Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty using mixed-tooth grasping forceps as an alternative to the tissue helix

Post written by Chase Wooley, BS, from True You Weight Loss, Cary, North Carolina, USA. In this video case, we demonstrate the advantages of using a mixed-tooth grasping forceps rather than the traditional tissue helix to acquire full-thickness gastric folds during the endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) procedure. A customized animation highlights the risk of transmural tissue …

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Linitis plastica: a harbinger of an unusual cause of gastric wall thickening

Post written by Debdeep Banerjee, Saikiran Raghavapuram, and Benjamin Tharian from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the School of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. In this video submission, we describe a woman with a past history of breast cancer who had undergone mastectomy …

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