alimentation. Short-bowel problems and the need for teamwork among care-givers are the themes principally addressed.

Featuring:

Dr. Susan Hill

ESPGHAN Podcast Host: Dr. Alex Knisely

Production Management: Selma Ertl

Recording: Manuel Schuster

Dr. Alex Knisely is talking to Dr. Andrew Barclay of Glasgow about gastrointestinal dystonia, a disorder or class of disorders now coming into focus for those who attend neurodevastated children. How is gastrointestinal dystonia to be recognised? Does administration of cannabinoids help?

We are talking to Dr. Marc Benninga of Amsterdam about the complex challenges that children with abnormal stooling, in particular faecal retention and “overflow” leakage, present to physicians, other care-givers, and families. 

Elena Cernat, of Leeds, is back from Copenhagen, where she attended the 2022 annual meeting of ESPGHAN.  She’s selected six presentations that intrigued her, presentations that to her represent advances on the clinical and on the basic-science fronts.  She’ll now tell us what we should know about and why. 

Today we’re privileged to hear Aglaia Zellos, of Athens, share her thoughts on the remarkably complex subject of acute liver failure in paediatric patients. We can only skim the surface of a topic worth an entire ESPGHAN conference and, so far, two summary papers — we may not address your favourite aspect — but we hope, and trust, that it will be interesting!

We are talking to Dr Lissy de Ridder of Rotterdam about button batteries — we need them, but how do we reduce the threat that they pose to children and how do we best treat the ingestions that we haven’t been able to prevent?

Featuring:

Guest: Dr. Lissy de Ridder

ESPGHAN Podcast Host: Dr. Alex Knisely

Production Management: Selma Ertl

Recording: Manuel Schuster

We are talking to Dr Marianne Samyn of King’s College Hospital, London, about the so-called “new hepatitis” in children, with liver failure, that has attracted much media attention — what is known so far, what ESPGHAN resources and recommendations are available to physicians who have patients in whom this disorder is suspected?

Featuring:

Dr Marianne Samyn

ESPGHAN Podcast Host: Dr. Alex Knisely

Production Management: Selma Ertl

Recording: Manuel Schuster

Today we are talking to Prof. Andreas Jenke of Kassel in Germany about necrotising enterocolitis, the interplay of immunologic and other factors that lead to this complication of immaturity, and approaches — especially breast-milk feeding — that hold promise in prophylaxis against this disorder.

Featuring:

Prof. Andreas Jenke

ESPGHAN Podcast Host: Dr. Alex Knisely

Production Management: Selma Ertl

Recording: Manuel Schuster

Today we are talking to Prof Nadja Haiden, until recently of Vienna and now, still in Austria, of Linz, about parenteral alimentation in immature and premature infants and the challenges that such therapy poses.