Endoscopic therapy for Crohn’s fistula and abscess

Post written by Bo Shen, MD, FASGE, from the Interventional IBD Unit, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Treatment of disease-related or surgery-related Crohn’s fistula, abscess, and surgical anastomotic leaks with endoscopy-guided fistulotomy and sinusotomy with electroincision, seton placement, through-the-scope or over-the-scope clipping, suturing, incision and drainage. Crohn’s disease has 3 phenotypes: inflammatory, structuring, and …

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Editor’s Choice: Double-balloon enteroscopy in Crohn’s disease

GIE Associate Editor Dr. David Schwartz recommends this Original Article from the July issue, "Double-balloon enteroscopy in Crohn’s disease: findings and impact on management in a multicenter retrospective study" by Semrad et al.  In this article, the authors present a multicenter retrospective study looking at the impact of double balloon enteroscopy (DBE) in the management of …

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