Post written by Rohit Sinha, MBBS, MRCP, PgDip, from the Royal Infirmary and The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. We wanted to evaluate the efficacy of Hemospray in conjunction with established hemostatic endo-therapy in a high-risk nonvariceal upper GI bleeding setting. There was no evidence about the efficacy and outcome of combination therapy (Hemospray …
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Post written by Ferga C. Gleeson, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. In patients with either primary or metastatic sporadic GI stromal tumors, we sought to determine the frequency of KIT and PDGFRA pathogenic alterations within paired endoscopic ultrasound cytology smears and surgical pathology specimens, Imatinib sensitivity, and the …
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Post written by Farzan Bahin, MBBS (Hons), MPhil, FRACP, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia. This study evaluates the concept of reducing the rate of recurrence by extending the EMR to include a large normal mucosal margin beyond the visible extent of the lesion. Residual or recurrent adenoma (RRA) is …
Continue reading Extended EMR does not reduce recurrence compared with standard EMR
Dr. Mohit Girotra, MD, FACP, and Dr. Benjamin Tharian, MD, MRCP, FRACP, from the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas present this video case. A 73-year-old woman with failed prior ERCP for choledocholithiasis underwent successful endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with extraction of a …
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Post written by Christoph Frank Dietrich, MD, PhD, from the Medical Department at Caritas Krankenhaus, Bad Mergentheim, Germany With the ever growing number of cross sectional imaging, the incidental detection of small solid pancreatic tumors also increases. Until now, the general rule for the management of such pancreatic tumors has been radical surgery if considered …
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Lianyong Li, MD, PhD and Qiang Cai, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, PLA 306th Hospital, Beijing, China and the Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, respectively, present this video case. A 62-year-old male with Zenker’s diverticulum (ZD) underwent endoscopic diverticulectomy for dysphagia and weight …
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Editor-in-Chief Mike Wallace, MD, MPH, highlights this article from the December issue “The use of hemostatic spray as an adjunct to conventional hemostatic measures in high-risk nonvariceal upper GI bleeding (with video)” by Ryota Niikura, MD, PhD, Hideo Yasunaga, MD, PhD, Atsuo Yamada, MD, PhD, Hiroki Matsui, PhD, Kiyohide Fushimi, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Hirata, MD, …
Post written by Ryota Niikura , MD, PhD from the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Our study focused on a large sample size of various therapeutic colonoscopies and data on the use of drugs that might increase the risk of bleeding, such as anticoagulants and antithrombotics, NSAIDs, and steroids. …
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Claudio Zulli, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, NOCSAE Hospital, AUSL, Modena presents this video case. A 58-year-old man was referred to the Transplant Unit for an “urgent” orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) due to decompensated alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Abdominal ultrasound (US) and a CT-scan revealed a mild left intra-hepatic biliary duct dilation and an …
Alan H. Tieu, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland presents this video case. Therapy for symptomatic epiphrenic diverticulum typically involves surgical myomectomy or diverticulectomy with high morbidity. We demonstrate a purely endoscopic technique for the management of a large symptomatic epiphrenic …
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