Digestive system diseases

Identifying advanced fibrosis and providing appropriate treatment to people with NAFLD/NASH is important for averting disease progression

James O'Beirne · Richard Skoien · Barbara A Leggett · Gunter F Hartel · Louisa G Gordon · Elizabeth E Powell · Patricia C Valery

Research supports active case finding among of first degree relatives of people diagnosed with coeliac disease

Richard Muir · Anuj Sehgal · Jason A Tye‐Din · A James M Daveson

A 48-year-old woman presented with three days of nausea and vomiting and two days of worsening right-sided lower abdominal pain

Myung Seo Ko · Trine Gulholm · Konstantin Yastrebov

Testing for HCV infection should be better integrated into opioid treatment programs

Chris Tremonti · Maree Teesson · Christina Marel · Katherine Mills · Paul S Haber

Blood donor screening laboratories use different testing algorithms to diagnostic laboratories and may yield results which do not conform to the usual patterns with which clinicians are familiar

Christopher D Swan · Clive R Seed · Claire E Styles · Iain B Gosbell

Streamlined, convenient hepatitis C care promotes engagement with treatment by people at particular risk

Michael B MacIsaac · Bradley Whitton · Adrian Hubble · Shelley Cogger · Matthew Penn · Anthony Weeks · Kasey Elmore · David Pemberton · Jenine Anderson · Rebecca Howard · Una McKeever · Timothy Papaluca · Margaret E Hellard · Mark Stoove · David Wilson · Alisa Pedrana · Joseph Doyle · Nico Clark · Jacinta Holmes · Alexander J Thompson

The benefits of DAA therapy for children with HCV infection are now attainable in Australia in normal practice

Jessica A Eldredge · Michael O Stormon · Julia E Clark · Scott Nightingale · Brendan McMullan · Brooke Andersen · Christina Travers · Winita Hardikar

Comprehensive testing, monitoring, and treatment in primary care could save hundreds of Australian lives each year

Lien Tran · Benjamin C Cowie

Prison settings are risk environments for HCV transmission and should therefore be a priority setting for harm reduction and clinical and educational interventions

Rebecca J Winter · Yumi Sheehan · Timothy Papaluca · Graeme A Macdonald · Joy Rowland · Anton Colman · Mark Stoove · Andrew R Lloyd · Alexander J Thompson

Universal screening would be cost-effective only if the test cost is low and people receive appropriate clinical management

Yinzong Xiao · Margaret E Hellard · Alexander J Thompson · Christopher Seaman · Jess Howell · Nick Scott

Paracentesis is a low bleeding risk procedure which can be carried out safely even in patients with advanced cirrhosis

John J Harvey · Ralley Prentice · Jacob George

A 14-month-old girl was noted to have exfoliation of her peripheries on day 19 after orthotopic liver transplant for end-stage liver disease from extrahepatic biliary atresia

Jessica A Eldredge · Noel E Cranswick · Kathleen H McGrath

Future studies should determine if eating these specific types of cholate actually produces the same types of stool as those listed on the BSS

Guy D Eslick · Eloise G Eslick

An understanding of the landscape of clinical trials in pancreatic cancer available to the Australian population may assist in informing gaps and opportunities for future trial interventions and increased participation

Nadia N Khan · Harleen Basrai · Sue M Evans · Liane J Ioannou · Charles HC Pilgrim · John R Zalcberg · Gayle M Jones · Susan Hanson

A 38-year-old woman with longstanding Crohn’s disease presented with 7 months of a nonhealing widespread rash

Fleur W Kong · David Wong · Kendall Sharpe · Louis Pool · James Muir

A 32-year-old man with 15 years of intermittent bloody diarrhoea was diagnosed with ulcerative proctosigmoiditis

Kenneth K Cho · Yanna Ko · Kelly Nilsen · Christine Verdon · Giuseppe Femia

A 70-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and shortness of breath on the background of a one-week history of fevers, dysuria and headaches

Ajinkya Bhonsle · Mithun Nambiar · Michael Swan · Ralph Junckerstorff

The overall cancer detection rate increased and colonoscopy detection indicators were maintained during the 2020 lockdowns

Daniel Schneider · Michael Swan · Simon Hew

The estimated prevalence of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australia is higher than in Europe, particularly among Indigenous young people

Denghao Wu · Tristan J Bampton · Hamish S Scott · Alex Brown · Karin Kassahn · Christopher Drogemuller · Sunita MC De Sousa · David Moore · Thuong Ha · John WC Chen · Sanjeev Khurana · David J Torpy · Toni Radford · Richard Couper · Lyle Palmer · P Toby Coates

A 6-year-old girl presented with a 24-hour history of sudden onset, non-tender periorbital rash

Yi‐Teng Hung · Chun‐Bing Chen

Index cholecystectomy should be routinely provided to people over 50 with mild gallstone pancreatitis unless clinically contraindicated

Jian D Blundell · Robert C Gandy · Jacqueline Close · Lara Harvey

A 63-year-old man presented with headache, fever and decreased conscious state

Claudine Banal · Steve Lau · Sonalmeet Nagra · David AK Watters

This statement provides guidance to managing hepatitis B, recognising groups at increased risk of HBV infection and appropriate, timely screening strategies

John S Lubel · Simone I Strasser · Alexander J Thompson · Benjamin C Cowie · Jennifer MacLachlan · Nicole L Allard · Jacinta Holmes · William W Kemp · Avik Majumdar · David Iser · Jess Howell · Gail V Matthews

Evidence supports the establishment of a national TP-IAT program, delivered at sites with a concentration of expertise and experience

Jessica Eldredge · Michael R Couper · David J Moore · Sanjeev Khurana · John WC Chen · Jennifer J Couper · Christopher J Drogemuller · Toni Radford · Thomas W Kay · Tom Loudovaris · Michael Wilks · Patrick T Coates · Richard TL Couper