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Repeat peroral endoscopic myotomy: technical difficulty and risk factors

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Post written by Li-Yun Ma, MD, from the Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Endoscopy, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Repeat peroral endoscopic myotomy (Re-POEM) has appeared to be a promising salvage option for patients with persistent/recurrent symptoms after initial peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), but it may be more technical challenging. …

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Safety and efficacy of direct percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy tube placement compared with surgical jejunostomy: a tertiary care analysis

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Post written by Shajan Peter, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Basil Hirschowitz Center of Advanced Endoscopy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. We examined cases over 5 years of enteral tube feeding placement. We further divided the patients into cohorts for the traditional open laparotomy approach, laparoscopic jejunostomy, and direct percutaneous endoscopic …

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Adverse events of the single-operator cholangioscopy system: a Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database analysis

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Post written by Saurabh Chandan, MD, from the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA, and the Center for Interventional Endoscopy, Advent Health, Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary aim of our study was to assess and report all adverse events (AEs), including those device- and patient-related, associated with the single-operator cholangioscopy (SOC) system (SpyGlass; Boston …

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Comparison of technical failures and patient-related adverse events associated with 3 widely used mechanical lithotripters for ERCP: insights from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience database

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Post written by Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, from the Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Centura Health, Denver, Colorado, USA, and incoming GIE Editor-in-Chief. We analyzed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database for all reports of patient-related adverse events and device failures associated with the 3 …

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Comparison of 22-gauge standard and Franseen needles in EUS-guided tissue acquisition for diagnosing solid pancreatic lesions: a multicenter randomized controlled trial

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Post written by Masahiro Itonaga, MD, and Masayuki Kitano, MD, PhD, from the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan. To the best of our knowledge, no large multicenter randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have compared EUS-guided tissue acquisition (EUS-TA) using standard needles and Franseen needles for the diagnosis of solid pancreatic lesions. …

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Editor’s Choice: Novel classification for adverse events in GI endoscopy: the AGREE classification

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GIE Senior Associate Editor and incoming Editor-in-Chief Douglas G. Adler, MD, FASGE, highlights this article from the June issue: “Novel classification for adverse events in GI endoscopy: the AGREE classification” by Karlijn J. Nass, MD, et al. Several classification systems for evaluating and grading adverse events have been developed over the years, but none have received widespread …

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Novel classification for adverse events in GI endoscopy: the AGREE classification

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Post written by Paul Fockens, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Research Institute Amsterdam Gastroenterology & Metabolism, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Our research showed that there is no commonly used classification for adverse events in GI endoscopy (AGREE). We developed and tested a new classification based on a universally …

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Evaluating the impact of frailty on periprocedural adverse events and mortality among patients with GI bleeding

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Post written by Camilo J. Acosta, MD David Goldberg, MD Sunil Amin, MD, MPH, from the Department of Medicine, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA and Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA. Frailty is common and has been extensively studied as a …

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Distance from hospital impacts adverse event detection

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Post written by Rajesh N. Keswani, MD, MS, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The objective of this study was to determine the hospital utilization patterns of patients with endoscopy-related adverse events (AEs), including death, after ambulatory endoscopy at 5 Chicago-area medical centers. We specifically aimed to investigate whether care fragmentation, which is …

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Predicting adverse events associated with therapeutic colonoscopy

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Post written by Ryota Niikura , MD, PhD from the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Our study focused on a large sample size of various therapeutic colonoscopies and data on the use of drugs that might increase the risk of bleeding, such as anticoagulants and antithrombotics, NSAIDs, and steroids. …

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