Top reviewers for GIE, VideoGIE, and iGIE will be recognized at the annual Editors’ Reception on May 5 during Digestive Disease Week in San Diego, California, USA. These 60 reviewers are being honored for their outstanding contributions to the journals through completing numerous high-quality reviews. They are thanked for their invaluable service to the peer-review process. The 2025 …
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Post written by James Love, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our study focused on comparing quality performance metrics between screening and surveillance colonoscopies. Although screening colonoscopies have well-established benchmarks, particularly for adenoma detection rate (ADR), surveillance procedures lack such validated metrics. This …
Post written by Roberta Maselli, MD, PhD, from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Pieve Emanuele, Italy. This study evaluates the effectiveness and reliability of Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer 4.0 (Chat-GPT 4.0; OpenAI, San Francisco, Calif, USA) in addressing common patient queries regarding GI endoscopy. By assessing responses in terms of reliability, accuracy, and comprehensibility, the …
Post written by Rajit Aziz Gilhotra, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, and Neal Shahidi, MD, FRCPC, PhD, from the Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, and the Digestive Health Centre, St Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. This case report shares the unusual, rare finding of esophageal squamous papillomatosis (ESP) …
Post written by Ravi Teja Pasam, MBBS, MPH, from Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Dover, New Hampshire, USA. Our study focuses on the unsedated transnasal endoscopy (uTNE) experience at a tertiary care center in India. Completion rate, tolerance, and adverse events of uTNE were studied. Tolerance of uTNE was compared with that of prior peroral EGD (PO-EGD) experience. PO-EGD is …
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Post written by Maham Hayat, MD, and Dennis Yang, MD, from the Center for Interventional Endoscopy, AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida, USA. This study aimed to evaluate the use of UI-EWD (Nexpowder; Medtronic, Minneapolis, Minn, USA), a novel hemostatic powder, for prophylaxis of delayed bleeding (DB) after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in the upper and lower GI tract. DB remains a …
Post written by Mark A. Gromski, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, Suvranu De, ScD, from the College of Engineering, Florida A&M University-Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, and Doga Demirel, PhD, from the School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA. This study focuses on developing and validating the virtual …
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Post written by Yasutoshi Shiratori, MD, MPH, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Division of Gastroenterology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR) using a full-thickness resection device (FTRD; Ovesco Endoscopy AG, Tübingen, Germany) has become a valuable technique for managing nonlifting colonic lesions, such as residual polyps after EMR, with reported high …
Post written by Azizullah Beran, MD, from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to assess the prevalence, characteristics, and burden of endoscopy-related injury (ERI). GI endoscopy is a crucial part of a gastroenterologist’s daily practice. However, it is physically demanding and increases musculoskeletal injuries. As …
Post written by Alexander Miller, MD, from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA, and Joseph C. Anderson, MD, from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, Vermont, USA, and New Hampshire Colonoscopy Registry, Lebanon. We explored the association between patient, endoscopist, and examination factors and cecal …
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