Dayna S. Early, MD, from Washington University School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri, USA discusses this Original Article, "Patient preferences of a resect and discard paradigm." Resect and discard is a new paradigm for management of diminutive polyps, in which small polpys are resected and discarded instead of being …
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Lorenzo Fuccio, MD, from the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, in Bologna, Italy discusses this Original Article, "Higher adenoma recurrence rate after left- versus right-sided colectomy for colon cancer." This study assessed the risk of the development of metachronous precancerous lesions according to the site of colonic resection …
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Mary A. Atia, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic Arizona in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA discusses this Original Article, "Nonneoplastic polypectomy during screening colonoscopy: the impact on polyp detection rate, adenoma detection rate, and overall cost." The frequency of non-neoplastic polypectomy (NNP) is tissue constituting normal colonic mucosa or lymphoid aggregates. …
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Sascha C. van Doorn, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Academic Medical Centre at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands discusses this Original Article "Adenoma detection rate varies greatly during colonoscopy training." During endoscopy training of gastroenterology fellows (GI-fellows), the most important competency for colonoscopy is safe cecal intubation. …
Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, FRCPC, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada discusses this Original Article "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool: reliability and validity evidence." The main purpose of this study was to prospectively examine evidence of the reliability and validity of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy …
John R. Saltzman, MD, FASGE, Director of Endoscopy at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Editor of GIE describes this latest document from the ASGE Standards of Practice committee titled "Bowel preparation before colonoscopy." The latest information about the current available preps including their efficacy, cost, safety …
Nikolaj Nerup, MD from the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at Copenhagen University Hospital in Herlev, Denmark discusses this Original Article "Assessment of colonoscopy by use of magnetic endoscopic imaging: design and validation of an automated tool." The focus of our study was to develop and explore the validity of an automated unbiased assessment tool. The tool should …
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Associate Editor Dr. Seth Gross highlights this article “SCENIC international consensus statement on surveillance and management of dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease” by Loren Laine, MD, Tonya Kaltenbach, MD, Alan Barkun, MD, Kenneth R. McQuaid, MD, Venkataraman Subramanian, MD, and Roy Soetikno, MD for the SCENIC Guideline Development Panel as March’s Editor’s Choice. The article …
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Bo-In Lee, MD, PhD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital at The Catholic University of Korea in Seoul, Korea discusses this Original Article "Cold snare polypectomy versus cold forceps polypectomy for diminutive and small colorectal polyps: a randomized controlled trial." Cold snare should be considered first for the complete resection of colorectal polyp …
Rungsun Rerknimitr, MD, Director of GI Endoscopy Excellence Center at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand and President of the Thai Association of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (TAGE) 2014-2015, discusses this Original Article "A combination of clinical risk stratification and fecal immunochemical test results to prioritize colonoscopy screening in asymptomatic participants." The incidence of colorectal …
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