Post written by Ryan Law, DO, from the Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. A 41-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of nausea, post-prandial pain, dysphagia to solid food, and intermittent regurgitation. During her evaluation, she was found to have a 4-cm long outpouching suggestive of an epiphrenic diverticulum as …
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Short-term outcomes of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty in 1000 consecutive patients
Post written by Aayed Alqahtani, MD, FRCSC, FACS, from the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For many patients with obesity, bariatric surgery is not a suitable option. Some patients are not eligible for weight-loss surgery under current conventional criteria. Additionally, many patients who are eligible for bariatric surgery …
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EUS-guided drainage of a pelvic abscess
Post written by Ignacio Fernández-Urién, MD, PhD, from the Gastroenterology Department, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Navarra, Spain. We presented the case of a 50-year-old woman with an 8-cm pelvic abscess secondary to an acute diverticulitis that was drained guided by EUS. First, we punctured the lesion with a 19-gauge needle, and 5 mL of purulent …
Hybrid argon plasma coagulation: a new modality for treatment of a diffuse foregut anastomotic dysplastic lesion
Post written by Truptesh H. Kothari, MD, from the Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States. Our case was an elderly patient who had history of Roux-en-y gastric bypass many years ago, now presented to his gastroenterologist for abdominal pain. On upper …
Different risk factors between early and late cancer recurrences after noncurative ESD
Post written by Waku Hatta, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan. Our study focused on evaluating the risk factors of early and late cancer recurrences in patients who were followed up without additional radical surgery after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer (EGC) categorized …
ESD and submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection for obstructive lipomas
Post written by Georgios Mavrogenis, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens, Greece. This video describes the resection of an obstructive duodenal lipoma by means of submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER) and the resection of obstructive colonic lipoma by means of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) Big lipomas are always challenging to remove. The …
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Duration or etiology of gastroparesis and clinical response after gastric per-oral endoscopic pyloromyotomy
Post written by Parit Mekaroonkamol, MD, Vaishali Patel, MD, MHS, and Qiang Cai, MD, PhD, from the Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, and the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Gastric per-oral endoscopic pyloromyotomy (GPOEM) is an emerging endoscopic procedure for treatment of gastroparesis. Although multiple studies have demonstrated impressive clinical …
“Posterior-like” anterior per-oral endoscopic myotomy
Post written by Georgios Mavrogenis, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Mediterraneo Hospital, Athens, Greece. Endoscopists are free to choose between anterior of posterior based on their preference. Recent data illustrate that posterior POEM is faster and less prone to mucosal injuries. Conversely, some studies have associated anterior POEM with less post-myotomy acid reflux. We …
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Why did the sham-treated EPISOD study subjects do so well?
Post written by Peter B. Cotton, MD, FRCS, FRCP, from the Digestive Disease Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. The EPISOD study showed that sphincterotomy was not helpful for patients with post-cholecystectomy pain and little or no evidence for biliary obstruction (“SOD type III”). The conclusion was surprising; especially to those …
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Endoscopic replacement technique for migrated LAMS during endoscopic pancreatic necrosectomy
Post written by Mitsuru Okuno, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Municipal Hospital, Gifu, Japan. EUS-guided drainage of walled-off necrosis (WON) is the accepted efficient and safe standard of care. The LAMS has a large lumen (up to 10 mm) and dual flanges that tightly adhere the LAMS to the fistula within the …
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