Post written by Hugo Uchima, MD, from the Endoscopy Unit, Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, and the Endoscopic Unit, Teknon Medical Center, Barcelona, Spain. In this video, we describe the technical and anatomic endoscopic references to preserve the innermost gastric oblique fibers (sling fibers) during posterior POEM, based on the location …
Month: November 2020
Successful endoscopic submucosal dissection for a huge lipoma in the terminal ileum
Post written by Takashi Muramoto, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. The video describes successful endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for a huge lipoma in the terminal ileum. A 74-year-old man underwent a computed tomography because of intermittent lower-abdominal pain, and the images revealed a tumor in the …
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Gastric peroral endoscopic myotomy for refractory gastroparesis
Post written by Shaimaa Elkholy, MD, from the Gastroenterology Division, Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. We present here a case of a middle-aged male patient with history of refractory gastroparesis post-surgical fundoplication. Despite using extensive medical treatment of antiemetics and prokinetics, his condition was deteriorating. We performed G-POEM, which is …
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