IMG-20230423-WA0013

Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Highlights of the talk:

1) Children with chronic diarrhea had varied presentations. Common causes are milk protein allergy, celiac diseases, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, immunodeficiencies, eosinophilic GI disorders, persistent diarrhea, IBS.

2) Children with chronic diarrhea need a unique and algorithmic approach to diagnose the disease etiology. Treatment should focus on comprehensive care.

3) In children suffering chronic liver disease, it is important to identify treatable liver diseases like Wilson’s disease, autoimmune liver disease and viral hepatitis, tyrosinemia, glycogen storage disorder, galactosemia.

4) For end stage liver disease in infants and children, liver transplantation is treatment of choice and has reasonably good long-term outcome and quality of life.

5) Biliary atresia, progressive familial intra hepatic cholestasis, hepatoblastoma and Wilson’s disease are the commonest causes of liver diseases requiring liver transplantation.

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Dr. Vibhor Borkar

Dr. Vibhor Borkar is a Paediatrician and Paediatric Gastroenterologist and has an experience of 16 years in these fields. He completed his MBBS from KEM Hospital, Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik in 2006, MD - Paediatrics from PGIMER, Chandigarh, India in 2009, and DM - Pediatric Gastroenterology from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences in 2014.

Areas of Interest:

Liver Diseases
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Liver Transplant
Paediatric and Neonatal GI Endoscopies
Pancreatic Disorders