Victoria Gomez, MD and Lady Katherine Mejia Perez, MD from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida present this video case. We describe the case of a 65-year-old man who was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma of the ampulla of Vater. He underwent an EGD for evaluation of long-standing symptoms …
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pCLE and solitary rectal ulcer syndrome
Post written by Yunlu Feng, MD, and Aiming Yang, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, in Beijing, China Our article reported a 34-year-old male Chinese patient who presented with feeling of incomplete defecation and abdominal pain for more than 10 years. Colonoscopy showed a single rectal ulcer. Magnetic resonance imagine showed localized rectal …
Endoscopic management of malignant ileovesicular fistula
Toufic Kachaamy, MD, from the Western Regional Medical Center at Cancer Treatment Center of America, Goodyear, Arizona, USA, presents this video case "Successful endoscopic management of a malignant ileovesicular fistula." A 56-year-old man with history of metastatic colon cancer and prior treatment with subtotal colectomy, ileostomy, and multiple lines of chemotherapy presented with a few …
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Successful removal of esophageal submucosal tumor
Successful removal of an esophageal submucosal tumor by submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection technique Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA In this video, we describe a case of submucosal esophageal tumor successfully removed by a submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) technique. This is a …
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Endoscopic management of a gastrocolonic fistula
Toufic Kachaamy, MD, from the Western Regional Medical Center at Cancer Treatment Center of America, Goodyear, Arizona, USA, present this video case "Endoscopic management of a gastrocolonic fistula." A 55-year-old man presented with dysphagia secondary to esophageal adenocarcinoma. He underwent an esophageal stent placement with significant improvement in his dysphagia. His esophageal stent migrated a month …
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Duodenoscope and linear echoendoscope surveillance cultures
Associate Editor Fauze Maluf-Filho, MD, PhD, FASGE, highlights this Original Article from the September issue: "Surveillance of guideline practices for duodenoscope and linear echoendoscope reprocessing in a large healthcare system" by Jack Brandabur,MD, James E. Leggett, MD, Lian Wang, et al. This study demonstrates that even after adequate reprocessing of duodenoscopes and curvilinear EUS scopes, …
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Gastric endoscopic muscle biopsy
Elizabeth Rajan, MD, FASGE from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA describes this New Methods article "Innovative gastric endoscopic muscle biopsy to identify all cell types, including myenteric neurons and interstitial cells of Cajal in patients with idiopathic gastroparesis: a feasibility study (with video)." The pathophysiology of some gastrointestinal neuromuscular diseases …
Perforation closure using polyglycolic acid sheets and fibrin glue
Yoshiki Sakaguchi, MD, PhD, Yosuke Tsuji, MD, PhD, Kazuhiko Koike, MD, PhD, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, MD, PhD, and Kazuhiko Koike, MD, PhD from the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan discuss their video case "Successful closure of a large perforation during colorectal ESD by application of polyglycolic acid sheets and fibrin glue." The shielding method with polyglycolic …
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Novel SEMS for malignant hilar biliary obstruction
Tadahisa Inoue, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Prefectural Tajimi Hospital, in Gifu, Japan, describes this New Methods article "Feasibility of the placement of a novel 6-mm diameter threaded fully covered self-expandable metal stent for malignant hilar biliary obstructions (with videos)." The focus of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of …
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Confocal laser endomicroscopy in ulcerative colitis
John Gásdal Karstensen, MD, from the Gastro Unit, Division of Endoscopy, Copenhagen University Hospital Herlev, in Copenhagen, Denmark, describes his article "Confocal laser endomicroscopy in ulcerative colitis: a longitudinal study of endomicroscopic changes and response to medical therapy (with videos)." The focus of this study was to correlate endomicroscopic mucosal features with disease activity and …
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