Post written by Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. This case video demonstrates a hybrid endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) with a novel ESD knife, followed by mucosal defect closure using an innovative endoscopic helix tacking system. A 60-year-old man …
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Endoscopic hemostatic spray for uncontrolled bleeding after complicated endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection
Post written by Kayla M. Hartz, DO, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. These are 2 cases in which hemostatic spray was used as a bail-out method for hemostasis when other standard methods failed. These cases show the value in using a hemostatic spray as …
Expert consensus on endoscopic papillectomy using a Delphi process
Post written by Jeska A. Fritzsche, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology & Metabolism, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The focus of our study was to assess the expected wide variety in daily practice of endoscopic papillectomy and to achieve further consensus among international experts by using a …
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EUS-guided ethanol ablation of metastatic functional insulinoma
Post written by Ahmed Altonbary, MD, FRCP, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mansoura Specialized Medical Hospital, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. We describe a case of EUS-guided ethanol ablation (EA) of metastatic functional insulinoma in a young male with recurrent attacks of hypoglycemia requiring intravenous glucose infusion. Management of functioning pancreatic NETs is challenging; …
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A case of improved visibility with gel immersion in the presence of ongoing bleeding during colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection
Post written by Takafumi Maruyama, MD, Takashi Murakami, MD, PhD, Yoichi Akazawa, MD, PhD, Tomoyoshi Shibuya, MD, PhD, and Akihito Nagahara, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Here, we present a case of improved visibility with gel immersion in the presence of ongoing bleeding during colorectal endoscopic …
Remote training in flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy
Post written by Jerome D. Waye, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York. This is the first report of training doctors to adequately perform endoscopy using the internet. We used the internet to teach endoscopy with the trainee in Uganda and the instructor in New York. …
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GIE Reviewer Tips
Carolina Ogawa Matsubayashi, MD, Graduate Student, Weill Cornell Medicine Endoscopy, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, offers advice to new reviewers after participating in GIE’s Reviewer Mentorship Program. What 3 steps do you take as soon as you get invited to review? The first thing I do is check …
My one and only eye (still the one)
Post written by Jacobo Dib Jr., MD, FASGE, from Hospital “Dr. Jesús Yerena” de Lidice, Caracas, Venezuela. I felt the need to share with the rest of the world the conditions in which we perform endoscopy at a public setting in my country, Venezuela. I am sure that colleagues from many other countries will find …
Trends in performance of ERCP among patients with surgically unresectable pancreatic cancer
Post written by Patrick Yachimski, MD, MPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This study was conducted to assess whether there has been a change over time in the use of ERCP among patients with surgically unresectable pancreas cancer, and if so, if there was any …
Guidance for setting easy-to-adopt competence criteria for optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps: a simulation approach
Post written by Britt B.S.L. Houwen, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Implementation of the optical diagnosis strategy for diminutive colorectal polyps by endoscopists and computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems is hampered as the current competence criteria [PIVI] are impractical …
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