Austin L. Chiang, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, presents this video case "Combined Mirizzi syndrome with Bouveret syndrome." An 87-year-old man initially presented with hematemesis and was found on CT scan to have a large gallstone in the duodenum with a possible cholecystoduodenal fistula, both of which were also noted on …
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Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, in Rochester, Minnesota, USA discusses "Incremental diagnostic yield of chromoendoscopy and outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease patients with a history of colorectal dysplasia on white-light endoscopy." The focus of our study was to evaluate whether initial and subsequent chromoendoscopy (CE) …
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James T. Kwiatt, MD, from GI Associates, LLC in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA shares this video case "Successful removal of an esophageal band causing complete esophageal obstruction after variceal ligation." A patient was sent to our facility after having adverse events from an EGD with band ligation of esophageal varices. During the procedure the patient was …
Written by Shyam Menon, MD, FRCP, PGDip(Epid), PGDip(Nutr Med), Consultant Gastroenterologist at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, New Cross Hospital, in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Peer-reviewing an original paper is an exciting and rewarding process. Before I decide to accept a paper for review, I ask myself if I am the right person to be reviewing …
GIE Associate Editor Alessandro Repici, MD, recommends this article from the May issue: "Incremental diagnostic yield of chromoendoscopy and outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease patients with a history of colorectal dysplasia on white-light endoscopy" by Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, Gregory J. Hanson, MD, Joel G. Fletcher, MD, et al. The role of careful examination with CE …
Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA discusses this Original Article "EUS-guided drainage of peripancreatic fluid collections and necrosis by using a novel lumen-apposing stent: a large retrospective, multicenter U.S. experience (with videos)." My co-lead author …
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Suryaprakash Bhandari, MD, from the Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, Global Hospitals, in Mumbai, India shares this video case "Fracture of basket within the bile duct during Soehendra rescue lithotripsy, extracted after cholangioscope-guided laser lithotripsy." An 80-year-old female diagnosed with a large common bile duct (CBD) stone (2.2 X 1.5 cm) underwent ERCP and failed …
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Christopher J. DiMaio, MD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York discusses this Original Article, "Transpapillary drainage has no added benefit on treatment outcomes in patients undergoing EUS-guided transmural drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts: a large multicenter study." Over the past 15 years, there has been a marked paradigm …
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Sami Almaskeen, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA shares this VideoGIE case "Over-the-scope stent: a novel technique for stent elongation and deployment." Migration of a fully covered self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) interferes with its effectiveness in closing GI leaks. We report a case of gastric leak that failed …
Lorenzo Fuccio, MD, from the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, in Bologna, Italy discusses this Original Article, "Development of a prediction model of adverse events after stent placement for esophageal cancer." We conducted a retrospective analysis of a large database including 267 patients with dysphagia owing to esophageal cancer and treated …
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