This special edition has been made to celebrate BASL's affiliation with Frontline Gastroenterology - listen to the team discuss the papers in this recent special edition.

Read the issue: https://fg.bmj.com/content/16/e1 

Participants:

Dr Oliver Tavabie - Deputy Editor at Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Hepatologist at the Leeds Liver Unit

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Historically patients with alcohol-related liver disease have received poor quality of care during their admission. In 2014, a guidance bundle was released by the the British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG) and British Association for the Study of the Liver (BASL) to address this issue. This toolkit has recently received an update to incorporate recent advances in care and improve its usability as well as accessibility. 

A panel of guests join the podcast to discuss the perils of "bundle fatigue", the importance of buy-in for implementing guidance, and QI strategies for bringing the updated bundle successfully to your practice.

Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit along with Dr Kohilan Gananandan, Trainee Editor at FG and Hepatology Registrar Royal London Hospital, interview Professor Stuart McPherson and Drs Lynsey Corless and Giovanna McGinty. Professor Stuart McPherson is based at the Liver Unit at Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust and is the deputy VP for Hepatology at the BSG. Dr Lynsey Corless is a Consultant Hepatologist at Hull Royal Infirmary and the NIHR Research Delivery Network National Specialty and Settings Lead for Hepatology. Dr Giovanna McGinty is a Specialist Gastroenterology Registrar at the North Bristol NHS Trust as well as an Associate Editor at FG. They are amongst the authors of the paper "Decompensated cirrhosis: an update of the BSG/BASL admission care bundle”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in April 2025.

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The use of anti-diabetic medications such as pioglitazone or GLP-1 receptor agonists in the management of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is discussed in this podcast.

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This podcast focusses on the Frontline Gastroenterology review paper on anti-obesity medications, authored by Dr Lisa Sharkey. From GLP1-RA GI side effects to nutritional risks, MASLD management and endoscopy considerations — this is a must-listen for every practicing and trainee gastroenterologist navigating the metabolic medicine revolution. Read the manuscript on this link: Anti-obesity drugs for the gastroenterologists

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This podcast is focused on the paper "Pancreatitis in children: practical management from the BSPGHAN Pancreatitis Working Group”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in February 2025. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, interviews the authors Drs Vangelis Giamouris and Tassos Grammatikopoulos from King's College Hospital Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/16/2/155

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Increased international travel has brought infectious diseases, once rarely encountered, into a broader setting. One such disease is Amoebiasis, which can be dangerous due to its possible presentation as inflammatory bowel disease. Deputy editor Dr. Aditi Kumar speaks with the authors of a recent paper on this subject, Dr. Joseph Cooney¹, Prof. Peter Chiodini² and Prof. Richard Pollok¹, titled "Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of amoebiasis"

1. Department of Gastroenterology, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

2. Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, London, UK

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This special podcast highlights the papers chosen to be part of the #FGCup, the annual Frontline Gastroenterology competition to choose the readers favourite review paper in 2024.

Dr Giovanna McGinty, a Trainee Associate Editor for FG and Gastroenterology Registrar at North Bristol Trust interviews (and contributes to the discussion) Dr Philip Smith, Editor in Chief of FG and Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, UK, Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor for FG and Consultant Gastroenterologist at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK and Dr Oliver Tavabie Deputy Editor for FG and Consultant Hepatologist at Leeds Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.

They discuss the following papers:

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This podcast is focused on the paper "Investigation of abnormal liver blood tests in patients with inflammatory bowel disease”, published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in September 2024. Dr Oliver Tavabie, Deputy Editor at FG and Hepatology Consultant at the Leeds Liver Unit, and Dr Giovanna McGinty, Trainee Associate Editor at FG and Gastroenterology SpR at North Bristol Foundation Trust, interviews the authors Drs Jenny Scott, Consultant Gastroenterologist at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, and Varinder Athwal, Consultant Hepatologist at Manchester University Hospital Foundation Trust.

Read the paper on the Frontline Gastroenterology website: https://fg.bmj.com/content/15/6/516.info 

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Dr Aditi Kumar, Deputy Editor of Frontline Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist in Wolverhampton, UK interviews Dr Benjamin Zare, Gastroenterology registrar and a clinical research fellow undertaking his PhD at St Marks Academic Institute, London UK and Dr Mark Samaan who is a Consultant Gastroenterologist with a sub-specialist interest in IBD working at Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust in London, UK, on the paper 'Effectiveness of risankizumab induction and maintenance therapy for refractory Crohn’s disease: a real-world experience from a preapproval access programme and early access to medicines scheme' published online in Frontline Gastroenterology in October 2024.

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