Srinadh Komanduri, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, USA presents this case from the VideoGIE series, "Control of immediate post-EMR bleeding by using monopolar hemostatic forceps." The video depicts a case of a significant post-polypectomy arterial bleed and the appropriate management of this adverse event. …
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Plastic biliary stent patency
Phillip S. Ge, MD and V. Raman Muthusamy, MD from the Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA discuss their Original Article, "Plastic biliary stent patency in patients with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma receiving downstaging chemotherapy." Malignant biliary obstruction due to pancreatic cancer is a challenging clinical …
Adult ileocolic intussusception
Rodrigo de Rezende Zago, MD from Hospital Sírio-Libanês and Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz in São Paulo, Brazil presents this VideoGIE case "Adult ileocolic intussusception: endoscopic treatment." This case demonstrates a 21-year-old woman with abdominal pain who was diagnosed with ileocolic intussception on CT scan. We decided to perform colonoscopy with anterograde bowel cleaning due to …
Endoscopic removal of large common bile duct stone
Ryan Law, DO from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA presents this video case "Endoscopic removal of a large common bile duct stone: more than one way to skin a cat." This video demonstrates successful removal of a "cat's eye" calculus within the common bile duct using single-balloon …
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Editor’s Choice- Musculoskeletal injuries related to endoscopy
Associate Editor Dr. John Saltzman highlights this article "Prevalence and risk factors for musculoskeletal injuries related to endoscopy" by Ridtitid et al as February's Editor's Choice. This article documents among endoscopists the high rate of work-related injuries. In a survey of 684 endoscopists who belong to the ASGE, the authors' found that 362 (53%) experienced …
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Tamponade of a bleeding pseudocyst
Amy Tyberg, MD from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York, USA presents this video case, "Tamponade of a bleeding pseudocyst with a fully covered metal stent." This video describes a case of an endoscopic-ultrasound (EUS) guided pseudocyst drainage that was complicated by bleeding into the cyst cavity seen on EUS imaging. The …
Endoscopic resection of giant esophageal leiomyoma
Vivek Kumbhari, MD from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA presents this video case "Submucosal tunneling endoscopic resection of a giant esophageal leiomyoma." A 53-year-old woman presented for evaluation of a 2-month history of progressive dysphagia and chest pain. A chest CT …
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Pancreatic necrosectomy using lumen-apposing stent
Amy Tyberg, MD from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York, USA presents this video case, "Pancreatic Necrosectomy when using a Lumen-Apposing Metal Stent." This video describes a case of a patient with pancreatic walled-off necrosis who failed endoscopic drainage using plastic pigtail stents and subsequently underwent successful endoscopic drainage with a fully-covered, …
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Bypassing the bypass
Nikhil A. Kumta, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York, USA presents this video case, "Bypassing the bypass: EUS-directed transgastric ERCP for Roux-en-Y anatomy." Patients with altered anatomy from a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass pose distinct challenges to performing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). In this …
Successful EMR of large adenoma
Ryan Law, DO from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, USA shares this case from the VideoGIE section "Prevention of delayed perforation after resection of a massive lateral wall duodenal polyp by using an anchored, fully-covered self-expandable metal stent." This video demonstrates successful endoscopic mucosal …
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