Post written by Todd H. Baron, MD, MASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Director of Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. This is a patient who had terminal cancer and sigmoid colonic obstruction not adequately relieved by overlapping, well-positioned, self-expandable metal luminal stents. Because he …
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Axis-keeping shortening technique for colonic intubation
Post written by Shunsuke Yamamoto, MD, PhD, Yasushi Sano, MD, PhD, Nima Mottacki, MD, and Helmut Neumann, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan, the Gastrointestinal Center, Sano Hospital, Kobe, Japan, the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden, …
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Endoscopic treatment of colonic diverticular bleeding with an over-the-scope clip after failure of endoscopic band ligation
Post written by Kenji Yamazaki, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Prefectural General Medical Center, Gifu, Japan. We describe a case of an 86-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and colonic diverticular bleeding (CDB) who presented with severe hematochezia to a nearby medical institution. Emergency colonoscopy revealed an active diverticular hemorrhage in …
Reversal and reloading of a 22-mm duodenal stent for urgent decompression of malignant colonic obstruction
Post written by Keshav Kukreja, MD, Aman Deep, MD, and Tomas DaVee, MD, MSCI, from the Department of Gastroenterology, USF Health Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, and the Interventional Gastroenterology at the University of Texas (iGUT), McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA. Our video case describes a 57-year-old woman …
Pulley traction-assisted colonic ESD affords good visibility of submucosal layer
Post written by Satoki Shichijo, MD, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan. We performed endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for a laterally spreading tumor involving a diverticulum in the posterior wall of ascending colon. We performed traction-assisted colonic ESD using a clip-and-line, which usually makes ESD safe and efficient by …
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