Post written by Xiuli Zuo, MD, PhD, from Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China. The focus of my study includes medical mechatronics, balloon enteroscopy, inflammatory bowel diseases, and early GI cancer diagnosis and endoscopic treatment. It is known that using a conventional endoscope to perform endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is difficult because of the 1-handed …
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VideoGIE now accepting Industry Education articles
VideoGIE has launched a new article type, Industry Education, with the goal of providing vetted educational content about current and upcoming endoscopic technologies. Key features will include tips and tricks showing manufacturer-approved equipment uses and settings. Accepted submissions will be posted on the VideoGIE website, hosted for 1 year with the option to renew, and …
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Endoscopic management of colorectal anastomosis refractory leaks: a journey from conventional to inventive approaches
Post written by iGIE iNTERNATIONAL Associate Editor Diogo Turiani Hourneaux de Moura, MD, MSc, PhD, from the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Division, Hospital Vila Nova Star, Instituto D’Or de Pesquisa e Ensino, and the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit, Gastroenterology Department, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. The goal of …
Migrated lumen-apposing stent trapped within a pancreatic fluid collection: Forward-view EUS for the rescue!
Post written by Pradev Inavolu, MD, DM, Wladyslaw Januszewicz, MD, PhD, and Sundeep Lakhtakia, MD, DM, from AIG Hospitals and Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. We encountered a case of maldeployment of a lumen-apposing mental stent (LAMS) into the pseudocyst cavity with loss of access. Typically, such an adverse event necessitates a surgical intervention …
Novel approach to endoluminal antral gastroplasty using a modified gastrostomy tube and laparoscopic stapler
Post written by Mark Hanscom, MD, from Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA. The focus of our study was exploring the feasibility of a novel intraluminal technique for the treatment of obesity. Over the last decade, the field of bariatric endoscopy has continued to grow with the introduction of new technologies and refinement of …
Diagnostic utility of CT angiography compared with endoscopy in patients with acute GI hemorrhage
Post written by Jason Erno, MD, and Don C. Rockey, MD, from the Digestive Disease Research Core Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. This cohort study examined patients with acute GI bleeding who underwent CT angiography (CTA) and compared its accuracy with that of subsequent endoscopy. CTA has gained great popularity as …
Saline-immersion endoscopic submucosal dissection using pocket-creation method
Post written by Siddharth B. Javia, MD, from Confluence Health, Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, Wenatchee, Washington, USA. This video is about removing a large cecal polyp using an endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) technique. We facilitate this ESD in the cecum by using a combination of pocket-creation method and saline-immersion technique. ESD is a challenging technique to …
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EUS-guided enteroenterostomy to facilitate peroral altered anatomy ERCP
Post written by Romik P. Srivastava, MD, from the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. In our video series, we present 4 cases of patients with non—gastric bypass altered anatomy who required complex ERCP. To facilitate peroral ERCP using a therapeutic gastroscope or duodenoscope, we created an EUS-guided enteroenterostomy in order to shorten …
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EUS-guided coil injection therapy in the management of gastric varices: the first U.S. multicenter experience (with video)
Post written by Ahmad Najdat Bazarbashi, MD, from Washington University in St. Louis School, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The focus of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of EUS-guided coil therapy for the management of gastric varices through a multicenter retrospective collaborative effort in the United States—the first of its kind. There …
Use of inducible and limiting fluorescence in laparoscopic endoscopic cooperative surgery
Post written by Masaya Uesato, MD, PhD, Yoshihiro Kurata, MD, PhD, Yasunori Matsumoto, MD, PhD, Shunsuke Kainuma, MD, Takuya Hirosuna, MD, Ryota Otsuka, MD, PhD, Koichi Hayano, MD, PhD, and Hisahiro Matsubara, MD, PhD, from the Department of Frontier Surgery, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan. We show you a case with a 6-mm-diameter …
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