Loren Laine MD, FACG joins Co-Editor-in-Chief Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, FACG to discuss the ACG Clinical Guideline "Upper Gastrointestinal and Ulcer Bleeding." Dr. Laine discusses risk assessment in the emergency department in order to identify very-low-risk patients who may be discharged, as well as the recommendation for high-dose PPI therapy after endoscopic hemostatsis. (25:55)

American Journal of Gastroenterology Author Podcasts

ACG Clinical Guideline: ACG Clinical Guideline: Upper Gastrointestinal and Ulcer Bleeding

K. Rajender Reddy MD, FACG speaks with Co-Editor-in-Chief Brian Lacy, MD on the new ACG Guideline Diagnosis and Management of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury. Dr. Reddy offers clinical pearls of wisdom for diagnosing drug-induced liver injury in patients and reviews the new recommendations. (24:17)

ACG Clinical Guideline: ACG Clinical Guideline: Diagnosis and Management of Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury

Amol Agarwal, MD talks with Co-Editor-in-Chief Brennan Speigel, MD on whether or not the use of mt-sDNA testing in the primary care setting is an appropriate diagnostic tool for colorectal cancer screening.(16:40)

Off-Label Use of Multitarget Stool DNA Testing in Primary Care

Join author Christopher Ma, MD, MPH and Co-Editor-in-Chief Dr. Brennan Spiegel as they discuss the newly published article on gender and food insecurities. Food insecurity represents a substantial public health challenge in the United States that differentially affects women compared with men. Alternative strategies may be required to meet the nutritional requirements for food insecure women. (17:16)

Gender Disparities in Food Security, Dietary Intake, and Nutritional Health in the United States

Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH, FACG talks with Co-Editor in Chief Dr. Brian Lacy about the new ACG Guideline Colorectal Cancer Screening 2021. She discusses the new screening recommendations for average-risk individuals as young as 45 to reduce indicdence of advanced adenoma, CRC, and mortality from CRC. (22:22)

ACG Clinical Guidelines: Colorectal Cancer Screening 2021

William D. Chey, MD, discusses the first report of duodenal confocal laser endomicroscopy abnormalities in patients with functional dyspepsia.

Evidence of Duodenal Epithelial Barrier Impairment and Increased Pyroptosis in Patients With Functional Dyspepsia

Mark Pimentel, MD, FACG, discusses the newly published ACG Guideline for Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

ACG Clinical Guideline: Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Monia E. Werlang MD of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville discusses how unidentified eating disorders can interfere with effective management of GI disease and its symptoms.

Assessing for Eating Disorders: A Primer for Gastroenterologists

Swapna Gayam, MD discusses her Red Section article on the carbon footprint of endoscopy procedures and methods that can help reduce this environmental impact, including reducing plastic wastage and energy consumption.

Environmental Impact of Endoscopy: “Scope” of the Problem

Sachin Wani, MD discusses the recent study published in AJG that examines endoscopic surveillance practices using data from the GI Quality Improvement Consortium Registry.

An Analysis of the GIquIC Nationwide Quality Registry Reveals Unnecessary Surveillance Endoscopies in Patients with Normal and Irregular Z-Lines

Jeff Mather, MS, and Raymond McKay, MD discuss their study examining outcomes of famotidine treatment for patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

Impact of Famotidine Use on Clinical Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19

C. Prakash Gyawali, MD, MRCP, FACG discussed the new ACG Clinical Guidelines on Esophageal Testing

ACG Clinical Guideline: Clinical Use of Esophageal Physiologic Testing

Rena Yadlapati, MD, MHS summarizes the new ACG Clinical Guideline on Achalasia.

ACG Clinical Guideline: Achalasia

Dr. Brian Lacy interviews Dr. Brennan Spiegel about a recent review article published in AJG: COVID-19 and the Digestive System by Ma; Cong; and Zhang.

COVID-19 and the Digestive System

Timothy B. Gardner, MD, FACG, summarizes the new clinical guideline on diagnosis, etiology, and treatment of chronic pancreatitis.

ACG Clinical Guideline: Chronic Pancreatitis

Each month the Co-Editors-in-Chief Dr. Brian E. Lacy and Dr. Brennan Spiegel interview authors of clinically relevant articles published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology (AJG). A must-listen for any practicing gastroenterologist.

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