POSTER PRESENTATIONS
1. “Audit of oesophageal stent placement in a teaching hospital trust over 3 years,
comparing outcome from endoscopy and radiology”
C Canavan
Leicester General Hospital
2. “Intestinal failure and small bowel bacterial overgrowth: associated risk factors”
S Cooper1, P Nightingale2, W Johns3, J Shaffer1
1. Intestinal Failure Unit, Hope Hospital
2. Wolfson Computer Laboratory, University Hospital, Birmingham
3. Nuclear Medicine Department Hope Hospital
3. “Look homeward angel”
J Dillon, A Brind, A Bohan
Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Stoke on
Trent
4. “The successful use of Infliximab in acute severe ulcerative colitis in a patient with
severe heart failure
A Gelsthorpe, I Williams, T Ngatchu
Department of General Surgery and Gastroenterology, Birmingham Heartlands
Hospital
5. “What is the nature of polyps detected in the bowel cancer pilot screening
programme?”
C Harmston, J Hunter, L Wong
University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire
6. “Case report: The effect of liver transplantation on iron homeostasis, through hepcidin
regulation. A case of alcoholic cirrhosis complicated by spur-cell anaemia”
T Iqbal, M Brookes, A Diab, D Ward, J Murray, C Tselepis, E Elias
University Hospital Birmingham
7. “Laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair and sleeve gastrectomy for gastro-oesophageal
reflux disease associated with morbid obestity”
V Korwar, M Peters, S Adjepong, A Sigurdsson
Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
8. “Is Budesonide and alternative to Prednisolone in the treatment of autoimmune
hepatitis?”
K Li, B Jones, A Hamlyn
Department of Gastroenterology, Russells Hall Hospital
9. “A bitter pill”
S Menon, J Butterworth
Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
10. “Severe oesophagitis and its complications are more common in women after the
menopause
S Menon1, P Nightingale2, J Butterworth3, N Trudgill1
1. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
2. Wolfson Computer Laboratories, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
3. Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust
11. “Is urinary drug excretion in spot samples from patients with ulcerative colitis (UC),
an objective measure of medication adherence within differing 5-ASA formulations
and dosage regimes?”
T Moshkovska1, E Ismail2, T Diu2, R Smith2, J Mayberry1
1. Digestive Disease Centre, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
2. Department of Chemistry, Loughborough University
12. “Gastrointestinal stomal tumour: an unusual presentation”
H Padmanabhan, S Singhal
Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
13. “Outcome in the treatment of chronic HCV infection in North Staffordshire”
J Pugh1, C Thompson1, T Cadwgan2, A Brind1, A Bohan1
1. Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital North Staffordshire
2. Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Stoke
on Trent
14. “A prospective randomised controlled trial of ethanol-induced tumour necrosis (ETN)
with or without adjvant external beam radiotherapy in the palliation of malignant
dysphagia”.
A Shah, C Grimley, I Brown, R Grieve, C Nwokolo, D Loft
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwick
15. “Incidence of C.difficile after provocative antibiotics: An intervention study of
changes in antibiotic usage to low incidence agents and the importance of infection
control measures with ribotype 027 infections
R Warren, M Fisher, H Steed, I Tanswell, P O’Neil
Departments of Microbiology and Gastroenterology, Shrewsbury and Telford NHS
Trent and Department of Medicine, Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital
NHS Trust
16. “An exudative pleural effusion complicating Polycystic Liver Disease: a case report”
K Woolnough1, A Palejwala 1, S Bramhall2
1. Department of Gastroenterology, Queen’s Hospital, Burton on Trent
2. Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham