Tag: Endoscopy

Endoscopic therapy for Crohn’s fistula and abscess

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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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Lactated Ringer’s Solution in Combination with Rectal Indomethacin

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Post written by Shaffer R. S. Mok, MD, MBS, from Cooper University Hospital. The present fund of knowledge available for the prevention of pancreatitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is growing. With available data evaluating rectal indomethacin and early studies assessing lactated ringer’s (LR) infusion, we felt it necessary to study the combination of these …

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Prediction model for non-curative resection of ESD

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Post written by Jun Chul Park from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine. In deciding on a treatment method for EGC that is considered to be within the expanded criteria, both patients and doctors may feel burdened by the probability of additional surgery after ESD because …

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Salvage resection of recurrent polyp after polypectomy

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Post written by Michiko Wada, MD, and Toshio Uraoka, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan. We report a case of a 77-year-old woman who had undergone polypectomy for a polyp on the anastomosis of past laparoscopic sigmoidectomy but was referred to our endoscopy unit with recurrent polyp. …

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Timing of upper endoscopy influences outcomes in patients with acute nonvariceal upper GI bleeding

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Post written by Navin L. Kumar, MD, and John R. Saltzman, MD, from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. The focus of our study was to assess whether patients admitted with acute nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) with lower-risk vs high-risk bleeding have different …

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Identification of volumetric laser endomicroscopy features predictive for early neoplasia

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Post written by Anne-Fré Swager from the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands The focus of our study was to understand what we truly see on VLE: What do the VLE structures represent on histology? The aims were therefore to identify VLE features of Barrett's neoplasia and to develop a VLE prediction score. We used …

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Overtube-assisted pneumatic dilation for achalasia in megaesophagus

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Post written by Shashideep Singhal from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. A 63-year-old man with a long-standing history of achalasia presented for pneumatic dilation. Several technical problems were associated with pneumatic balloo dilation in this case, which had resulted in failure of an earlier attempt. Because of a tortuous megaesophagus with …

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Over-the-scope clip-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection

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Post written by Louis M. Wong Kee Song from the Mayo Clinic. The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of over-the-scope clip-assisted endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR) technique for removal of epithelial and subepithelial lesions in the GI tract. EFTR allows for definitive diagnosis and treatment of select subepithelial and epithelial …

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Linitis plastica: a harbinger of an unusual cause of gastric wall thickening

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Post written by Debdeep Banerjee, Saikiran Raghavapuram, and Benjamin Tharian from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. In this video submission, we describe a woman with a past history of breast cancer who had undergone mastectomy …

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Overbooking and recruitment increases uptake of appointments among African American patients

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Post written by Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, from the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Network and UCLA Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases. African Americans see several disparities in healthcare utilization and healthcare outcomes. These disparities also occur in utilization of common gastroenterological procedures. African Americans are less likely than white Americans …

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