Publications by authors named "Antony Barney Hawthorne"
Objective: Symptoms and clinical course during inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) vary among individuals. Personalised care is therefore essential to effective management, delivered by a strong patient-centred multidisciplinary team, working within a well-designed service. This study aimed to fully rewrite the UK Standards for the healthcare of adults and children with IBD, and to develop an IBD Service Benchmarking Tool to support current and future personalised care models.
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- - Venous or cavernous malformations in the colon or rectum are rare but can cause significant lower gastrointestinal bleeding, mostly affecting children and young adults, particularly in the rectosigmoid area.
- - These malformations are often misdiagnosed; patients may experience an average delay of 19 years before receiving the correct diagnosis, as seen in a case of a 65-year-old man initially treated for colitis and angiodysplasia.
- - The article discusses updated classifications of these malformations, key clinical signs for accurate diagnosis, treatment options, and management challenges that healthcare providers may encounter.
Differentiation between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and functional gut disorders, and the determination of mucosal disease activity in established cases of IBD remain the cornerstones of disease diagnosis and management. Non-invasive, accurate biomarkers of gut inflammation are needed due to the variability of symptoms, the inaccuracies of currently available blood markers and the cost and invasive nature of endoscopy. Numerous biomarkers have been used and/or considered with some in current use.
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