Steven Bollipo
@stevenbollipo
Director of Gastroenterology Associate Professor University of Newcastle, Australia 🇦🇺#Scopemanship @ESGE_news social media working group
Reducing a reverse alpha loop on the garden hose - simply pulling back only tightens, relax the tension, twist anticlockwise while gently pulling back! I wish they teach colonoscopy like this. @KapuriaMd @GutGirlMD @DCharabaty @BilalMohammadMD @rodriguezparra_ @renumathyd
1/ Scoping Superstar 🔦 ▪️understand your toolbox early on ▪️scoping is an art, not a race ▪️learn both what you see and don’t see ▪️ergonomics are key ▪️celebrate your scoping milestones ▪️every attending scopes differently; learn and practice all their nuances
Had an amazing time at @ASGEendoscopy #FirstYearFellows endoscopy course! Learned so much and met some great people 🤩✨ Huge thank you to the faculty and course directors @rmulkimd & #StephenKim for a ⭐️ course!
An important study on EUS guided PVP !! Your take on this ? @ebtapper @helpatologist @stevenbollipo @SahajRathi @RoyAHep @drnipunverma @emadelomar @htevethia #liverx @LiverFellow gut.bmj.com/content/early/…
Congratulations to all the authors especially @DrLakhtakia and and @Aniruddha for an important study in GUT
A bombshell metaanalysis just landed in @AGA_CGH : Advanced therpies work better in colonic #Crohn vs. Ileal dis 😱 aTNFs/aIL23-aIL12/23 were all more effective in the colon, aIntegrin same efficacy in both(?), and JAKi were ONLY EFFECTIVE IN COLON.... cghjournal.org/article/S1542-…
Here is the amazing summary of the many gems in the quick tips for #colonoscopy thread. Thanks @enrrikke for this beautiful work!
🚨 Attention 1️⃣st year GI fellows 🚨 Enjoying your first few weeks of fellowship? Still struggling to find your feet? 😬 🌟 Check out our GI Fellow Handbook 📖 💡 A nifty guide for tips, tricks, and advice for those formulative early months ✅ ✍️ BY 1st years ✍️ FOR 1st years
Yes, when I walk around in hospital corridors tired and stressed on busy days, I remind myself, “but I am not the patient here, my suffering is nothing compared to theirs!”
Let’s talk prep baby! Apologies to my fellows for embarrassing them with that joke! 🙃 But this is an important topic! ✅ Isosmotic (PEG-based) Preps • High-volume (4L): GoLYTELY, CoLyte • Low-volume (2–3L): MoviPrep, Plenvu (contain ascorbic acid) ✔️ Preferred for most…
Depression and anxiety affect nearly 1️⃣ of 2️⃣ patients with liver disease, yet often go unaddressed... 😫 Our latest editorial in @HepCommJournal calls on hepatologists to screen 🔎 and support the emotional burden in #cirrhosis, with pragmatic tools from recent studies 🛠️…
✅ GI fellowship applications submitted! Super excited for the #Match2026 season, and incredibly thankful for all my mentors, family and friends that have supported me on this journey! Good luck to all the applicants this cycle! #GITwitter #AASLDtweets #WomeninGI
Two common modes - #ERBE Endocut Q & Forced Coag ⭐️ Forced Coag is a high-voltage, pulsed waveform electrosurgical mode designed to rapidly desiccate tissue and coagulate blood vessels. ✅ for cutting through vascular tissue and achieving hemostasis during snare resection.…
Incredible lecture today by #ERBE on #Electrosurgery Critical topic for all of us to understand to be a safe endoscopist especially fellows! ⭐️ Electrosurgery requires a closed circuit ➡️ Generator → Active Electrode → Patient Tissue → Return Path (Pad or Internal) →…
🩺 Capsule Endoscopy in the 21st Century: 🔹 Beyond small bowel 🔹 AI integration 🔹 Magnetic control 🔹 Ongoing challenges By Tsuboi, Oka & Tanaka 📖 oaepublish.com/articles/2574-… #CapsuleEndoscopy #AIinMedicine #Gastroenterology
Ciao Jaume, goodbye cariño mio. You have been such a special and wonderful man and I will love you forever.
Are you spending 7 minutes on your EGDs? Quality Upper Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand: A Joint Position Statement - Yang - Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jg…
👩⚕️🧑⚕️ Starting GI or Foregut fellowship? A solid grasp of esophageal manometry is key to preop planning for antireflux surgery. This review in @foregut_journal discusses: 🔹 Why manometry remains essential before ARS 🔹 How motility data informs surgical choice 🔹 The rationale…
A DREAM COME TRUE! Matched - Advanced Endoscopy at @WVU_GI ✨ So excited and honored to work with @ShyamTMD @shailsingh @SkipKrafftMD🔥 Could not have done this without my amazing mentors #VivekKesar #PatrickOkolo @VKesarMD @PaulYeaton @KMonkemuller @ASGEendoscopy #GITwitter
Winter in Newcastle, Australia 19° C #sharesomethingbeautiful
Syphilitic gastritis -Destructive pattern of chronic active gastritis -Should be considered in cases with this morphologic pattern, negative for lymphoma or H. pylori Dr. Windon #USCAP2024 #GIpath #PathX #pathologists #PathTwitter #pathresidents #NIPPathX #pathfellow