Nah Kyum Lee, MD, and Do Hyun Park, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, in Seoul, South Korea present this VideoGIE case "EUS-guided trans-aortic fine-needle aspiration for intra-abdominal plasmacytoma in a patient with multiple myeloma." Our video case describes EUS-guided trans-aortic fine-needle aspiration (FNA) for …
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Fluorescence cytology during EUS-FNA
Tsukasa Ikeura, MD, PhD, from the Third Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan shares this New Methods article titled "Fluorescence cytology with 5-aminolevulinic acid in EUS-guided FNA as a method for differentiating between malignant and benign lesions (with video)." 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), a photosensitizer, is metabolized into protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) in the …
Female authorship in academic gastroenterology
Michelle T. Long, MD, from the Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA discusses this article "Female authorship in major academic gastroenterology journals: a look over 20 years." This was a retrospective study to determine the representation of female physicians among authors of original research in major US gastroenterology journals. …
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Flexible endoscopic Zenker’s diverticulotomy
Alan H. Tieu, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, USA shares this video case "Flexible endoscopic Zenker’s diverticulotomy." We demonstrate a technique of flexible endoscopic diverticulotomy for management of Zenker’s diverticulum (ZD). A 73-year-old male presents with dysphagia, regurgitation, …
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Intraprocedural fluoroscopy with POEM
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 New Methods article "Intraprocedural fluoroscopy to determine the extent of the cardiomyotomy during per-oral endoscopic myotomy (with video)." One of the major technical challenges in performing per-oral endoscopic myotomy …
GI Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool
Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, FRCPC, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada discusses this Original Article "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool: reliability and validity evidence." The main purpose of this study was to prospectively examine evidence of the reliability and validity of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy …
Endoscopic features of lymphoproliferative diseases
Georgios Mavrogenis, MD, from the Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, in Brussels, Belgium describes this VideoGIE case "Endoscopic features of lymphoproliferative diseases." This video presents a case series of common and rare lymphomas of the GI tract. Diagnosis of lymphomas is challenging. Lymphoproliferative disorders of the GI tract are rare …
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EUS-guided drainage using metal stents
Ryosuke Tonozuka, MD, from the Depatment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan discusses this New Methods article "EUS-guided drainage of hepatic abscess and infected biloma using short and long metal stents (with videos)." Refractory hepatic abscess (HA) and infected biloma (IBL), in which inflammation does not improve only by the …
Ruptured varix: tips to tackle the demon
Vishal Ghevariya, MD, from Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, California, USA describes this video case "Ruptured varix: tips to tackle the demon." A 36-year-old man with alcohol induced liver cirrhosis presented with hematemesis. After initial resuscitation, an upper endoscopy was performed. Several columns of Grade III varices were noted in the esophagus. Two fibrin …
Editor’s Choice- When trainees reach competency in performing ERCP
Associate Editor, Douglas Adler, MD, highlights this article from the June issue of GIE--"When trainees reach competency in performing ERCP: a systematic review" by Drs Neal Shahidi, George Ou, Jennifer Telford, and Robert Enns. The article critically assesses papers that have looked at ERCP training and outcomes and shows that the more rigorously you define …
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