Liver & Intestinal Transplant Dietitian @ Austin Health, Melbourne. PhD @ UniMelb.
Melbourne
Joined September 2012
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Great podcast featuring @mariej_sinclair discussing everything you need to know about continuous terlipressin infusion 👇
Born and bred at the Victorian Liver Transplant Unit 🤜
Continuous terlipressin infusions in the home.
@Austin_Health
@mariej_sinclair
@bc_diet
@GutFailure open.spotify.com/episode/2PH…
📢Save the date!
🇦🇺The Australian chapter of IIRTA will be holding a full-day symposium on Intestinal Failure & Transplant on Sat Feb 28 2026.
🌟We have a great line-up of multidisciplinary speakers planned
Stay tuned for further details!
@GutFailure @iirta_tts @austin_HRG
Brooke Chapman retweeted
Review Article
From past to present to future: Terlipressin and hepatorenal syndrome-acute kidney injury
Allegretti et al.
#LiverX
tinyurl.com/y63vw9rf
A great week in Amsterdam for #EASL2025 and happy to present this work from our @AustinHealth team on importance of nutrition in #livertransplant
So great to welcome you to Austin Health @ebtapper 🇦🇺🦘
Loved your presentations and practical pearls on liver-related PRO’s. Pragmatic research is key 🔑 #livertwitter
Excited to be learning all about patient reported outcomes from the master @ebtapper at the Austin Advanced Liver Symposium 2025. 🇦🇺
Key points:
🗣️ ask your pts about their symptoms!
🎯 focus on what matters to them
✅ PROMIS 29+2 is preferred QOL tool
📈 when in doubt use VAS
Brooke Chapman retweeted
What a year it was!
Pleased to share the 2024 @Austin_Health Liver and Intestinal Transplant Medicine Research Report.
@mariej_sinclair @bc_diet
Brooke Chapman retweeted
10 days until abstract submissions close. Our Congress convenors tell us they have had a steady stream of submissions which is great! Don’t miss out - submit your work today. Please share widely. @iirta_tts #ciirta2025 @MiOltean
Https://ciirta2025.org
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In 2024, this group published 3 randomized trials for burning questions in #cirrhosis
1. BCAA
2. Enteral feeding
3. Continuous terlipressin
Leaders: @bc_diet @GutFailure @mariej_sinclair and others @Austin_Health
Stunning
Thanks @ebtapper
A challenging but important study given so many patients pre-Tx can’t eat (anywhere near) enough!
Also demonstrated continued gains in HGS 💪 and anthropometry with increasing duration of NG feeds until ~4mth (by which time most pt were transplanted)
WOW
@bc_diet did it!
An RCT of tube feeds in people waiting for liver transplant
1️⃣everyone missing nutritional goals at baseline
2️⃣massive ⬆️in calories and protein
3️⃣⬆️strength and immune function
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3845…
Not powered for clinical outcomes
#livertwitter
Brooke Chapman retweeted
Read open access "Branched-chain amino acid supplementation does not improve measures of sarcopenia in cirrhosis: results of a randomised controlled trial" at bit.ly/3uNXHZn
#livertwitter #cirrhosis #clinicaltrial
ALT Mean adjusted difference presented in graphical form for the primary endpoint of A Handgrip strength and B upper limb lean mass (measured on dual energy x-ray absorptiometry). BCAA; branched chain amino acids, HGS; handgrip strength, DEXA; dual energy x-ray absorptiometry.
Plenty of clinical pearls for the audience on hepatorenal syndrome management from @GutFailure (Terli 👑) #AdvancedLiverDiseaseSymposium2024 @Austin_Health
Fantastic presentation by A/Prof @mariej_sinclair on ascites management, TIPS and albumin in portal hypertension 👇#AdvancedLiverDiseaseSymposium2024
Malnutrition in cirrhosis.
🔑 messages:
- high kcal, high protein diet 🍳(req’s often double what the patient currently eating)
- small, frequent meals/snacks (at least 6️⃣ per day)
- timed feeding (supper!) 🕘
- ONS drinks 🥤& fortify meals 🥑
- consider NGF
#LiverTwitter
Full house as we kick off the @Austin_Health Advanced Liver Disease Symposium. Great energy in the room! Looking forward to a great day learning more about the liver @GutFailure @mariej_sinclair
Looking forward to presenting to a full house at our @Austin_Health inaugural Advanced Liver Disease symposium next weekend on the important topic of #nutrition in cirrhosis 👇
Sold out!!
The inaugural @Austin_Health Advanced Liver Disease Symposium has reached capacity.
Looking forward to discussing all things liver next weekend:
•Nutrition in cirrhosis
•Acute Liver Failure
•ACLF
•Ascites, TIPS, HRS
•HCC
•Liver Transplantation
•Varices
Late breaking abstract presented by @mariej_sinclair from our @Austin_Health liver team on continuous terlipressin infusion - impressive data demonstrating safety & efficacy in pt with portal hypertensive complications. Papers to follow soon! #TLM23 @GutFailure
Continuous home terlipresssin ⬆️hand grip strength ⬇️ ascites. Melbourne group have treated 120 patients with CTI whilst on Tx list. Now a non blinded RCT, patients own control. Dosing below - daily nurse visits to change pump #TLM23 #latebreakers
#sarcopenia and #malnutrition in cirrhosis - our Liver Transplant team @Austin_Health leading the way 💪 #AGW2023 @mariej_sinclair @GutFailure
Critical work led by Dr Darren Wong detailing the under-resourcing of Australian #intestinalfailure teams at #AGW2023 #AustIRTAchapter @irta_tts @GutFailure @AuSPENfeed @EmOsland @Austin_Health
