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Digestive system diseases

Medical education / Clinical skills

Diagnostic and therapeutic abdominal paracentesis

John J Harvey, Ralley Prentice and Jacob George

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (1): 18-21 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Peeling away from hypervitaminosis A: the importance of close monitoring in patients taking high dose vitamin A supplementation

Jessica A Eldredge, Noel E Cranswick and Kathleen H McGrath

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 582-583

Christmas competition / Winner

The Paediatric Aussie Chocolate Poo Scale

Guy D Eslick and Eloise G Eslick

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 591-592 Free

Perspectives

Landscape of clinical trials across the pancreatic cancer care continuum: an Australian perspective

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

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (10): 505-509 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Mycobacterium haemophilum in a patient with inflammatory bowel disease

Fleur W Kong, David Wong, Kendall Sharpe, Louis Pool and James Muir

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (8): 394-396

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Ulcerative colitis and acute perimyocarditis

Kenneth K Cho, Yanna Ko, Kelly Nilsen, Christine Verdon and Giuseppe Femia

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 559-561

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Acute abdominal pain from a zoonosis in Australia

Ajinkya Bhonsle, Mithun Nambiar, Michael Swan and Ralph Junckerstorff

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (9): 477-479

Research letter

Endoscopy volumes and outcomes at a tertiary Melbourne centre during the 2020 COVID‐19 lockdowns

Daniel Schneider, Michael Swan and Simon Hew

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 100-101 Free

Research

The clinical and genetic features of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australia

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 and P Toby Coates

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (11): 578-582 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Periorbital purpura following intense emesis

Yi‐Teng Hung and Chun‐Bing Chen

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (9): 454-454

Research

Cholecystectomy for people aged 50 years or more with mild gallstone pancreatitis: predictors and outcomes of index and interval procedures

Jian D Blundell, Robert C Gandy, Jacqueline Close and Lara Harvey

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (5): 246-252 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Streptococcus gallolyticus bacteraemia and colorectal neoplasia: an old association with a new name

Claudine Banal, Steve Lau, Sonalmeet Nagra and David AK Watters

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (6): 281-282

Consensus statement summary

Australian consensus recommendations for the management of hepatitis B

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 and Gail V Matthews

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (9): 478-486

Letters

Australian recommendations for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma

Alain Braillon

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 334-334.e1

Letters

Australian recommendations for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma

John S Lubel, Stuart K Roberts, Simone I Strasser and Nick Shackel

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 334-334.e1

Narrative review

Evaluation and management of rectal bleeding in pregnancy

Ralley Prentice, Aysha Al‐Ani, Tiffany Cherry, Julia Dixon‐Douglas, Jade Eccles‐Smith, Julia Matheson, Jeanne Tie, Iniyaval Thevathasan, Jacob J McCormick and Britt Christensen

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 377-382

Perspectives

South Australian experience with paediatric total pancreatectomy and islet autotransplantation for PRSS1‐associated hereditary pancreatitis

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 and Richard TL Couper

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 294-296.e1

Editorials

Eliminating hepatitis C in Australia needs informed patients and enabled GPs

Paul J Clark

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 318-319

Research letter

The clinical value of “exception item” colonoscopy (MBS item 32228)

Michelle Lee See, Antonio Lee, Roderick Roberts, Richard A Friedman, David G Hewett and Daniel L Worthley

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 94-95 Free

Research

The influence of the surveillance time interval on the risk of advanced neoplasia after non‐advanced adenoma removal

Zaki Hamarneh, Charles Cock, Graeme P Young, Peter A Bampton, Robert Fraser, Fang LI Ang, Feruza Kholmurodova and Erin L Symonds

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 465-470 Free

Research letter

Prescribing of direct‐acting antiviral therapy by general practitioners for people with hepatitis C in an unrestricted treatment program

Fergus Stafford, Gregory J Dore, Shawn Clackett, Marianne Martinello, Gail V Matthews, Jason Grebely, Anne C Balcomb and Behzad Hajarizadeh

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (7): 332-333 Free

Letters

Syphilitic hepatitis: an increasingly common presentation of an epidemic disease

Matthew Smale, William R Connell and Julien D Schulberg

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 190-190.e1

Letters

Schistosomiasis: a rare cause of gastrointestinal bleeding

Julia Lim, Shweta Sharma and Damian Dowling

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 139-139.e1

Narrative review

Endoscopic bariatric therapies for obesity: a review

Dominic A Staudenmann, Zhixian Sui, Payal Saxena, Arthur J Kaffes, George Marinos, Vivek Kumbhari, Patrick Aepli and Adrian Sartoretto

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 183-188

Research

Drug‐induced liver injury in Australia, 2009–2020: the increasing proportion of non‐paracetamol cases linked with herbal and dietary supplements

Emily Nash, Abdul‐Hamid Sabih, John Chetwood, Georgette Wood, Keval Pandya, Terry Yip, Avik Majumdar, Geoffrey W McCaughan, Simone I Strasser and Ken Liu

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 261-268 Free