Post written by Sagar Shah, MD, Adarsh Thaker, MD, and Alireza Sedarat, MD, from the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. Our video submission highlights 2 cases of persistent gastrocutaneous fistulas (GCFs) after removal of long-term PEG tubes. In both patients, the fistula tract failed to close spontaneously and led …
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Novel approach to endoluminal antral gastroplasty using a modified gastrostomy tube and laparoscopic stapler
Post written by Mark Hanscom, MD, from Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA. The focus of our study was exploring the feasibility of a novel intraluminal technique for the treatment of obesity. Over the last decade, the field of bariatric endoscopy has continued to grow with the introduction of new technologies and refinement of …
Single-session, transgastric ERCP
Rajeev Attam, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA describes this VideoGIE case "Single-session, transgastric ERCP using sutured gastropexy for treatment of pancreatic duct leak in a patient with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass anatomy and pancreatic divisum." Our video case describes transgastric ERCP in a patient with Roux-en-Y …
ESD through a gastrostomy
Shinji Kitamura, MD, and colleagues from the Department of Gastroenterology and Oncology at the Institute of Health Biosciences at the University of Tokushima Graduate School in Tokushima City, Japan share this video case titled "Endoscopic submucosal dissection through a gastrostomy for early gastric cancer in patients with pharyngeal stenosis." This report describes the safety and …
Introducer-type percutaneous gastrostomy system
Mavrogenis Georgios, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology at the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi in Charleroi, Belgium presents this video demonstration of the introducer-type percutaneous gastrostomy system.This video describes the Pexact gastrostomy system. We made efforts to present in detail all the steps of this procedure. Not all endoscopists are familiarized with this technique. We …
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