🔥🔥 Emoroid Digest 🔥🔥 What to do with that bulge in the stomach? Biopsy? EUS? Check out Dr. Emelogu’s visual summary on the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) clinical practice update on managing subepithelial lesions (SEL) seen on endoscopy! #EmoroidDigest #GITwitter #MedTwitter #LiverTwitter

Truly going to miss these humans! Many I’ve known for 6 years— they were my friends since medicine residency! Excited to watch your careers blossom & hope we all stay goofy and lively, like intern year, forever! ❤️ Chuma G. Obineme, MD Cicily Vachaparambil Cynthia Andrew Yu

🏅Congratulations to Dr. Vaishali Patel Vaishali Patel, MD MHS for being selected by the fellows as the winner of this year's Attending of the Year Award! Very well deserved!🥰

Couldn’t think of a more perfect candidate to receive the Attending of the Year award! Vaishali Patel, MD MHS is the role model that we all are so lucky to have!! Congrats!!

Coco Gauff went from being a kid in the stands to a US Open champion. Anything is possible.

🆕Published today🆕 🔴TIPS in patients with HCC: A systematic review ☑️TIPS resolved bleeding/ascites in >60% of patients, more effective for bleeding ☑️HE occurred in 15%–30% within 3 months ☑️Larger studies are required onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ue… #LiverTwitter #GITwitter

🔥🔥 Emoroid Digest 🔥🔥 Sarcopenia vs frailty? Sarcopenic obesity? Check out Dr. Veeramachaneni’s (Hima V) visual summary on the AASLD malnutrition in cirrhosis guidance to learn more and improve overall care for your liver patients!

🔑🔑🔑: ☠️Sarcopenic obesity= indepedent risk factor for mortality 📏Utilize measures including liver frailty index 🧪Vitamin/mineral screening & repletion 💪Protein, protein, & more protein #EmoroidDigest #GITwitter #MedTwitter #LiverTwitter

Catch some of our current & former Emory faculty at ACG!!! 🤩Vaishali Patel, MD MHS Dr Jennifer Christie Tanvi Dhere,MD

Emory GI taking over Vancouver at #ACG2023 😍 ACG Emory Department of Medicine #GITwitter #LiverTwitter

🤩Please also join us in congratulating our 3rd year Transplant Hepatology Fellow Dr. Hima Veeramachaneni, who matched with the Emory Critical Care Fellowship Program for 2024 – 2025!  We are super proud of you! 🥳

Excited for a future career in hepatology critical care! 😁😁

🔥🔥 Emoroid Digest 🔥🔥 When to use linaclotide? Prucalopride? As it is constipation awareness month, be sure to check out Dr. Veeramachaneni’s (Hima V) visual summary on the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) & ACG practice guideline on CIC with an easy to use reference table!

🔑🔑🔑: 📝 good history taking = 🔑 🥗 fiber = 1st line for CIC 💊 linaclotide & lubiprostone can help abdominal pain 🤰mag ox 🚫 in pregnant patients ⛔️ prescription agents 🚫 in mechanical obstruction 🧪 consider anorectal testing #EmoroidDigest #GITwitter #MedTwitter

We hear a lot about "leaky gut" in cirrhosis, but which gut segment is leaky and are certain bacteria 🧫 associated with leaky gut⁉️   Duodenum is the leakiest segment in cirrhosis, and certain bacteria are associated with leaky gut❕  #LiverTwitter journals.lww.com/hepcomm/fullte…

💡🌟Faculty Retroflexions🌟💡 🚨High yield!🚨 Dr. Ryan Ford gives us his brilliant insight regarding the AASLD guidelines for the assessment and management of MASLD/NAFLD. Please see our fellow’s (Nidah S. Khakoo, MD) associated visual abstract! #FacultyRetroflexions #EmoroidDigest

Cirrhosis and portal hypertension features a super activated RAAS system With all that vasoconstriction, what is keeping the glomerulus open? Prostaglandins If so, What happens if you give NSAIDs? 1️⃣diuretics stop working 2️⃣fluid builds up 3️⃣AKI If ascites, don’t use NSAIDs

Check out and our visual abstracts and podcasts in one place!! A must have app!! #EmoryGI #EmoroidDigest

A pt p/w AMS and jaundice. Tylenol level is 34. Last ingestion time is unknown. What treatments do you initiate? Not sure? Listen to our latest episode about a case of Tylenol toxicity and acute liver failure in the ICU with Kalaila Pais, MD and Hima V pulmpeeps.com/2024/12/10/91-…

Huge round of applause for all of our faculty who were recognized as Atlanta Magazine's Top Doctors of 2025 for Gastroenterology and Hepatology! 🎉