The best of artificial intelligence in 2024

Post written by Michael B. Wallace, MD, MPH, GIE Editor Emeritus from the Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. This was an invited review article commissioned by the GIE Editorial Board to recap major advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) over the past year. AI is moving so rapidly in many fields, including …

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Creation of new anastomosis for management of obstructive symptoms related to gastrojejunal anastomosis in patients who undergo gastric bypass: a case series

Post written by Shailendra Singh, MD, and Rohit Agrawal, MD, from West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. We present a case series of 6 patients with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass who were referred for management of obstructive symptoms related to gastrojejunal (GJ) anastomosis. Our patients had failed pneumatic dilations and/or endoscopic stent therapy for severe refractory GJ stenosis with …

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Unexpected clipping failure of a full-thickness resection device during endoscopic full-thickness resection

Post written by Yasutoshi Shiratori, MD, MPH, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Division of Gastroenterology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR) using a full-thickness resection device (FTRD; Ovesco Endoscopy AG, Tübingen, Germany) has become a valuable technique for managing nonlifting colonic lesions, such as residual polyps after EMR, with reported high …

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Risk of stricture after endoscopic submucosal dissection in the cervical esophagus and efficacy of local steroid injection for stricture prevention (with video)

Post written by Yoshiaki Ando, MD, Minoru Kato, MD, and Ryu Ishihara, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan. Several studies have reported a high incidence of stricture after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in the cervical esophagus. However, the detailed clinical features have not been elucidated. We therefore analyzed 100 patients who underwent ESD for …

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The best of colonoscopy in 2024

Post written by David L. Diehl, MD, FASGE, from the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA. It was a fun but challenging task to pick the top articles on colonoscopy published in 2024. The fun part was seeing how the very …

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Handmade snare-assisted endoscope tip-bending angulation booster

Post written by Marc Julius H. Navarro, MD, from the Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, the Institute of Digestive and Liver Diseases, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, and the Department of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Makati Medical Center, Makati, Philippines. Endoscopic interventions require precise control of the endoscope tip. Inadequate …

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Editor’s Choice: Magnetic compression anastomosis for the treatment of complete biliary obstruction after cholecystectomy

GIE Associate Editor Monique Barakat, MD, highlights this article from the December issue: “Magnetic compression anastomosis for the treatment of complete biliary obstruction after cholecystectomy” by Sung Ill Jang, MD, PhD, et al. Post-cholecystectomy biliary strictures are generally managed endoscopically. However, when complete occlusion of the duct occurs, management with entirely endoscopic approaches is not possible. This study describes …

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Top tips for pneumatic dilation of the lower esophageal sphincter (with video)

Post written by David L. Diehl, MD, FASGE, AGAF, FACP, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, USA. Although pneumatic dilation (PD) of the lower esophageal sphincter has had a long—and successful—history of use in the management of achalasia and related disorders, the advent of peroral endoscopic …

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Pancreas and biliary ablation devices

Post written by Dennis Chen, MD, from the Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. This Technology Status Evaluation Report evaluates the available ablative therapy devices for pancreatic and biliary ductal conditions and reviews the devices, techniques, indications, efficacy, and safety profiles of the existing technology. Ablative therapies have been increasingly used …

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TeXture and color enhancement Imaging-assisted precutting: 3 case reports

Post written by Atsushi Saito, MD, Shugo Fujibayashi, MD, PhD, Tamaki Momoi, MD, and Tsuneshi Fujii, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Japanese Red Cross Asahikawa Hospital, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan. We discussed 3 cases of successful biliary cannulation using precutting with TeXture and color enhancement Imaging (TXI) in patients with obstructive jaundice caused by pancreatic head cancer. In all 3 cases, the …

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