Post written by Rafael Romero-Castro, MD, PhD, from the Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain. We report EUS-FNA in 2 patients with right atrial masses, 1 of them requiring 3 passes to obtain diagnostic cytologic material. I think these 2 cases deserve to be known by the community of endosonographers because of 2 main reasons. …
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Performance of a novel esophageal stent with an antireflux valve
Post written by Kulwinder S. Dua, MD, FASGE, FACP, FRCP, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a new self-expanding metal esophageal stent (SEMS) with an anti-reflux valve in relieving dysphagia symptoms …
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Management of afferent limb obstruction by EUS-guided jejunojejunostomy and placement of LAMS
Post written by Hassan Ghoz, MD, and Victoria Gómez, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Section of Advanced Endoscopy, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. We describe a case of a patient presenting with malignant afferent loop obstruction (ALO) which we managed using EUS-guided creation of a jejunojejunostomy with a lumen-apposing metal stent (LAMS). …
Quality assurance of computer-aided detection and diagnosis in colonoscopy
Post written by Daniela Guerrero Vinsard, MD, and Yuichi Mori, MD, PhD, from the Showa University International Center for Endoscopy and Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, and the Division of Internal Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in gastrointestinal endoscopy entails the construction of …
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Endoscopic suturing for closure of ESD defects
Post written by Samuel Han, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA. In this Tools and Techniques video, we describe a formalized technique to close defects created by ESD using endoscopic suturing. Essentially, we suggest proceeding from the site most distal to the scope insertion …
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GIE Reviewer Tips
Timo Rath, MD, from the Ludwig Demling Endoscopy Center of Excellence, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany offers advice to new reviewers after participating in GIE's Reviewer Mentorship Program. Reviewing is an important part of my clinical and scientific endoscopic activities that I would not want to miss. Reviewing cutting-edge papers definitely improves my daily endoscopy …
GIE Reviewer Tips
Georgios Mavrogenis, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens, Greece, offers advice to new reviewers after participating in GIE's Reviewer Mentorship Program. Giving feedback to a mentee can be difficult. How do you inspire young reviewers to do a good job? I encourage them to detect the weaknesses and the strong points of …
The descending gastric fundus in endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty
Post written by Theodore W. James, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We demonstrated that not only does the gastric body shorten during endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty, but the gastric fundus descends as well. This often brings the fundus below the GE junction and increases the …
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Usefulness and safety of colorectal precutting EMR and hybrid ESD for sessile serrated polyps
Post written by Yuzuru Tamaru, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, National Hospital Organization, Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, Kure, Japan. In this report, we present 2 cases of precutting endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR)/hybrid endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) with a circumferential incision and partial dissection followed by snare resection via SOUTEN. We also …
Outcomes of ER and metachronous cancer after ER for adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction
Post written by Seiichiro Abe, MD, PhD, from the Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Endoscopic resection (ER) is a minimally invasive treatment option for superficial adenocarcinoma (EA). We recently demonstrated that lymphovascular involvement, a poorly differentiated histology, and lesion size were independent risk factors for metastasis in patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma. Patients …