Post written by Melissa Martinez, MD, MBA, FASGE, from Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois, USA. This Best of Series article focuses on the most impactful publication topics regarding colonoscopy, periprocedural management, and resection of colonic neoplasia. This year, many great publications continue to contribute to the wealth of knowledge and evolvement of colonoscopy. Some of these were …
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Management of an inadvertent insertion of a biliary plastic stent into the portal vein: a dreaded ERCP adverse event
Post written by Rashid Abdel-Razeq, MD, and Hassan Siddiki, MD, MS, MEd, from Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. This article describes a case of an inadvertent biliary stent insertion into the portal vein. A multidisciplinary hybrid endoscopic and percutaneous approach successfully removed the stent and closed the biliovascular fistula without surgical intervention. It was important to showcase this video …
Revisiting the starting age of colorectal cancer screening for the average-risk Asian population: a cost-effectiveness analysis
Post written by Martin C.S. Wong, MD, and Junjie Huang, PhD, from The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. The incidence and mortality of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) have been increasing in many parts of the world. The American Cancer Society and the U.S. …
A station-wise approach to liver anatomy for linear EUS
Post written by Dario Ligresti, MD, from the Digestive Endoscopy Service, Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Services, IRCCS-ISMETT, Palermo, Italy, and Radhika Chavan, MD, DNB, FISG, FASGE, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy, Bharati Vidyapeeth Medical College, Pune, India. Our video demonstrates a structured, station-wise approach for identifying liver anatomy during linear EUS. Liver segments are described from …
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Predicting the need for step-up after EUS-guided drainage of peripancreatic fluid collections, including Quadrant-Necrosis-Infection score validation: a prospective cohort study
Post written by Giuseppe Vanella, MD, PhD, from San Raffaele Hospital, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. When dealing with symptomatic or infected peripancreatic fluid collections (PFCs), EUS-guided drainage has become the standard of care. In about one-half of cases, drainage alone will be enough to solve the issue. Yet, a fraction of patients will require further …
Cap-suction pseudopolyp formation during underwater mucosal resection for intra-appendiceal lesions
Post written by Laura Gutiérrez-Rios, MD, Raquel Muñoz-González, MD, and Hugo Uchima, MD, PhD, from the Endoscopy Unit, Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain. This video case series demonstrates the feasibility of cap-suction pseudopolyp formation during underwater EMR for en bloc resection of intra-appendiceal lesions. Two patients without prior appendectomy were successfully treated using a colonoscope fitted with …
Risk of post–endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis due to placement of biliary self-expandable metal stents: a single-center retrospective study
Post written by Bashar Qumseya, MD, MPH, FASGE, from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. This study focuses on the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) in patients who receive self-expandable metal stents (SEMSs) compared with plastic biliary stents at the time of ERCP. We observed several patients who underwent PEP with seemingly no other …
Endoscopic repair of Strasberg type D bile duct injury following laparoscopic cholecystectomy: an unconventional approach
Post written by Ahmad Abdulraheem, MD, and Angela Koomson, MD, from the Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown Washington Hospital Center, and Abdalla Khouqeer, MD, Ahmad Al-Dwairy, MD, and Walid Chalhoub, MD, from the Gastroenterology Section, Department of Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, USA. The video describes a case of severe bile duct injury managed solely with ERCP. The patient presented with acute cholecystitis due to …
Endoscopic submucosal dissection of a gastric adenocarcinoma of fundic-gland type
Post written by Lady Katherine Mejia Perez, MD, and Kyungran Justina Cho, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Erica Savage, MD, from the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, and Amit Bhatt, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. We describe a unique case of a large well-differentiated gastric …
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Endoscopic management of active arterial bleeding in walled-off necrosis collection
Post written by Matthew Eganhouse, MD, and Ajaypal Singh, MD, from the Division of Digestive Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. In our recently published video case, we describe, to our knowledge, the first time endoscopic hemostasis was achieved from active arterial bleeding within a walled-off necrosis (WON) cavity. Our patient, a 45-year-old woman, initially underwent EUS-guided cystgastrostomy …
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