Novel articulating through-the-scope traction device

Post written by Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD, Director, Endoscopic Tissue Resection Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Current techniques and devices for traction in endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) own inherent limitations such as technical complexity, lack of adjustability, or demanding preparation. Recently, a single-operator, through-the-scope, articulating …

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Endoscopic submucosal dissection of a symptomatic giant colonic lipoma: technical tips for resection and specimen retrieval

Post written by Sukit Pattarajierapan, MD, from the Surgical Endoscopy Colorectal Division, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Our video presents a case of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of a symptomatic giant colonic lipoma that was challenging during both resection and specimen retrieval. A 59-year-old man without comorbidities presented to our …

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Performance of perioperative antibiotics against post–endoscopic submucosal dissection coagulation syndrome: a multicenter randomized controlled trial

Post written by Yoji Takeuchi, MD, FJGES, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan. Post—endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) coagulation syndrome (PECS) sometimes occurs after colorectal ESD and leads to extended hospitalization. Although the efficacy of perioperative antibiotics preventing PECS had been uncertain, perioperative antibiotics had been used to prevent PECS …

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Endoscopic submucosal dissection by using a new traction device

Post written by Masami Omae, MD, from the Division of Medicine, Department of Upper Gastrointestinal Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. We report a case of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) using a new off-the-shelf traction device that is easy to deploy and enables easier access to the submucosa during ESD. Several devices …

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Successful ESD for a tumor located completely within a colonic diverticulum after inversion of the diverticulum using a traction device

Post written by Takashi Muramoto, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. We presented endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for a tumor located completely within a colonic diverticulum using a traction device in the video. The lesion was a flat-elevated tumor completely located within a colonic diverticulum in the …

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Esophageal ESD on postendoscopic variceal ligation scars with injection under red dichromatic imaging

Post written by Kurato Miyazaki, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, and the Division of Research and Development for Minimally Invasive Treatment, Cancer Center, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. Red dichromatic imaging (RDI) is a recently developed novel image-enhanced endoscopy that enables one to visualize blood vessels …

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Freestyle endoscopic submucosal dissection using a multifunctional snare

Post written by Jun Arimoto, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Omori Red Cross Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. A novel multifunctional snare (SOUTEN; Kaneka Medics, Tokyo, Japan) was introduced to enable successful hybrid ESD procedures. Although this multifunctional snare was introduced for hybrid ESD, hybrid ESD involves partial submucosal dissection, and we have previously reported …

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An effective method for removing surgical staples during endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer on the suture line of remnant stomach

Post written by Yugo Suzuki, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. This is the first report to show the utility and feasibility of removing surgical staples during endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for residual gastric cancer in the remnant stomach. The surgical staples were removed using the Dual Knife, and we electrified …

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Hybrid endoscopic submucosal dissection with novel helix tacking system for defect closure

Post written by Hiroyuki Aihara, MD, PhD, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. This case video demonstrates a hybrid endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) with a novel ESD knife, followed by mucosal defect closure using an innovative endoscopic helix tacking system. A 60-year-old man …

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Endoscopic hemostatic spray for uncontrolled bleeding after complicated endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection

Post written by Kayla M. Hartz, DO, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. These are 2 cases in which hemostatic spray was used as a bail-out method for hemostasis when other standard methods failed. These cases show the value in using a hemostatic spray as …

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