Tsukasa Ikeura, MD, PhD, from the Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan shares this New Methods article titled "Fluorescence cytology with 5-aminolevulinic acid in EUS-guided FNA as a method for differentiating between malignant and benign lesions (with video)." 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a photosensitizer, is metabolized into protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) in the …
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Female authorship in academic gastroenterology
Michelle T. Long, MD, from the Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA discusses this article "Female authorship in major academic gastroenterology journals: a look over 20 years." This was a retrospective study to determine the representation of female physicians among authors of original research in major US gastroenterology journals. …
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Intraprocedural fluoroscopy with POEM
Vivek Kumbhari, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA shares this New Methods article "Intraprocedural fluoroscopy to determine the extent of the cardiomyotomy during per-oral endoscopic myotomy (with video)." One of the major technical challenges in performing per-oral endoscopic myotomy …
GI Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool
Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, FRCPC, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada discusses this Original Article "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool: reliability and validity evidence." The main purpose of this study was to prospectively examine evidence of the reliability and validity of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy …
EUS-guided drainage using metal stents
Ryosuke Tonozuka, MD, from the Depatment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan discusses this New Methods article "EUS-guided drainage of hepatic abscess and infected biloma using short and long metal stents (with videos)." Refractory hepatic abscess (HA) and infected biloma (IBL), in which inflammation does not improve only by the …
Editor’s Choice- When trainees reach competency in performing ERCP
Associate Editor, Douglas Adler, MD, highlights this article from the June issue of GIE--"When trainees reach competency in performing ERCP: a systematic review" by Drs Neal Shahidi, George Ou, Jennifer Telford, and Robert Enns. The article critically assesses papers that have looked at ERCP training and outcomes and shows that the more rigorously you define …
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Editor’s Choice- Endoscopy in IBD
GIE Associate Editor Alessandro Repici, MD, recommends this article from the May issue "The role of endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease" from the ASGE Standards of Practice committee, Amandeep K. Shergill, Jenifer R. Lightdale, David H. Bruining, et al. This is a valuable study because it is an excellent update on how endoscopy should be used …
Learning curve for EUS in gastric cancer T staging
Chan Hyuk Park, MD and Jun Chul Park, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, in Seoul, Republic of Korea discuss this Original Article "Learning curve for EUS in gastric cancer T staging by using cumulative sum analysis." In our study, we …
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Band and slough technique for nonampullary duodenal adenomas
Naresh T. Gunaratnam, MD and Eugene Zolotarevsky, MD from the Department of Gastroenterology, Huron Gastroenterology in Ypsilanti and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA discusses this Original Article "Efficacy and safety of the band and slough technique for endoscopic therapy of nonampullary duodenal adenomas: a case series." Standard endoscopic resection of duodenal adenomas …
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Comparing outcomes of 2 nonanatomic EUS-guided BD routes after failed ERCP
Everson L.A. Artifon, MD, FASGE from the Department of Surgery at the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil discusses his Original Article "Hepaticogastrostomy or choledochoduodenostomy for distal malignant biliary obstruction after failed ERCP: Is there any difference?" The study demonstrated that both hepaticogastrostomy (HG) and choledochoduodenostomy (CDT) are feasible to create an EUS-guided fistula …
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