Stephen Kim, MD, a third year GI fellow at the UCLA Medical Center and current co-editor of the Fellows’ Corner, provides an abbreviated history of the Fellows’ Corner column. In January 2005, the first Fellows’ Corner column was published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy while under the direction of Editor-in-Chief, George Triadafilopoulos, MD. From the onset, the …
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Improving palatability of bowel prep
Ala Sharara, MD, from the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon shares some insights about his Original Article "Sugar-free mentholyptus drops improve the palatability and bowel cleansing effect of PEG-Electrolyte solution" from the December issue. Colon preparations are generally poorly tolerated and, consequently, serve as an impediment to colorectal cancer screening and …
Editor’s Choice- Results of Tokyo Trial of Prevention of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis
Associate Editor Jacques Devière, MD, PhD, recommends this article from the December issue "Results of the Tokyo Trial of Prevention of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis with Risperidone-2: a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial" by Rie Uchino, MD, PhD, Hiroyuki Isayama, MD, PhD, Takeshi Tsujino, MD, PhD, Naoki Sasahira, MD, PhD, Yukiko Ito, MD, PhD, Saburo Matsubara, MD, …
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ORCID—Connecting Research to Researchers
Authors who have submitted papers recently to GIE may have noticed something new—a prompt to register for an ORCID identifier. Founded in 2010, ORCID is a non-profit organization developing an open registry of unique personal identifiers for researchers and scholars. ORCID identifiers, a unique 16-digit number, connect researchers and scholars with their contributions and published …
Novel EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy technique
Takao Itoi, MD, PhD, FASGE from the Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan discusses his article "Novel EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy technique using a new double-balloon enteric tube and lumen-apposing metal stent (with videos)" from the New Methods section of the December issue. Advanced gastric, duodenal, and peri-pancreatic cancers can show gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) at the …
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Meet the Fellows’ Corner Editor– Stephen Kim
Get to know the GIE Fellows’ Corner Editor, Stephen Kim, MD, from the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Endoscopedia: What area of GI would you like to focus on after fellowship? SK: Pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cysts Endoscopedia: How did you get involved with the Journal’s Fellows’ Corner? SK: As a fourth year medical …
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Rendezvous versus direct transluminal techniques for malignant biliary obstruction
Payal Saxena, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland writes about her Original Article titled "EUS-guided biliary drainage by using a standardized approach for malignant biliary obstruction: rendezvous versus direct transluminal techniques (with videos)" from the November issue. The aim of this study was to assess outcomes of EUS-guided biliary drainage (EGBD) performed using …
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EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy to treat gastric varices
The authors share some insights about their Original Article "EUS-guided coil versus cyanoacrylate therapy for the treatment of gastric varices: a multicenter study (with videos)" from the November issue. Authors of this paper include Rafael Romero-Castro, MD, PhD,* Mark Ellrichmann, MD,* Carlos Ortiz-Moyano, MD, PhD, Jose Carlos Subtil-Inigo, MD, PhD, Felix Junquera-Florez, MD, Joan B. …
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Meet the Editor- John Vargo
Meet another member of our Editorial Team John Vargo, MD, MPH, FASGE who joins us from the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Endoscopedia: What are your GI areas of focus? JV: Therapeutic Endoscopy, Research, Education and Administration Endoscopedia: What is your favorite part about working on the Journal? JV: The GIE team is such a …
Aberrant innermost longitudinal muscle bundles at the esophagogastric junction during POEM
Nikolas Eleftheriadis, MD, and colleagues from the Digestive Disease Center at Showa University Northern Yokohama in Japan present this video case of an in vivo observation of aberrant innermost longitudinal muscle bundles in front of the circular muscle layer at the level of esophagogastric junction during peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM). In this video case, we …
