Single-step EUS-guided stent puncture and delivery

Anthony Yuen Bun Teoh, FRCSEd (Gen) from the Department of Surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, China shares this video case from the VideoGIE section "Single-step EUS-guided puncture and delivery of a lumen-apposing stent for gallbladder drainage using a novel cautery-tipped stent delivery system." …

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The 25G EUS-FNA needle

Shyam Varadarajulu, MD from the Center for Interventional Endoscopy at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida, USA discusses his Original Article "The 25G EUS-FNA needle: Good for onsite but poor for offsite evaluation?" When rapid onsite cytology evaluation is not available, cell block is used as a technique for off-site interpretation of endoscopic ultrasound-fine needle aspiration …

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New hybrid metal stent for EUS-guided biliary drainage

Tae Jun Song, MD, PhD and Sang Soo Lee, MD, PhD from University of Ulsan in Seoul, South Korea report on their New Methods article "Preliminary report on a new hybrid metal stent for EUS-guided biliary drainage (with videos)." We investigated the feasibility and safety of a newly developed self-expandable metal stent tailored for use …

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Tract dilation with stent retrieval device

Takao Itoi, MD, PhD, FASGE from the Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan shares his VideoGIE case "Tract dilation with a stent retrieval device in EUS-guided pancreatic duct stent placement." Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS)-guided pancreatic duct (PD) stenting is always challenging. Apart from EUS-guided biliary drainage, it may be more difficult to dilate the needle tract …

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Transgastric gallstone extraction

Takao Itoi, MD, PhD, FASGE from the Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan presents this video case "Transgastric large gallstone extraction in a patient with acute cholecystitis through a lumen-apposing metal stent (with video)" from the April issue. A Tokyo guideline in 2013 proposed that percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) is considered a safe alternative …

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Celiac Artery Compression

Vishal Ghevariya, MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Elmhurst, New York shares this video case "Celiac Artery Compression: EUS Evaluation" from the April issue. A 51-year-old man presented for evaluation of abdominal discomfort. The discomfort was epigastric, nonradiating, accompanied by heartburn, and without specific aggravating/alleviating factors. He denied nocturnal/postprandial association …

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EUS-Guided Drainage of Pseudocyst

Payal Saxena, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA presents this video case "EUS-Guided Drainage of a Giant Hemorrhagic Pseudocyst by a Through-the-scope Esophageal Metal Stent." A 78-year-old man with hemorrhagic transformation of a 17cm pseudocyst was hemodynamically unstable requiring splenic artery embolization. …

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EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy to treat gastric varices

The authors share some insights about their Original Article "EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy for the treatment of gastric varices: a multicenter study (with videos)" from the November issue. Authors of this paper include Rafael Romero-Castro, MD, PhD,*  Mark Ellrichmann, MD,* Carlos Ortiz-Moyano, MD, PhD, Jose Carlos Subtil-Inigo, MD, PhD, Felix Junquera-Florez, MD, Joan B. …

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Editor’s Choice: EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy

Associate Editor Mimi Canto, MD, MHS, FASGE, highlights this Original Article "EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy for the treatment of gastric varices: a multicenter study (with videos)" by Rafael Romero-Castro, MD, PhD,*  Mark Ellrichmann, MD,* Carlos Ortiz-Moyano, MD, PhD, Jose Carlos Subtil-Inigo, MD, PhD, Felix Junquera-Florez, MD, Joan B. Gornals, MD, Alejandro Repiso-Ortega, MD, Juan …

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