Post written by Nicholas M. McDonald, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. In our video manuscript, we describe a case of recurrent malignant biliary and duodenal obstruction that was caused by tumor ingrowth after prior coaxial biliary and metal stenting. The tumor ingrowth was treated with …
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Post written by Brian S. Lim, MD, MCR, FASGE, from the School of Medicine, University of California, and the Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, California, USA. A 60-year-old male presented with right lower-quadrant pain and fever. CT (computed tomography) abdomen showed acute appendicitis, but also an incidental biliary stent. The atient …
Post written by Malay Sharma from the Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital. We present a case of acute cholangitis due to biliary ascariasis mimicking biliary stent on ultrasonography. Biliary ascariasis is not commonly seen in western countries, hence the reason for showcasing this video. A 50-year-old-man presented with acute cholangitis. He underwent multiple ERCP procedures with …
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Tadahisa Inoue, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Prefectural Tajimi Hospital, in Gifu, Japan, describes this New Methods article "Feasibility of the placement of a novel 6-mm diameter threaded fully covered self-expandable metal stent for malignant hilar biliary obstructions (with videos)." The focus of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of …
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Vivek Kumbhari, MD from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA shares this video case "EUS-guided biliary drainage made safer by a combination of hepaticogastrostomy and antegrade transpapillary stenting." A 61-year-old male presented with malignant biliary obstruction secondary to locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. …
Mahesh Kumar Goenka, MD, DM, FACG, FASGE from the Institute of Gastroenterology, Department of Interventional Radiology at Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals in Kolkata, India shares this VideoGIE case "Fully covered self-expandable metal biliary stent for hemobilia caused by portal biliopathy." Overt bleeding from an ampulla after plastic biliary stent removal in portal biliopathy is a life …
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Vishal Ghevariya, MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York shares this video case titled "EUS-guided hepatogastrostomy with double stenting." Minimally invasive biliary drainage techniques have recently gained popularity among interventional endoscopy services. We present the technique of hepatogastrostomy creation for malignant biliary obstruction in a 54-year-old man with biliary stricture …
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