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Interview with Prof Thomson

Listen to the following ESPGHAN Spotify Podcast link where Prof Thomson discusses interventional endoscopy with Dr. Alex Knisely. https://open.spotify.com/episode/79q4PmKA1WfPGxmVDnjdCX ‘Dr. Alex Knisely is talking today to Dr. Mike Thomson of Sheffield (England), a gastroenterologist whose true love is endoscopy – interventional endoscopy. Mike has contributed substantially to systematising approaches to…

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Button batteries are life threatening when swallowed by toddlers and young children

Button batteries are life threatening when swallowed by toddlers and young children – contact medical help immediately and go to hospital if this occurs – see video

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Professor Mike Thomson Facebook Question and Answer session

Professor Mike Thomson took part in a Live Facebook Question and Answer session in association with London Medical Concierge. Watch the video here.

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The Need for Endoscopy in Children

I have just published an article in Nature reviews of gastroenterology and hepatology which examines the need for endoscopy in children, including upper GI endoscopy and ileo-colonoscopy. The diagnostic positive yield, or another way of putting it is the number of children who have endoscopy in whom positive results are…

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Gastroenteritis and associated problems

Quite often we see gastroenteritis which then leads to a child’s gut being sensitised to various proteins such as cow’s milk protein, wheat protein, soya protein, egg protein or others and this can cause an irritable bowel syndrome-type picture in a child with crampy abdominal pain and what we call…

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Dr Mike Thomson is now a Professor

My Professorship in Paediatric Gastroenterology is a very great honour. This doesn’t change the way I practice medicine but is just a recognition of many years if academic work. It is something which is peer-reviewed and I am delighted to have made this leap and it, I suppose, does make…

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Managing constipation

Afzal NA – Clinical Research Fellow & Honorary Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Gastroenterology University College of London, Royal Free & Chelsae and Westminister Hospitals Thomson MA – Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer Royal Free Hospital and University College of London Constipation and Hirschsprung’s disease Normal bowel patterns are very variable…

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Gastro-oesophageal reflux

Article written by Mr Thompson Introduction: Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) is a symptom not a disease and refers to the involuntary retrograde flow of gastric contents into the oesophagus. It is present in the majority of infants and is illustrated by a spectrum from occasional physiological reflux through to the infant…

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Recurrent abdominal pain

Chronic or recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is one of the most commonly encountered events in childhood interfering in the normal lifestyle of up to 10-15 % of all children at some point and described first by Apley who emphasised the role of a thorough history and examination. (Apley 1958) A…

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