Category: GIE

Computer-aided diagnosis for identifying and delineating early gastric cancers

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Post written by Takashi Kanesaka, MD, Noriya Uedo, MD, and Tsung-Chun Lee, MD, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan, and the Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Gastric cancer remains the third leading cause of cancer-related death globally. …

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The role of colorectal ESD in patients with ulcerative colitis

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Post written by Satoshi Kinoshita, MD, Toshio Uraoka, MD, PhD, and Toshihiro Nishizawa, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, National Hospital Organization, Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan, and the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan. Patients with ulcerative colitis have an increased risk of colorectal dysplasia. Endoscopic …

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Long-term outcomes after noncurative endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer

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Post written by Jun Chul Park, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. Although ESD is performed with curative intent, curative resection of ESD is not always possible. The standard management after noncurative resection (NCR) is additional gastrectomy with lymph node (LN) …

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Increase in female faculty in ASGE–sponsored programming

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Post written by Audrey H. Calderwood, MD, MS, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Our study focuses on female representation among faculty of ASGE-sponsored courses. We evaluated different types of programs (eg, hands-on, first-year fellow, quality), program size by number of attendees, faculty role (eg, director, …

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Use of N-acetylcysteine plus simethicone to improve mucosal visibility

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Post written by Jose Ignacio Vargas, MD, from the Gastroenterology Department and School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the Endoscopy Unit, Hospital Clínico Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. The focus of our study was to assess the effectiveness of the ingestion of different cleaning solutions before upper gastrointestinal in the evaluation …

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Metallic coil and N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate for closure of pancreatic duct leak

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Post written by Ara B. Sahakian, MD, from the Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. Pancreatic fistulae are a common complication of pancreatic surgery, which often respond to conservative management or transpapillary pancreatic duct stenting. However, a small proportion of these leaks do …

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Editor’s Choice: Risk factors for gastric adenocarcinoma

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Associate Editor, Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, highlights this article from the April issue “Association of gastric intestinal metaplasia and East Asian ethnicity with the risk of gastric adenocarcinoma in a U.S. population” by Alyssa Y. Choi, MD, et al.  In the United States, gastric adenocarcinoma is the forgotten stepchild, often believed to be a disease of …

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Comparison of uncovered with covered SEMSs

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Post written by Sunguk Jang, MD, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. This article compares the efficacy and safety of covered versus uncovered metallic biliary stents in patients with malignant biliary strictures. There remains a controversy over the increased risk of cholecystitis after the placement of covered metallic stents for malignant …

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Width and depth of resection for small colorectal polyps

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Post written by Sho Suzuki, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. We conducted this prospective, randomized, exploratory study to investigate the resection width and depth achieved by cold snare polypectomy (CSP) for small colorectal polyps compared to those achieved by hot snare …

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Hemostatic power in malignant GI bleeding

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Post written by Rapat Pittayanon, MD, MSc, and Alan Barkun, MD, MSc, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of the Thai Red Cross, Bangkok, Thailand, and the Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada. This study was focusing on prognostic …

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