Post written by Debdeep Banerjee, Saikiran Raghavapuram, and Benjamin Tharian from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. In this video submission, we describe a woman with a past history of breast cancer who had undergone mastectomy …
Continue reading Linitis plastica: a harbinger of an unusual cause of gastric wall thickening
Post written by Bing Hu, MB, from the Department of Gastroenterology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Our video case report describes a 34-year-old woman with refractory esophageal stricture that resulted from scar formation after endoscopic submucosal dissection of a fibroma. Esophagography showed the stricture located at the level of T6 with a …
Continue reading Endoscopic incision method to treat refractory esophageal stricture
Post written by Jennifer L. Horsley-Silva, MD, and David E. Fleischer, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Our video is of a surveillance colonoscopy that demonstrated a 12 mm elongated, pedunculated polyp that was “wormlike” in appearance and found in the ascending colon. An EndoLoop detachable ligating device …
Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) is an emerging weight loss technique. However, it is highly operator dependent and there is some variability in technique. In ESG, the volume of the stomach …
Continue reading Technical aspects of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty
Post written by Mehul Choksi, MD, DM, from S. L. Raheja Hospital in Mumbai, India. This video describes a patient who presented with primary bile duct stone formation 10 years after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. EUS showed presence of migrated surgical clips within the body of the bile duct stone. The migrated surgical clips actually act as a nidus …
Continue reading Migrated surgical clips in bile duct stone suspected on EUS and verified on ERCP
Post written by Laith H. Jamil, MD, FASGE, FACG from Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. An 18 mm X 12 cm covered esophageal stent migrated into the mid-distal jejunum and did not migrate further for 4 weeks. The patient remained asymptomatic thus it was felt safe to attempt to remove the stent …
Continue reading Migrated stent retrieved via oral double-balloon enteroscopy
Post written by Daniela G. Vinsard, MD and Victoria Gómez, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. Our video case report describes a 90-year-old man with acute painless hematochezia and diverticular bleeding in the sigmoid colon, which was detected on a same day colonoscopy after a …
Continue reading Endoscopic band ligation in diverticular bleeding
Post written by Sauid Ishaq, FRCP from the Gastroenterology Department, Dudley Group Hospitals, Birmingham City University in Birmingham, United Kingdom and St George's University in Grenada, West Indies. In this video we demonstrate a novel technique of underwater endoscopic mucosal resection (UEMR) without submucosal lift of a low rectal recurrent polyp (90 mm) reaching the dentate line. …
Continue reading Rectal polyp reaching the dentate line: underwater EMR without submucosal lift
Post written by Jason Behary, MBBS, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, St George Hospital and University of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia. Digital per-oral cholangioscopy performed under combined endoscopic and fluoroscopic control allows visualization and treatment of large and difficult to remove intra- and extrahepatic biliary calculi. A 200-micron holmium laser lithotripsy fiber …
Continue reading Holmium laser lithotripsy to manage complex biliary calculi
Post written by Hon Chi Yip from the Division of Upper Gastrointestinal and Metabolic Surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This video demonstrated successful removal of a fish bone that was deeply embedded inside the submucosa of proximal esophagus using the endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique. This video …
Continue reading ESD removal of submucosal embedded fish bone in the esophagus
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