Vishal Ghevariya, MD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Elmhurst, New York shares this video case "Celiac Artery Compression: EUS Evaluation" from the April issue. A 51-year-old man presented for evaluation of abdominal discomfort. The discomfort was epigastric, nonradiating, accompanied by heartburn, and without specific aggravating/alleviating factors. He denied nocturnal/postprandial association …
Tag: gastrointestinal endoscopy
Editor’s Choice- Eosinophilic esophagitis
Associate Editor Jenifer Lightdale, MD, MPH, reports on this month's Editor's Choice: an Original Article titled "A phenotypic analysis shows that eosinophilic esophagitis is a progressive fibrostenotic disease" by Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, Hannah P. Kim, MD, Sarah L. W. Sperry, MD, David A. Rybnicek, MD, John T. Woosley, MD, PhD, and Nicholas J. …
Predictors of incomplete resection and perforation for ESD
Nana Hayashi, MD from Hiroshima University Hospital in Hiroshima, Japan discusses her Original Article "Predictors of incomplete resection and perforation associated with endoscopic submucosal dissection for colorectal tumors." Predictors of incomplete resection and perforation can include lesion size, growth type, pathological diagnosis, use of hemostatic forceps, degree of fibrosis, history of biopsy, history of local …
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Rescue of basket-impacted stone
Takayoshi Tsuchiya, MD, PhD from the Tokyo Medical University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan presents this video case "Rescue of basket-impacted stone by use of electrohydraulic lithotripsy under cholangioscopy (with videos)" from the VideoGIE section. Basket impaction of a bile duct stone is a well-known problem occurring during endoscopic transpapillary lithotripsy. Generally, it is resolved by …
Colorectal cancer surveillance cost-effectiveness analysis
Gauree Gupta Konijeti, MD, MPH from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts discusses his Original Article "Cost-effectiveness analysis of chromoendoscopy for colorectal cancer surveillance in patients with ulcerative colitis" from the March issue.The goal of the study was to examine the cost effectiveness of chromoendoscopy relative to white light endoscopy (WLE) or …
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Safety in the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit
Audrey H. Calderwood, MD from Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and Co-Chair of the Safety in the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit Task-Force, writes about the new ASGE guideline "Guidelines for safety in the gastrointestinal endoscopy unit." This document is a product of the ASGE Ensuring Safety in the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit Task Force. This guideline …
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Outpatient colonic preparation
Mayur Brahmania, MD at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada discusses his original article "2L vs. 4L PEG 3350 + electrolytes for outpatient colonic preparation: a randomized controlled trial" from the March issue. Low volume bowel preparations are ideal to ensure patient compliance, enabling high quality examinations. We examined the bowel-cleansing efficacy and …
Exclude at your peril, lest you regret for greater applicability
Written by Girish Mishra, MD, MS Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. Background: When designing clinical trials, the inclusion and exclusion criteria that are set form the basis of the study population. Sampling and error form the crux of statistical principles. Defining both the …
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Computer-based teaching module for diminutive colon polyps
Amit Rastogi, MD Director of Endoscopy at the Kansas City VA Medical Center and Associate Professor at the University of Kansas, discusses his Original Article "Impact of a computer-based teaching module on characterization of diminutive colon polyps by using narrow-band imaging by non-experts in academic and community practice: a video-based study." The main focus of this …
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Endoscopic removal of obstructing sutures
Jennifer M. Kolb from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York shares this video case "Endoscopic removal of obstructing sutures using argon plasma coagulation" from the VideoGIE section. We present two unusual cases of persistent dysphagia, months after Ivor Lewis esophagectomy for esophageal adenocarcinoma, caused by retained sutures and staples blocking …
