Post written by Yen-I Chen, MD, MSc, and Ali Bessissow, MD, from McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our video illustrates the use of a novel through-the-scope exchangeable dual-balloon catheter (DUBX, Naja; Chess Medical, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) to assist EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) in malignant gastric outlet obstruction. Our case shows the streamline through-the-scope insertion of …
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Editor’s Choice: EUS-guided gastroenterostomy for management of malignant gastric outlet obstruction: a prospective cohort study with matched comparison with enteral stenting
GIE Senior Associate Editor Jennifer Maranki, MD, MSc, FASGE, highlights this article from the September issue: “EUS-guided gastroenterostomy for management of malignant gastric outlet obstruction: a prospective cohort study with matched comparison with enteral stenting” by Giuseppe Vanella, MD, et al. This is a prospective registry study of patients undergoing EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) for treatment of malignant …
EUS-guided gastroenterostomy for management of malignant gastric outlet obstruction: a prospective cohort study with matched comparison with enteral stenting
Post written by Giuseppe Vanella, MD, from the Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy and Endosonography Division, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy. Our article presents a prospective, single-center experience with EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) for malignant gastric outlet obstruction and a matched comparison with a contemporary prospective cohort treated by enteral stenting. At the study’s onset, prevailing evidence on …
Prospective multicenter assessment of the impact of EUS-guided gastroenterostomy on patient quality of life in unresectable malignant gastric outlet obstruction
Post written by Manuel Pérez-Miranda, MD, PhD, from the Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitario Río Hortega, Valladolid, Spain. Our study focuses on the short-term impact of EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) on quality of life (QoL) in patients with malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO). Available EUS-GE case series rely on the achievement of a full diet or reintervention rates …
EUS-guided gastroenterostomy versus duodenal self-expandable metal stent for malignant gastric outlet obstruction: results from a nationwide multicenter retrospective study (with video)
Post written by Rubén Sánchez-Aldehuelo, MD, from the Unidad de Endoscopia, Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (IRYCIS), Universidad de Alcalá, and Enrique Vázquez-Sequeiros, MD, PhD, from the Unidad de Endoscopia, Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, …
EUS-guided gastroenterostomy assisted by extrinsic abdominal compression to treat gastric obstruction after surgical resection of a GI stromal tumor
Post written by Michael Lajin, MD, from the Sharp Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa, California. EUS-guided gastroenterostomy is increasingly utilized to treat gastric outlet obstruction after surgery. We describe a case of EUS-guided gastroenterostomy facilitated by extrinsic abdominal compression to treat gastric obstruction following surgical resection of a gastrointestinal stromal tumor. A 77-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic resection of …
Percutaneous- and EUS-guided gastroenterostomy for malignant afferent limb syndrome
Post written by Dayyan Adoor, MD, and Zachary L. Smith, DO, from the Department of Internal Medicine and the Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. A 66-year-old woman with poorly-differentiated pancreatic adenocarcinoma underwent a Whipple that was complicated by a biliary leak requiring placement of an internal external …
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