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alvular regions in the gastrointestinal tract provide an important role in the
flow and reflux of solid, liquid and gas materials ingested and generated
in the intestine. For more than five decades, the gold standard for assessing
the function of these junctions was thought to be manometry, but in recent
years this has shown not to be the case. Professor McMahon and his team
have demonstrated that instead of looking at how much squeeze or tightness
involved in valve closer it may be better to look at the amount of opening. During
this research, working with collaborators, he used the principal of impedance
planimetry to invent the functional lumen imaging probe (FLIP) which was
subsequent commercialised as the product EndoFLIP®. During this address
Professor McMahon will review the developing applications in diagnosis and
treatment of gastrointestinal valves for a series of common disease states
in the gastrointestinal tract. The ongoing success and usefulness of this
technology has been verified by the sale of the technology to Medtronic last
year. The talk will set up to provide a basis for understanding the technique and
its developing applications in areas such as reflux disease, achalasia, faecal
incontinence and swallowing disorders related to upper oesophageal sphincter
function.
Biography
Barry P McMahon is Chief of Medical Physics
and Clinical Engineering at Tallaght University
Hospital and Associate Professor of Medical
Physics and Bioengineering in the School of Med-
icine, Trinity College Dublin. He holds an MSc de-
gree in Physical Sciences in Medicine fromTrinity
College Dublin and a PhD degree in Biomedical
Sciences from Aalborg University in Denmark. He
is a Co-Director of the Trinity Academic Gastroen-
terology Group (TAGG) a research centre at Trini-
ty College Dublin. In 2010, he received a research
award in recognition for his research into diges-
tive valve measurement. In 2016, he was award-
ed a distinguished visiting scholarship at the
School of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong
Kong for his work on medical device innovation.
He has published more the 50 research papers.
barry.mcmahon@tcd.ieTHE ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL VALVE
MEASUREMENT IN DIAGNOSIS
AND TREATMENT IN THE
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT -
CHANGING THE PARADIGM
Barry P McMahon
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Barry P McMahon, J Gastroenterol Dig Dis 2018, Volume 3