Post written by GIE Senior Associate Editor David L. Diehl, MD. Dr Michael V. Sivak Jr is one of the giants of endoscopy, not just in the United States, but across the world. He was “in the room where it happened” for many important developments in gastroenterology and endoscopy that have since become routine practice. Dr …
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Post written by Go Endo, MD, and Naminatsu Takahara, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology in Organ Pathophysiology Program, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. A 70-year-old woman developed acute cholangitis and pancreatitis 3 months after hybrid endoscopic papillectomy (EP) of a 25-mm ampullary adenoma. The papillary orifice was completely obstructed by a fibrotic post-EP …
Post written by Giuseppe Vanella, MD, PhD, from the Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy and Endosonography Division, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy. EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) is to date a well-established option for malignant gastric outlet obstruction, and the short-term data are strongly supported by recent randomized evidence. What is usually missing is the long …
Post written by Carlos Robles-Medranda, MD, FASGE, AGAF, from the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Enfermedades Digestivas and Endoscopy Net, Guayaquil, Ecuador. This video presents our early clinical experience with the EndoSound Vision System (Portland, Ore, USA), a compact, portable, disposable EUS probe that clips onto a flexible upper GI endoscope while preserving the working channel. We demonstrate device …
Post written by Ho Seung Lee, MD, Gunn Huh, MD, and Do Hyun Park, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, and the Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. This study evaluated the real-world clinical impact of EUS-guided tissue acquisition in patients with suspected …
Post written by Yoonchan Lee, MD, Tae Jun Song, MD, PhD, and Dong-Wan Seo, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. Simple renal cysts are among the most common incidental findings on abdominal imaging, present in roughly one-half of individuals older than 50 years. Although the vast majority of these …
Post written by Jae Hee Cho, MD, PhD, and Sung Ill Jang, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, and See Young Lee, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South …
Post written by Mayank Goyal, MBBS, from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, and Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and Manik Aggarwal, MBBS, and Ryan Law, DO, from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. This video demonstrates endoscopic management of a complex gastrocolojejunal fistula that developed following EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy (EUS-GJ) in a patient with gastric outlet obstruction secondary to necrotizing pancreatitis. Severe inflammation …
Post written by Charing C.N. Chong, MBChB, from the Department of Surgery, and Raymond S.Y. Tang, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. In this multicenter randomized controlled study, we aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced EUS (CE-EUS) and conventional EUS-guided fine-needle biopsy (FNB) with macroscopic on-site evaluation …
Post written by Sanjeevani Tomar, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, AdventHealth, Abdullah Abbasi, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, and Center for Interventional Endoscopy, AdventHealth, Saurabh Chandan, MD, from Advanced Endoscopy, Houston Methodist West Hospital, Houston, Texas, and Center for Interventional Endoscopy, AdventHealth, and Mustafa A. Arain, MD, from the Center for Interventional …
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