Carolina Ogawa Matsubayashi, MD, Graduate Student, Weill Cornell Medicine Endoscopy, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, offers advice to new reviewers after participating in GIE’s Reviewer Mentorship Program. What 3 steps do you take as soon as you get invited to review? The first thing I do is check …
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My one and only eye (still the one)
Post written by Jacobo Dib Jr., MD, FASGE, from Hospital “Dr. Jesús Yerena” de Lidice, Caracas, Venezuela. I felt the need to share with the rest of the world the conditions in which we perform endoscopy at a public setting in my country, Venezuela. I am sure that colleagues from many other countries will find …
Trends in performance of ERCP among patients with surgically unresectable pancreatic cancer
Post written by Patrick Yachimski, MD, MPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. This study was conducted to assess whether there has been a change over time in the use of ERCP among patients with surgically unresectable pancreas cancer, and if so, if there was any …
Guidance for setting easy-to-adopt competence criteria for optical diagnosis of diminutive colorectal polyps: a simulation approach
Post written by Britt B.S.L. Houwen, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Implementation of the optical diagnosis strategy for diminutive colorectal polyps by endoscopists and computer-aided diagnosis (CADx) systems is hampered as the current competence criteria [PIVI] are impractical …
Transpapillary gallbladder stent placement for long-term therapy of acute cholecystitis
Post written by Andrew C. Storm, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Acute cholecystitis (AC) is a common disease, and while gallbladder removal surgery is one of the most commonly performed operations, some patients are not candidates for surgery. Left untreated, patients with AC can develop gangrene and gallbladder perforation, …
Artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of gastric precancerous conditions by image-enhanced endoscopy
Post written by Honggang Yu, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, the Key Laboratory of Hubei Province for Digestive System Disease, and the Hubei Provincial Clinical Research Center for Digestive Disease Minimally Invasive Incision, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. In this study, we conducted a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system to detect …
Cholangioscopy in primary sclerosing cholangitis
Post written by Sooraj Tejaswi, MD, MSPH, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California. This is a case series of 5 patients, demonstrating several unique and varied benign features of PSC. We describe a novel phenotypic classification of benign features, whereby we categorize findings into …
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Efficacy and histologic accuracy of underwater versus conventional endoscopic mucosal resection for large (>20 mm) colorectal polyps
Post written by Saurabh Chandan, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Hepatology, CHI Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Underwater endoscopic mucosal resection (U-EMR) is a simple and easy-to-learn technique for resection of colorectal lesions. It eliminates the need of using submucosal injection to “lift” the lesion prior to resection. The main aim of our …
Disposable digital percutaneous cholangioscope-aided retrieval of a plastic biliary stent after failed retrieval at ERCP
Post written by Sooraj Tejaswi, MD, MSPH, from the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, California. We describe the collaborative effort of the use of the novel short cholangioscope-aided percutaneous retrieval of a plastic biliary stent after being unable to retrieve the stent during ERCP. The patient was …
Evaluating the impact of frailty on periprocedural adverse events and mortality among patients with GI bleeding
Post written by Camilo J. Acosta, MD David Goldberg, MD Sunil Amin, MD, MPH, from the Department of Medicine, University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida, USA and Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA. Frailty is common and has been extensively studied as a …