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Acute non-variceal lower gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding is a common medical emergency associated with high hospitalisation rates and mortality of up to 10%. While transcatheter arterial embolisation is an established, minimally invasive alternative to surgery, there is a lack of risk stratification tools to guide patient selection, unlike the established pathways for endoscopy.  This represents a significant clinical gap in optimising care for these critically ill patients.
 
This study aims to analyse the current practice of emergency embolisation for lower tract GI bleeding to better understand predictors of outcomes and improve emergency management. 
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This work is an NIHR adopted study supported by a British Society of Interventional Radiology Research Grant Award and the Guts UK Charity.
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MAGIC-EMBO will be registered as part of the NIHR Associate PI Scheme and will feature in the List of Registered Studies on the NIHR Associate PI Scheme website. We strongly encourage all participating sites to identify trainees who would be interested in enrolling.
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Our Team.

The team comprise of a range of interventional radiology registrars and consultants and is supported by a dedicated PPI group established in collaboration with the Guts UK Charity.

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​Chief Investigator:

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  • Dr Deevia Kotecha – Interventional Radiology Registrar and Honorary Research Fellow, University Hospital Plymouth NHS Trust, UK​

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Co-investigators:

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  • Dr Noemi Cinti, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, UK

  • Dr Vinson Wai-Shun Chan, Radiology Registrar, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

  • Dr Indrajeet Mandal, Interventional Radiology Registrar, Oxford Deanery, UK

  • Dr Ganesh Vigneswaran, Associate Professor of Interventional Radiology and Medical AI and Consultant Vascular Interventional Radiologist, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, UK

  • Dr Raghuram Lakshminarayan, Consultant Vascular Interventional Radiologist, Hull University Teaching Hospitals, UK

  • Dr Paul Jenkins, Consultant Vascular Interventional Radiologist, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK

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