About Professor Annette Fritscher-Ravens

Professor Annette Fritscher-Ravens is a Professor of Gastroenterology and Consultant Gastroenterologist at New Victoria Hospital. She specialises in Advanced GI Endoscopy and Paediatric Endoscopy. In recent years she has successfully developed a research scheme in IBS and is now seeing many IBS patients.

Key Published Papers:

• Fritscher-Ravens A. EUS-guided NOTES interventions. Gastrointest Endosc Clin N  Am. 2008;18:297-314
• Fritscher-Ravens A, Fox S, Swain P, Milla P, Long G. CathCam guide-wire directed colonoscopy – First pilot study of patients with a previous incomplete colonoscopy. Endoscopy 2006, 38:209-13
• Fritscher-Ravens A, Broering DC, Knoefel WT,  Rogiers X,  Swain CP, Thonke F, Bobrowski C, Topalidis T, Soehendra N. EUS guided fine needle aspiration of suspected hilar cholangiocarcinoma in potentially operable patients with negative brush cytolology. Am J Gastroenterol  2004; 99:45-51.
• Fritscher-Ravens A, Davidson BL,  Hauber HP, Bohuslavizki KH, Lund C,  Bobrowski C, Lund C, Knoefel WT, Soehendra N, Brandt L, Pepe M, Pforte A. Comparison of  endoscopic ultrasound, positron emission tomography, and computerized tomography  for determining operability of lung cancer. Am J Resp Crit Care Med. 2003; 168:1293-7
• Mylonaki M, Fritscher-Ravens A, Swain CP. Wireless capsule endoscopy: A comparison with push enteroscopy in patients with gastroscopy and colonoscopy negative  gastrointestinal bleeding. Gut 2003; 52:1122-1126

Professional memberships

Areas of Interest:

Gastroenterology:

•  Irritable Bowel Syndrome & Food Intolerance
•  Coeliac disease
•  Heartburn, Acid Reflux & Indigestion
•  Abdominal Pain
•  Constipation, Diarrhoea and Changes in Bowel Habit
•  Travellers Diarrhoea
•  Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative Colitis / Crohn’s Disease
•  Weight Loss & Nutrition
•  Gastrointestinal Bleeding & positive qFIT Test
•  Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Test (SIBO)
•  Lactose and Fructose Intolerance Tests
•  Anaemia
•  Digestive Tract Cancer Screening

Upper and Lower Diagnostic & Therapeutic Endoscopy;

•  Gastroscopy
•  Colonoscopy
•  Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
•  Complex polyp removal by endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR)
•  Stricture dilatation & Stent insertion
•  Gastrointestinal bleeding
•  Feeding tubes   (PEG/PEJ)
•  Capsule Endoscopy