Outcomes and quality-of-life assessment after GPOEM

Post written by Parit Mekaroonkamol, MD, Sunil Dacha, MD, and Qiang Cai, MD, PhD, from Emory University School of Medicine. Gastric per-oral endoscopic pyloromyotomy (GPOEM) is an emerging endoscopic procedure for treatment of gastroparesis. Due to its novelty, the existing data on its safety and efficacy is lacking. The purpose of our study was to …

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Gastric endoscopic muscle biopsy

Elizabeth Rajan, MD, FASGE from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, USA describes this New Methods article "Innovative gastric endoscopic muscle biopsy to identify all cell types, including myenteric neurons and interstitial cells of Cajal in patients with idiopathic gastroparesis: a feasibility study (with video)." The pathophysiology of some gastrointestinal neuromuscular diseases …

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