Tae Il Kim, MD, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, in Seoul, Korea discusses this Original Article "High-risk metachronous polyps are more frequent in patients with traditional serrated adenomas than in patients with conventional adenomas: a multicenter prospective study." Conventional adenomas (CAs) are major precursor lesions of colorectal cancer …
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Sun-Chuan Dai, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA presents this VideoGIE "Intragastric balloons: an introduction and removal technique for the endoscopist." This is a video presentation of a 40-year-old female who had requested removal of an intragastric weight-loss balloon that had been placed 2 months to her presentation. …
Benjamin Tharian, MD, MRCP, FRACP, from the Centre for Interventional Endoscopy, Florida Hospital, in Orlando, Florida, USA presents this VideoGIE case, "Successful removal of a foreign body from a gallbladder remnant by using a new single-operator digital cholangioscope." A 34-year-old female with a history of an incomplete laparoscopic cholecystectomy developed right upper quadrant pain and …
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Samir C. Grover, MD, MEd, FRCPC, from the Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada describes this Original Article, "Impact of a simulation training curriculum on technical and nontechnical skills in colonoscopy: a randomized trial." The optimal manner to deliver simulation-based training in endoscopy has yet to be determined. The purpose of …
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Shin-ei Kudo, MD, PhD, from the Digestive Disease Center, Showa University, Northern Yokohama Hospital, in Yokohama, Japan presents this Original Article "Endocytoscopic microvasculature evaluation is a reliable new diagnostic method for colorectal lesions (with video)." We clarified the efficacy of endocytoscopic vascular pattern (EC-V) for colorectal lesions. The diagnostic accuracy of EC-V was comparable to …
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Kei Yane, MD, from the Center for Gastroenterology, Teine-Keijinkai Hospital, in Sapporo, Japan presents this VideoGIE "Endoscopic retrieval of a proximally migrated biliary stent after pancreaticoduodenectomy by use of a short-type single-balloon enteroscope." Our video case describes the successful retrieval of a proximally migrated biliary stent after pancreaticoduodenectomy using a short-type single-balloon enteroscope (short SBE). …
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Krishnavel V. Chathadi, MD, Director of Endoscopic Services for Gastroenterology, Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Henry Ford Health System, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, discusses this update to an ASGE document, "The role of endoscopy in ampullary and duodenal adenomas." This document focuses on the role of endoscopy in the evaluation and management of sporadic ampullary and duodenal …
Vivek Kumbhari, MD from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA shares this VideoGIE case, "Endoscopic management of stomal stenosis after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass." A 39-year-old female was referred for management of a stomal stricture 14 years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. She …
Saowanee Ngamruengphong, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore, Maryland, USA describes this VideoGIE case, "Endoscopic reversal of gastric bypass for severe malnutrition after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery." A 38-year-old woman who had undergone Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery was admitted with ongoing …
Vinay Dhir, MD, FASGE, from the Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences in Mumbai, India discusses this Original Article, "EUS-guided pseudocyst drainage: Prospective evaluation of early removal of fully covered self expandable metal stents with pancreatic ductal stenting in selected patients." The study focused on 2 aspects of pseudocyst drainage (PD). Firstly, whether it is possible …
