Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, FRCPC from The Hospital for Sick Children and the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada discusses her Original Article "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool: development of a procedure-specific assessment tool for colonoscopy." The main purpose of this study was to develop and …
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Patrick Yachimski, MD, MPH from Vanderbilt University Medical Center presents this VideoGIE article titled "Endoscopic resection of an ampullary gangliocytic paraganglioma." This video case depicts endoscopic examination and resection of a subepithelial ampullary lesion, histopathologically identified following resection as a gangliocytic paraganglioma. This case represents an unusual ampullary neoplasm. While most neoplasms resected in the …
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Associate Editor Dr. Klaus Mergener highlights this article from the May issue: "Patient compliance and suboptimal bowel preparation with split-dose bowel regimen in average-risk screening colonoscopy" by Stacy B. Menees, MD, MS, H. Myra Kim, ScD, Patricia Wren, PhD, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, Grace H. Elta, MD, Stephanie Foster, MPH, Sheryl Korsnes, MA, Brittany Graustein, …
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Brian S. Lim, MD, MCR from Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine presents this video case titled "Over-the-scope clip for closure of persistent post-esophagectomy gastric conduit fistula." A 69-year-old man had an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma. On postoperative day 6, the patient developed severe chest pain; CT …
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Francisco Baldaque-Silva, MD from Centro Hospitalar de São João in Porto, Portugal presents this video case "New transillumination auxiliary technique for peroral endoscopic myotomy." In our experience, one of the most difficult steps of the peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) technique is the achievement of a proper tunnel length that will allow a safe and effective …
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Hiroyoshi Nakanishi, MD from Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital in Ishikawa, Japan reports on his Original Article published recently in GIE titled "Detection of pharyngeal cancer in the overall population undergoing upper GI endoscopy by using narrow-band imaging: a single-center experience, 2009–2012." Narrow-band imaging (NBI) including magnifying endoscopy is very useful for the detection and diagnosis …
Neil B. Marya, MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts discusses his article "Computerized 3-dimensional localization of a video capsule in the abdominal cavity: validation by digital radiography." The main purpose of this study was to test a new radiofrequency capsule localization system in healthy human volunteers. In the absence of …
Associate Editor Jenifer Lightdale, MD, MPH, reports on this month's Editor's Choice: an Original Article titled "A phenotypic analysis shows that eosinophilic esophagitis is a progressive fibrostenotic disease" by Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, Hannah P. Kim, MD, Sarah L. W. Sperry, MD, David A. Rybnicek, MD, John T. Woosley, MD, PhD, and Nicholas J. …
Nana Hayashi, MD from Hiroshima University Hospital in Hiroshima, Japan discusses her Original Article "Predictors of incomplete resection and perforation associated with endoscopic submucosal dissection for colorectal tumors." Predictors of incomplete resection and perforation can include lesion size, growth type, pathological diagnosis, use of hemostatic forceps, degree of fibrosis, history of biopsy, history of local …
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Gauree Gupta Konijeti, MD, MPH from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts discusses his Original Article "Cost-effectiveness analysis of chromoendoscopy for colorectal cancer surveillance in patients with ulcerative colitis" from the March issue.The goal of the study was to examine the cost effectiveness of chromoendoscopy relative to white light endoscopy (WLE) or …
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