Post written by GIE Senior Associate Editor David L. Diehl, MD, FACP, MASGE, AGAF, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA. This month’s GIE includes a Top Tips that I wrote on the use of cryoballoon ablation (CbA) in the GI tract. In this article, I summarize current …
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Post written by Carlos Robles-Medranda, MD, FASGE, AGAF, from the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Enfermedades Digestivas and Endoscopy Net, Guayaquil, Ecuador. This video presents our early clinical experience with the EndoSound Vision System (Portland, Ore, USA), a compact, portable, disposable EUS probe that clips onto a flexible upper GI endoscope while preserving the working channel. We demonstrate device …
Post written by Edoardo Vincenzo Savarino, MD, PhD, from the Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy, Mohammad Al Hayek, MD, from the Faculty of Medicine, Damascus University, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, and Brigida Barberio, MD, PhD, from the Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Surgery, Oncology and Gastroenterology, University of Padova. Upper GI cancers remain a …
Post written by Harsimran Kalsi, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Central Florida/HCA Florida North Florida Hospital, Gainesville, Florida, Saurabh Chandan, MD, from Advanced Endoscopy, Houston Methodist West Hospital, Houston, Texas, and Dennis Yang, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Advent Health, Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary focus of our study was to evaluate whether pyloric impedance …
Post written by Mina Alkomos, MD, DABOM, from the Gastroenterology Department, Mount Sinai South Nassau, Oceanside, New York, and Walid Baddoura, MD, from the Gastroenterology Department, St Joseph’s University Medical Center, Paterson, New Jersey, USA. This video demonstrates a simple modification to the delivery system used during application of hemostatic powder to reduce catheter clogging. Catheter occlusion remains …
Post written by Shaimaa Elkholy, MD, Karim Essam, MD, and Mohamed El Sherbiny, MD, from the Gastroenterology Division, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. Our article highlights the role of submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) in managing 2 highly challenging esophageal subepithelial lesions. Although STER has become an established minimally invasive technique for selected lesions, its application in …
Post written by Abdulrahman Qatomah, MBBS, from Gastroenterology, Endoscopy and Hepatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We present a multitraction point (MTP) technique designed to facilitate endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for difficult-to-access colorectal lesions. This approach is particularly useful for large lesions with suboptimal submucosal exposure, where perpendicular rather than tangential dissection …
Post written by GIE Editor-in-Chief Douglas G. Adler, MD, FASGE, FACG, AGAF. At GIE, we are extremely proud to announce that our Impact Factor has risen to 8.0. This represents a significant improvement in our Impact Factor and our second consecutive increase. It takes a focused and concerted effort to raise the Impact Factor of …
Post written by Carlos E. Bertran-Rodriguez, MD, and Dennis Yang, MD, from the Center for Interventional Endoscopy, AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando, Florida, USA. Our video demonstrates use of a novel robotic—assisted traction device (TraCloser; EndoRobotics, Seoul, South Korea) during colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of a rectal 60-mm laterally spreading granular tumor. The robotic gripper arm allowed real-time adjustments for dynamic …
Post written by Stefano Kayali, MD, from from the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, and the Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, University Hospital of Parma, and Stefano Fantasia, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. Our study investigates the impact of bowel preparation quality, specifically comparing excellent (Boston Bowel Preparation Scale …
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