Editor’s Choice: Identification of patients with malignant biliary strictures using a cholangioscopy-based deep learning artificial intelligence (with video)

GIE Senior Associate Editor David L. Diehl, MD, highlights this article from the February issue: “Identification of patients with malignant biliary strictures using a cholangioscopy-based deep learning artificial intelligence (with video)” by Neil B. Marya, MD, et al. The assessment of indefinite biliary strictures is difficult because results of intraductal biopsy and cytologic brushing can be inconclusive. It …

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GIE now accepting submissions for new article type

Post written by Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, GIE Editor-in-Chief, from the Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Centura Health, Denver, Colorado, USA. We at Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (GIE) are excited to announce a new section in the journal and a new manuscript classification: Focused Communications. These articles will highlight studies that reach a highly specific conclusion and …

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Expanding the role of pneumatic dilation for nonachalasia patients: a comparative study

Post written by Nikita Desai, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The focus of our study was to evaluate the treatment efficacy of pneumatic dilation (PD) for the disorders of esophagogastric junction outflow obstruction (EGJOO) and postfundoplication esophagogastric junction obstruction (PF-EGJO) and to assess attitudes about training in …

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Comparison of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty versus surgical sleeve gastrectomy: a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program database analysis

Post written by Anuragh R. Gudur, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Our study used a large, multicentered, bariatric-specific data registry to analyze short-term outcomes after endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) in comparison with surgical sleeve gastrectomy (SG). We also sought to examine which factors were associated with …

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Timing of colonoscopy in acute lower GI bleeding: a multicenter retrospective cohort study

Post written by Yasutoshi Shiratori, MD, MPH, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, St. Luke’s International University, and Naoki Ishii, MD, MPH, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Tokyo Shinagawa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Acute lower GI bleeding (ALGIB) is a primary cause of hospital admissions from the emergency department and is associated with a 3.4% mortality. …

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Covered versus uncovered double bare self-expandable metal stent for palliation of unresectable extrahepatic malignant biliary obstruction: a randomized controlled multicenter trial

Post written by Jae Hee Cho, MD, PhD, and Seungmin Bang, MD, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. A double bare metal stent (DBS) is a newly developed metal stent that is woven into a cross and hook structure with braided nitinol, and it has a …

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Letter from the new GIE Editor-in-Chief

Post written by Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, Director, Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CATE), PEAK Gastroenterology, Porter Adventist Hospital, Denver, Colorado, USA. It is my great pleasure to write to you as the new Editor-in-Chief of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. I enter into this new role with a sense of incredible excitement and optimism for the future, …

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Implementation of optical diagnosis with a “resect and discard” strategy in clinical practice: DISCARD3 study

Post written by Ahmir Ahmad, MRCP, from the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy, St Mark’s Hospital, Harrow, London, UK. Real-time optical diagnosis (OD) is now possible because of image-enhancing technologies offering the potential for huge cost and time savings associated with histopathology.  Despite several GI societies endorsing a “resect and discard” strategy for low-risk diminutive polyps, there …

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EUS-guided gastroenterostomy versus duodenal self-expandable metal stent for malignant gastric outlet obstruction: results from a nationwide multicenter retrospective study (with video)

Post written by Rubén Sánchez-Aldehuelo, MD, from the Unidad de Endoscopia, Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad de Alcalá, and Enrique Vázquez-Sequeiros, MD, PhD, from the Unidad de Endoscopia, Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, …

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Reflections on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: 8 years of editorship

Post written by Michael B. Wallace, MD, MPH, GIE Editor-in-Chief and Fred C. Andersen Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology: Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. It has been nearly 8 years since our team assumed responsibility for the editorship of GIE, and it is now our turn to pass the torch …

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