Suryaprakash Bhandari, MD, from the Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences, Global Hospitals, in Mumbai, India shares this video case "Fracture of basket within the bile duct during Soehendra rescue lithotripsy, extracted after cholangioscope-guided laser lithotripsy." An 80-year-old female diagnosed with a large common bile duct (CBD) stone (2.2 X 1.5 cm) underwent ERCP and failed …
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Christopher J. DiMaio, MD, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, New York discusses this Original Article, "Transpapillary drainage has no added benefit on treatment outcomes in patients undergoing EUS-guided transmural drainage of pancreatic pseudocysts: a large multicenter study." Over the past 15 years, there has been a marked paradigm …
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Sami Almaskeen, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA shares this VideoGIE case "Over-the-scope stent: a novel technique for stent elongation and deployment." Migration of a fully covered self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) interferes with its effectiveness in closing GI leaks. We report a case of gastric leak that failed …
Lorenzo Fuccio, MD, from the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, in Bologna, Italy discusses this Original Article, "Development of a prediction model of adverse events after stent placement for esophageal cancer." We conducted a retrospective analysis of a large database including 267 patients with dysphagia owing to esophageal cancer and treated …
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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 …
Federico Iacopini, MD, from Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy, Ospedale San Giuseppe, in Rome, Italy discusses this Original Article "Prognostic variables for the clinical success of flexible endoscopic septotomy of Zenker’s diverticulum." Flexible endoscopic septotomy for Zenker’s diverticulum has a large popularity due to its mini-invasiveness compared to endostapling and surgery but strong long-term clinical data …
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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 …
Keisuke Hori, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, in Okayama, Japan discusses this Original Article, "Propofol sedation with a target-controlled infusion pump and bispectral index monitoring system in elderly patients during a complex upper endoscopy procedure." The focus of our study was …
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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 …
Rupert W. Leong, MBBS, FRACP, MD, AGAF, from the Gastroenterology and Liver Services, Bankstown-Lidcombe and Concord Hospital, in Concord, New South Wales, Australia discusses this Original Article "The learning curve, interobserver, and intraobserver agreement of endoscopic confocal laser endomicroscopy in the assessment of mucosal barrier defects." Mucosal barrier defects lead to abnormal intestinal permeability which …
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