Post written by Pradev Inavolu, MD, DM, Wladyslaw Januszewicz, MD, PhD, and Sundeep Lakhtakia, MD, DM, from AIG Hospitals and Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. We encountered a case of maldeployment of a lumen-apposing mental stent (LAMS) into the pseudocyst cavity with loss of access. Typically, such an adverse event necessitates a surgical intervention …
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Saline-immersion endoscopic submucosal dissection using pocket-creation method
Post written by Siddharth B. Javia, MD, from Confluence Health, Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, Wenatchee, Washington, USA. This video is about removing a large cecal polyp using an endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique. We facilitate this ESD in the cecum by using a combination of pocket-creation method and saline-immersion technique. ESD is a challenging technique to …
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EUS-guided enteroenterostomy to facilitate peroral altered anatomy ERCP
Post written by Romik P. Srivastava, MD, from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. In our video series, we present 4 cases of patients with non—gastric bypass altered anatomy who required complex ERCP. To facilitate peroral ERCP using a therapeutic gastroscope or duodenoscope, we created an EUS-guided enteroenterostomy in order to shorten …
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Use of inducible and limiting fluorescence in laparoscopic endoscopic cooperative surgery
Post written by Masaya Uesato, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Kurata, MD, PhD, Yasunori Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Shunsuke Kainuma, MD, Takuya Hirosuna, MD, Ryota Otsuka, MD, PhD, Koichi Hayano, MD, PhD, and Hisahiro Matsubara, MD, PhD, from the Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan. We show you a case with a 6-mm-diameter …
Modified gastric-peroral endoscopic myotomy with sleeve release in a case of severe gastric sleeve stenosis
Post written by Syed Hamaad Rahman, DO, from Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA. We describe the case of a 26-year-old woman who had undergone laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and presented with severe intolerance of oral intake, reflux, and weight loss. She was found to have stenosis of the gastric sleeve with presence of a …
Gastrogastric intussusception and acute pancreatitis caused by a large pyloric gland adenoma treated with endoscopic submucosal dissection
Post written by Robert Bechara, MD, from Queen's University, Kingston Health Sciences Center, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This is a case of a 75-year-old woman with gastrogastric intussusception and acute pancreatitis caused by a 6-cm dysplastic pyloric gland adenoma, which we treated using endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). The decision to showcase this video was driven by …
Two clues make a proof: EUS-directed transgastric ERCP in twice-surgically altered anatomy—Roux-en-Y gastric bypass conversion of a sleeve gastrectomy
Post written by Giuseppe Vanella, MD, from the Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy and Endosonography Division, IRCCS San Raffaele Institute, Milan, Italy. In the realm of endoscopy, the advent of lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMSs) has paved the way for innovative solutions to challenges once considered insurmountable. One such breakthrough is the technique known as EUS-directed transgastric ERCP (EDGE), which …
The cliff descending method to facilitate parallel view during endoscopic submucosal dissection in the gastric fornix
Post written by Douglas Motomura, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, and Toshitatsu Takao, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. This is a case of early gastric cancer in the fundus of the stomach. Treatment was provided with …
EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy using a pre-existing PEG with jejunal extension for target bowel opacification
Post written by Laurens Janssens, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. A 71-year-old woman presented with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and normal liver test results. A CT scan demonstrated gastric outlet obstruction (GOO). Extensive work-up could not reveal the etiology of an extrinsic duodenal compression, and we were unable …
Cholangioscopy-guided tunneling and coaxial stenting of a large choledocholithiasis: a novel approach to mechanical lithotripsy
Post written by Abdulrahman Qatomah, MBBS, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A large common bile duct stone was found in a patient with cholangitis. The stone was difficult to manage using the conventional ERCP method. Sessions of cholangioscopy-guided lithotripsy also failed to achieve stone fragmentation. We wanted to highlight …
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