Post written by Maoyin Pang, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. A 56-year-old male with a history of laryngeal malignancy status post laryngectomy and permanent tracheostomy and tracheoesophageal voice prosthesis placed 12 years ago was referred to our clinic for recurrent aspiration of both liquid and solid …
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Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Gastric mucosal devitalization (GMD) rats had a lower body weight and reduced intrabdominal adiposity compared with sham surgery rats. The morphologic findings at 8 weeks postoperative were compared with those …
Post written by Muhammad Nadeem Yousaf, MD, and Harry R. Aslanian, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. In our video case series, we present endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging of common benign and malignant liver lesions. The cases presented include: liver cyst …
Post written by Giovanni D. De Palma, MD, from Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University Federico II of Naples, School of Medicine, Naples, Italy. Our paper presents a single-center, randomized, back-to-back trial which was designed to investigate the contribution of the EndoCuff device to the improvement of the adenoma eetection rate in the course …
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Post written by Malay Sharma, MD, DM, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Saket, Uttar Pradesh, India. A 4-year-old Indian boy presented with recurrent biliary colic and jaundice for 2 weeks. Laboratory investigations revealed obstructive jaundice. Abdominal ultrasonography (USG) revealed a normal gallbladder, intrahepatic biliary radicles dilation, and a dilated common bile …
Post written by Navin L. Kumar, MD and John R. Saltzman, MD, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The focus of our study was to develop and validate a concise assessment tool to evaluate real-time fellow performance in colonoscopy via a web-based application …
Post written by Peter B. Cotton, MD, FRCS, FRCP, from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The EPISOD study randomized 214 patients with post-cholecystectomy pain and little or no evidence of biliary obstruction (SOD type III) to sphincterotomy or sham intervention at ERCP. Intervention was judged successful at 1 year (by …
Post written by Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH, from Brigham Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is the most common healthcare-associated infection in the United States. Recently, fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has emerged as an effective and safe therapy for recurrent CDI; however, there is no standardized clinical approach. Given the rapid …
Post written by Lady Katherine Mejia Perez, MD, and Victoria Gómez, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. We describe a case of a 58-year-old man with necrotizing pancreatitis of biliary origin who underwent endoscopic drainage of a large, 12-cm pancreatic collection consistent with walled-off necrosis. A 15-mm diameter …
Continue reading Massive bleeding after EUS-guided walled-off necrosis drainage
Post written by Wai K. Leung, MD, from the Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Gastric cancer is still the fifth most common cancer in the world with approximately one million new patients being diagnosed each year. Although upper endoscopy remains the gold standard for diagnosis of gastric cancer and pre-neoplastic …
Continue reading Prior gastroscopy and mortality in patients with gastric cancer
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