Venkata Sandeep Akshintala, MD from Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions discusses his Original Article "A comparative evaluation of outcomes of endoscopic versus percutaneous drainage for symptomatic pancreatic pseudocysts" from the June issue. The focus of this study is to compare the outcomes of Endoscopic Drainage (ED) and Percutaneous Drainage (PD) for symptomatic pseudocysts. Symptomatic pseudocysts can …
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ASGE Standards of Practice Committee member Shabana F. Pasha, MD discusses the newest ASGE guideline: "The role of endoscopy in the patient with lower GI bleeding." This guideline is a product of the ASGE Standards of Practice Committee. It provides a summary of the existing literature on the different etiologies, classification, and clinical presentation of …
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iThenticate, CrossCheck, EES…How do they fit into the GIE picture? The GIE online submission system, EES (Elsevier Editorial System), now automatically runs every submitted article through CrossCheck. CrossCheck is powered by iThenticate originality detection software, so for those of us who use EES, CrossCheck can be thought of as a very handy version of iThenticate. …
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Nikolas Eleftheriadis, MD from the Digestive Disease Center at Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital in Japan shares this video case "Acetic acid spray enhances accuracy of narrow-band imaging (NBI) magnifying endoscopy for endoscopic tissue characterization of early gastric cancer." In this video case we demonstrated a novel endoscopic technique using acetic acid chromoendoscopy in combination …
Catharine M. Walsh, MD, MEd, FRCPC from The Hospital for Sick Children and the Wilson Centre for Research in Education at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada discusses her Original Article "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Competency Assessment Tool: development of a procedure-specific assessment tool for colonoscopy." The main purpose of this study was to develop and …
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Congratulations to this year's Reviewer Award Winners! Thirty-five GIE reviewers were recognized for their superior contributions to GIE, both through completing high numbers of reviews and for submitting the highest quality of work. Thank you for donating your time and energy to the peer-review process. Your efforts help to make GIE a success. This year's winners …
Patrick Yachimski, MD, MPH from Vanderbilt University Medical Center presents this VideoGIE article titled "Endoscopic resection of an ampullary gangliocytic paraganglioma." This video case depicts endoscopic examination and resection of a subepithelial ampullary lesion, histopathologically identified following resection as a gangliocytic paraganglioma. This case represents an unusual ampullary neoplasm. While most neoplasms resected in the …
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Associate Editor Dr. Klaus Mergener highlights this article from the May issue: "Patient compliance and suboptimal bowel preparation with split-dose bowel regimen in average-risk screening colonoscopy" by Stacy B. Menees, MD, MS, H. Myra Kim, ScD, Patricia Wren, PhD, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, PhD, Grace H. Elta, MD, Stephanie Foster, MPH, Sheryl Korsnes, MA, Brittany Graustein, …
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Many activities related to GIE took place during Digestive Disease Week this year in Chicago. Twenty-one author interviews were taped on Monday. New author interviews filmed at DDW will be featured in upcoming issues of the Journal. Thank you to all of our interviewers and authors who participated! GIE Associate Editors met for a …
Brian S. Lim, MD, MCR from Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center at the University of California Riverside School of Medicine presents this video case titled "Over-the-scope clip for closure of persistent post-esophagectomy gastric conduit fistula." A 69-year-old man had an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy for esophageal carcinoma. On postoperative day 6, the patient developed severe chest pain; CT …
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