Esophageal stent for treatment of choledocholithiasis

Post written by Amy Tyberg, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA This case describes an elderly patient post-cholecystectomy with a markedly dilated bile duct and significant, persistent stone burden despite standard stone extraction techniques who ultimately achieved bile duct clearance with placement of a …

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Risk factors for bleeding after gastric ESD

Post written by Diogo Libânio, MD, from the Gastroenterology Department at the Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal The focus of our study was the identification of significant risk factors for bleeding after gastric endoscopic submucosal dissection (post-procedural bleeding). Additionally, we aimed at accurately estimating the proportion of patients in whom this adverse event develops …

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Editor’s Choice: EMR of lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum

Associate Editor Amit Rastogi, MD, FASGE, highlights this article from the October issue "Endoscopic mucosal resection of large and giant lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum: success, adverse events, and long-term outcomes" by Amir Klein, MD, Dhruv Nayyar, MD, Farzan F. Bahin, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, MPhi, et al.  This study describes the short and long …

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