Post written by Darina Kohoutova from the 2nd Department of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology, Charles University in Praha, Faculty of Medicine at Hradec Kralove, University Teaching Hospital, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic Gastric adenocarcinoma and proximal polyposis of the stomach (GAPPS) has to date been recognized in only 8 families worldwide. Recently, different point mutations within …
Esophageal stent for treatment of choledocholithiasis
Post written by Amy Tyberg, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA This case describes an elderly patient post-cholecystectomy with a markedly dilated bile duct and significant, persistent stone burden despite standard stone extraction techniques who ultimately achieved bile duct clearance with placement of a …
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Risk factors for bleeding after gastric ESD
Post written by Diogo Libânio, MD, from the Gastroenterology Department at the Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal The focus of our study was the identification of significant risk factors for bleeding after gastric endoscopic submucosal dissection (post-procedural bleeding). Additionally, we aimed at accurately estimating the proportion of patients in whom this adverse event develops …
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Editor’s Choice: EMR of lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum
Associate Editor Amit Rastogi, MD, FASGE, highlights this article from the October issue "Endoscopic mucosal resection of large and giant lateral spreading lesions of the duodenum: success, adverse events, and long-term outcomes" by Amir Klein, MD, Dhruv Nayyar, MD, Farzan F. Bahin, MBBS (Hons), FRACP, MPhi, et al. This study describes the short and long …
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A case of ampullary follicular lymphoma
Victoria Gomez, MD and Lady Katherine Mejia Perez, MD from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida present this video case. We describe the case of a 65-year-old man who was diagnosed with follicular lymphoma of the ampulla of Vater. He underwent an EGD for evaluation of long-standing symptoms …
pCLE and solitary rectal ulcer syndrome
Post written by Yunlu Feng, MD, and Aiming Yang, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, in Beijing, China Our article reported a 34-year-old male Chinese patient who presented with feeling of incomplete defecation and abdominal pain for more than 10 years. Colonoscopy showed a single rectal ulcer. Magnetic resonance imagine showed localized rectal …
Endoscopic management of malignant ileovesicular fistula
Toufic Kachaamy, MD, from the Western Regional Medical Center at Cancer Treatment Center of America, Goodyear, Arizona, USA, presents this video case "Successful endoscopic management of a malignant ileovesicular fistula." A 56-year-old man with history of metastatic colon cancer and prior treatment with subtotal colectomy, ileostomy, and multiple lines of chemotherapy presented with a few …
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Successful removal of esophageal submucosal tumor
Successful removal of an esophageal submucosal tumor by submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection technique Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD The Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy Brigham and Women’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, USA In this video, we describe a case of submucosal esophageal tumor successfully removed by a submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) technique. This is a …
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Endoscopic management of a gastrocolonic fistula
Toufic Kachaamy, MD, from the Western Regional Medical Center at Cancer Treatment Center of America, Goodyear, Arizona, USA, present this video case "Endoscopic management of a gastrocolonic fistula." A 55-year-old man presented with dysphagia secondary to esophageal adenocarcinoma. He underwent an esophageal stent placement with significant improvement in his dysphagia. His esophageal stent migrated a month …
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Duodenoscope and linear echoendoscope surveillance cultures
Associate Editor Fauze Maluf-Filho, MD, PhD, FASGE, highlights this Original Article from the September issue: "Surveillance of guideline practices for duodenoscope and linear echoendoscope reprocessing in a large healthcare system" by Jack Brandabur,MD, James E. Leggett, MD, Lian Wang, et al. This study demonstrates that even after adequate reprocessing of duodenoscopes and curvilinear EUS scopes, …
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