Nonvariceal upper GI hemorrhage after percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction

Post written by Mohammad Bilal, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, and the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Coronary artery disease is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, and acute myocardial …

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Accuracy of artificial intelligence on histology prediction and detection of colorectal polyps

Post written by Wai K. Leung, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. This study reviewed and summarized the latest data on the use of artificial intelligence on histology prediction and detection of colorectal polyps. With the rapid development and increasing application of artificial intelligence (AI) in …

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Automatic detection and classification of protruding lesions in wireless capsule endoscopy images

Post written by Hiroaki Saito, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Sendai Kousei Hospital, Miyagi, Japan. We constructed artificial intelligence to detect protruding lesions of the small bowel in wireless capsule endoscopy images and validated its ability. The results show that the system is able to analyze large amounts of images quickly and accurately. Small …

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Argon plasma coagulation alone vs argon plasma coagulation plus full-thickness endoscopic suturing to treat weight regain after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Post written by Vitor Ottoboni Brunaldi, MD, MSc, from the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Gastroenterology Department, University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Center for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Surgery and Anatomy Department, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil. We aimed to compare APC alone to APC plus endoscopic …

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GIE Reviewer Tips

Jeanin E. van Hooft, MD, PhD, MBA, FASGE, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, LUMC Leiden University, offers advice to new reviewers after participating in GIE’s Reviewer Mentorship Program. What might happen when you start to do reviews is that the names of the authors or the quality of the language will unconsciously impact …

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Diagnostic yield of EUS-guided through-the-needle biopsy in pancreatic cysts

Post written by Antonio Facciorusso, MD, from the Gastroenterology Unit, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy. The low sensitivity, reported to be as high as 54% in differentiating mucinous from non-mucinous pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs), represents a major drawback of standard endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) fine-needle aspiration (FNA). Recently, a through-the-needle microforceps biopsy (TTNB) device that can …

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Diagnostic findings and long-term prognosis in children with anemia undergoing GI endoscopies

Post written by Marleena Repo, MD, from the Tampere Centre for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, the Department of Pediatrics, and the Celiac Disease Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Finland. We investigated systematically for the first time the diagnostic yield of gastrointestinal endoscopies in a large …

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Repeat EUS-FNA of pancreatic masses after nondiagnostic or inconclusive results

Post written by Andrea Lisotti, MD, from the Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital of Imola, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) has a pivotal role in the management of pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal neoplasms with a 5-year survival that has not significantly increased over the last …

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AI using convolutional neural networks for real-time detection of early esophageal neoplasia in Barrett’s esophagus

Post written by Jason B. Samarasena, MD, from the H. H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California, USA. Esophageal adenocarcinoma is actually rising in this country and not going down! The visual detection of early esophageal neoplasia in BE with white-light and …

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