Lianyong Li, MD, PhD and Qiang Cai, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, PLA 306th Hospital, Beijing, China and the Department of Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, respectively, present this video case. A 62-year-old male with Zenker’s diverticulum (ZD) underwent endoscopic diverticulectomy for dysphagia and weight …
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Editor-in-Chief Mike Wallace, MD, MPH, highlights this article from the December issue “The use of hemostatic spray as an adjunct to conventional hemostatic measures in high-risk nonvariceal upper GI bleeding (with video)” by Ryota Niikura, MD, PhD, Hideo Yasunaga, MD, PhD, Atsuo Yamada, MD, PhD, Hiroki Matsui, PhD, Kiyohide Fushimi, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Hirata, MD, …
Post written by Ryota Niikura , MD, PhD from the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo Our study focused on a large sample size of various therapeutic colonoscopies and data on the use of drugs that might increase the risk of bleeding, such as anticoagulants and antithrombotics, NSAIDs, and steroids. …
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Claudio Zulli, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy Unit, NOCSAE Hospital, AUSL, Modena presents this video case. A 58-year-old man was referred to the Transplant Unit for an “urgent” orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) due to decompensated alcoholic liver cirrhosis. Abdominal ultrasound (US) and a CT-scan revealed a mild left intra-hepatic biliary duct dilation and an …
Alan H. Tieu, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland presents this video case. Therapy for symptomatic epiphrenic diverticulum typically involves surgical myomectomy or diverticulectomy with high morbidity. We demonstrate a purely endoscopic technique for the management of a large symptomatic epiphrenic …
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Post written by Tae Jun Song, MD, PhD and Sang Soo Lee, MD, PhD from the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea Preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) with stent placement has been commonly used for patients with malignant biliary obstruction. In PBD, the placement of fully-covered …
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Jae Hee Cho, MD, PhD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gachon University, Gil Medical Center, Incheon, Republic of Korea presents this video case. A patient who underwent biliary plastic stent placement for pancreatic head cancer with central bile duct (CBD) invasion was admitted for hematochezia. Abdominal enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed …
Enqiang Linghu from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy at Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China presents this video case. The video demonstrated 3 kinds of submucosal tunneling techniques that were simultaneously performed through 1 tunnel in a 53-year-old female patient, namely submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection (STER), submucosal tunneling endoscopic diverticulotomy (STED), and per-oral …
Continue reading Through one tunnel, POEM, STER, and STED simultaneously operated
Kenichiro Imai from the Division of Endoscopy, Shizuoka Cancer Center presents this video case. We demonstrated complete circumferential colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) using an insulated-tip knife. Colonoscopy in a 70-year-old woman showed a 15-cm circumferential laterally spreading tumor (LST) in the upper rectum. Through the use of magnified endoscopy, we diagnosed non-invasive cancer, so we …
Post written by Kyu Yeon Hahn and Jun Chul Park from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea The focus of our study was to identify the incidence of recurrent lesions after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer (EGC) and to determine whether …
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