Managing acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis

Ji Young Bang, MD, MPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA presents this video case "Management of acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis after EUS-guided FNA of a pancreatic cyst." Our VideoGIE video describes a case of a patient presenting with acute pancreatitis and a hemorrhagic pancreatic fluid collection (PFC) following EUS-FNA …

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Incarcerated, retroflexed endoscope associated with a paraesophageal hernia

Herbert C. Wolfsen, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA describes this video case "Incarcerated, retroflexed endoscope associated with a paraesophageal hernia." An elderly woman underwent upper endoscopy in our ASC to evaluate GERD symptoms and dysphagia in setting of PEH. Unfortunately, the endoscope could not be easily passed …

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Novel food impaction retrieval technique

George B. Saffouri, MD, and Louis M. Wong Kee Song, MD, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota, USA share this VideoGIE case "Burn and anchor: a novel food impaction retrieval technique." Both video cases demonstrate challenging, meaty food impactions with patients unable to manage their secretions. Standard push …

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A new-age “rescue” lithotripsy

Suryaprakash Bhandari, MD, from the Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, Global Hospitals, in Mumbai, India, shares this VideoGIE case "Single-operator cholangioscopy-guided holmium laser lithotripsy: the new-age 'rescue' lithotripsy." A 40-year-old woman with a large bile duct (BD) stone was referred for ERCP. Cholangiography revealed a dilated BD with a single large stone within the relative narrowing of the …

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Combined Mirizzi syndrome with Bouveret syndrome

Austin L. Chiang, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, presents this video case "Combined Mirizzi syndrome with Bouveret syndrome." An 87-year-old man initially presented with hematemesis and was found on CT scan to have a large gallstone in the duodenum with a possible cholecystoduodenal fistula, both of which were also noted on …

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How to review a video case report

Written by Ryan Law, DO, from the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. The review process for video case reports is somewhat different than standard manuscript submissions. The focus is less on critiquing statistical methods and result interpretation and more on evaluating the displayed case or case series …

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Demonstration of 2 different indications for endoscopic suturing in a single case of esophageal leak

Brian S. Lim, MD, MCR, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center/University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine, in Riverside, California, USA writes about this VideoGIE case "Weaving through the twists and turns of the fish bone case: demonstration of 2 different indications for endoscopic suturing in a single case of esophageal …

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YAG laser lithotripsy for impacted stone

Ryosuke Tonozuka, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan presents this VideoGIE case, "Holmium: YAG laser lithotripsy through an EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy route." Treatment of biliary calculi in patients with surgically altered anatomy is often challenging despite the development of balloon enteroscopy (BE). This video showed holmium: YAG …

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Clipping and transection of a crossing blood vessel

Ilaria Tarantino, MD, from the Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione, in Palermo, Italy presents this video case "Clipping and transection of a crossing blood vessel during transgastric endoscopic necrosectomy." A 52-year-old woman with pancreatic  insufficiency was referred to our institute for EUS-guided drainage of  …

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