Joan B. Gornals, MD, PhD at the Endoscopy Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases at the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-IDIBELL in Barcelona, Spain presents this VideoGIE case, "EUS-guided transesophageal drainage of a mediastinal abscess using a diabolo-shaped lumen-apposing metal stent." In this video, we demonstrate the successful use of a self-expanding metal stent specifically designed for …
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Small-intestinal volvulus after subtotal colectomy
Jennifer M. Kolb from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York shares this video case "Small-intestinal volvulus after subtotal colectomy visualized during colonoscopy." We present an unusual case of a 61-year-old female with chronic intermittent abdominal pain and distension months after laprascopic cholecystectomy and subtotal colectomy with ileosigmoid anastamosis. Colonoscopy revealed …
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Successful removal of intrahepatic bile duct stones
Syed Mujahid Hassan, FCPS and colleagues from the Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Civil Hospital Karachi, in Karachi, Pakistan present this video case "Successful removal of intrahepatic bile duct stones by using a combination of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and direct peroral cholangioscopy." This video demonstrates the successful removal of intrahepatic …
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Chest CT in the management of post-POEM achalasia
Ming-Yan Cai, MD and Ping-Hong Zhou, MD, PhD from the Endoscopy Center at Zhongshan Hospital at Fudan University in Shanghai, China discuss their Original Article "Thoracic CT after peroral endoscopic myotomy for the treatment of achalasia." The focus of this study was to analyze the value of routine postoperative computed tomography (CT) of the chest …
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Debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrosis
Ryan Law, DO from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA presents this video case "Simultaneous transgastric and transcolonic debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrosis." Our video demonstrates concomitant transgastric and transcolonic debridement of pancreatic necrosis in a patient 4 weeks after an episode of severe acute pancreatitis with …
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Narrow-band imaging of intestinal lymphomas
Mikihiro Fujiya, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology at Asahikawa Medical University in Asahikawa, Japan discusses this Original Article "Decreased numbers of vascular networks and irregular vessels on narrow-band imaging are useful findings for distinguishing intestinal lymphoma from lymphoid hyperplasia." In this study, we focused on the endoscopic features of intestinal malignant lymphoma using narrow-band …
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Cold snare resection of a nonpolypoid lesion >45 mm
Roberto Augusto Barros, MD and María José Monteverde, MD from the Department of Digestive Endoscopy, Ambulatory Gastroenterology Center (CEGA), in Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina share this video case "Cold snare resection of a nonpolypoid lesion >45 mm." We show a a cold snare mucosectomy of a non granular laterally spreading tumor (LST) larger than 45 mm, …
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Confocal laser endomicroscopy
Shailendra Chauhan MD, AGAF, FASGE from the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, USA discusses the latest Status Evaluation Report from the ASGE Technology committee titled "Confocal laser endomicroscopy." This report is a comprehensive review of confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) written by the ASGE Technology Committee. It describes the technology, its current …
Single-step EUS-guided stent puncture and delivery
Anthony Yuen Bun Teoh, FRCSEd (Gen) from the Department of Surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong SAR, China shares this video case from the VideoGIE section "Single-step EUS-guided puncture and delivery of a lumen-apposing stent for gallbladder drainage using a novel cautery-tipped stent delivery system." …
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The 25G EUS-FNA needle
Shyam Varadarajulu, MD from the Center for Interventional Endoscopy at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida, USA discusses his Original Article "The 25G EUS-FNA needle: Good for onsite but poor for offsite evaluation?" When rapid onsite cytology evaluation is not available, cell block is used as a technique for off-site interpretation of endoscopic ultrasound-fine needle aspiration …
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