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EUS-guided ethanol ablation of metastatic functional insulinoma

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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

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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 …

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Remote training in flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy

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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

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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 …

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Trends in performance of ERCP among patients with surgically unresectable pancreatic cancer

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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 …

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Guidance for setting easy-to-adopt competence criteria for optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps: a simulation approach

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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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Transpapillary gallbladder stent placement for long-term therapy of acute cholecystitis

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Post written by Andrew C. Storm, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Acute cholecystitis (AC) is a common disease, and while gallbladder removal surgery is one of the most commonly performed operations, some patients are not candidates for surgery. Left untreated, patients with AC can develop gangrene and gallbladder perforation, …

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Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of gastric precancerous conditions by image-enhanced endoscopy

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Post written by Honggang Yu, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, the Key Laboratory of Hubei Province for Digestive System Disease, and the Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease Minimally Invasive Incision, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. In this study, we conducted a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system to detect …

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Cholangioscopy in primary sclerosing cholangitis

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Post written by Sooraj Tejaswi, MD, MSPH, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California. This is a case series of 5 patients, demonstrating several unique and varied benign features of PSC. We describe a novel phenotypic classification of benign features, whereby we categorize findings into …

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