Mid-gut exploration: video-capsule endoscopy cannot always determine the insertion route of device-assisted enteroscopy

Post written by Michael Fernandez Y Viesca, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology Hepatopancreatology and Digestive Oncology, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium. This video case shows how challenging it can be to choose the correct insertion route (anterograde vs retrograde) before an enteroscopy based on video-capsule time index landmarks. Indeed, these time indexes are not always reliable …

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Enteroscopy

Shailendra Chauhan, MD, AGAF, FASGE, from the University of Florida College of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutriton in Gainesville, Florida, USA discusses this ASGE Technology committee document, "Enteroscopy." This document is an update to a previous ASGE Technology committee document titled "Enteroscopes." This document is a comprehensive technical review of currently available enteroscopy …

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