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May was highlighted by Professor Thomson attending the European Annual Paediatric Gastroenterology Meeting in Helsinki, where he was stepping down as the Chair of the European Paediatric Endoscopy Committee. The Society was kind enough to give him a personalised award and a look back at his endoscopy training career. Read…
Read full articleProfessor Thomson is lecturing at the Annual European Meeting in Helsinki at the beginning of May on a development which is now feasible to treat appendicitis by using a colonoscope rather than an operation and this is being done now in quite a lot of children outside the UK, and…
Read full articleListen 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…
Read full articleProfessor Mike Thomson took part in a Live Facebook Question and Answer session in association with London Medical Concierge. Watch the video here.
Read full articleI 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…
Read full articleQuite 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…
Read full articleMy 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…
Read full articleAfzal 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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