Post written by Anthony Yuen Bun Teoh, FRCSEd, from the Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China. Acupuncture has been used as part of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years. However, the role of electroacupuncture (EA) in reducing sedative and analgesic requirements …
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Post written by Stephanie Kinnan and Deborah Bowman, MFA, ELS. Predatory publishing is a growing concern in the current “publish or perish” culture of scholarly research. “An increasingly persistent problem, encouraged by the growing popularity of open access publishing, predatory or illegitimate publications result in the waste of resources and funds and the loss of …
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Associate Editor, Dr. Lyndon Hernandez, MD, MPH, highlights this article from the January issue “Prior gastroscopy and mortality in patients with gastric cancer: a matched retrospective cohort study” by Wai K. Leung, MD, et al. This nationwide observational study (n=20,066) showed a reduction in cancer-related mortality among patients who underwent gastroscopy within 5 years before …
Continue reading Editor’s Choice: Prior gastroscopy and mortality in patients with gastric cancer
Post written by Ryan Law, DO, from the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. We present a 56-year-old woman with history of lupus and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), complicated by a persistent anastomotic ulcer ultimately requiring partial gastrectomy and esophagojejunostomy who was referred for endoscopic management of an esophagojejunal (EJ) …
Continue reading Management of an esophagojejunal anastomotic stricture using a LAMS
Post written by Maoyin Pang, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. A 56-year-old male with a history of laryngeal malignancy status post laryngectomy and permanent tracheostomy and tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis placed 12 years ago was referred to our clinic for recurrent aspiration of both liquid and solid …
Continue reading A hybrid endoscopic technique to close tracheoesophageal fistula
Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Gastric mucosal devitalization (GMD) rats had a lower body weight and reduced intrabdominal adiposity compared with sham surgery rats. The morphologic findings at 8 weeks postoperative were compared with those …
Post written by Muhammad Nadeem Yousaf, MD, and Harry R. Aslanian, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. In our video case series, we present endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging of common benign and malignant liver lesions. The cases presented include: liver cyst …
Post written by Giovanni D. De Palma, MD, from Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University Federico II of Naples, School of Medicine, Naples, Italy. Our paper presents a single-center, randomized, back-to-back trial which was designed to investigate the contribution of the EndoCuff device to the improvement of the adenoma eetection rate in the course …
Continue reading Cap cuff–assisted colonoscopy vs standard colonoscopy for adenoma detection
Post written by Malay Sharma, MD, DM, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Saket, Uttar Pradesh, India. A 4-year-old Indian boy presented with recurrent biliary colic and jaundice for 2 weeks. Laboratory investigations revealed obstructive jaundice. Abdominal ultrasonography (USG) revealed a normal gallbladder, intrahepatic biliary radicles dilation, and a dilated common bile …
Post written by Navin L. Kumar, MD and John R. Saltzman, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The focus of our study was to develop and validate a concise assessment tool to evaluate real-time fellow performance in colonoscopy via a web-based application …
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