Post written by Mehul Lamba, FRACP, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Herston, Queensland, Australia. Capsule endoscopy (CE) is an investigation of choice for the assessment of suspected small intestinal bleeding. Because CE lacks the ability to wash or suction intestinal contents, diagnostic utility is reliant on adequate small-bowel preparation. …
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Aerosol and droplet generation in upper and lower GI endoscopy: whole procedure and event-based analysis
Post written by Adolfo Parra-Blanco, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, and Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, and George S.D. Gordon, PhD, from the Optics and Photonics Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. The aim of this prospective study …
Submucosal tunneling endoscopic septum division for esophageal diverticulum with a median follow-up of 39 months: a multicenter cohort study
Post written by Ping-Hong Zhou, MD, FASGE, from the Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, and Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Endoscopy, Shanghai, China. In this study, we primarily focused on the safety and efficacy of submucosal tunneling endoscopic septum division (STESD) for patients with esophageal diverticulum and STESD’s impact on patients’ …
Improving diagnostic accuracy and appropriate indications for surgery in pancreatic cystic neoplasms: the role of EUS
Post written by Stefano Crippa, MD, PhD, from the Division of Pancreatic Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, and Vita Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy, Fabio Giannone, MD, from the Division of Pancreatic Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, and the Department of General, Digestive and Endocrine Surgery, University Hospital of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, and …
Top tips for endoscopic drainage and debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (with videos)
Post written by Douglas G. Adler, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE, Director of the Center for Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CATE), Porter Adventist Hospital, PEAK Gastroenterology, Centura Health, Denver, Colorado, USA. This Top Tips article is designed to give readers a lot of really useful and practical information in a very short amount of text. Access, drainage, and …
Effectiveness of prophylactic clipping in preventing postpolypectomy bleeding in oral anticoagulant users: a propensity-score analysis
Post written by Louis H.S. Lau, MBChB, and Raymond S.Y. Tang, MD, from the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics and the Institute of Digestive Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The focus of this study was to examine the benefit of prophylactic clipping after colonoscopic polypectomy in high-risk patients using oral anticoagulants. Postpolypectomy …
Pre-endoscopy coronavirus disease 2019 screening and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 nucleic acid amplification testing in the Veterans Affairs healthcare system: clinical practice patterns, outcomes, and relationship to procedure volume
Post written by Andrew J. Gawron, MD, PhD, from the National Gastroenterology and Hepatology Program, Office of Specialty Care Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC, USA, VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, and the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. …
Evolution and evidence-based adaptations in techniques for peroral endoscopic myotomy for achalasia
Post written by Eric E. Low, MD, MPH, and Rena Yadlapati, MD, MSHS, from the Division of Gastroenterology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Achalasia is the most well-characterized esophageal motility disorder largely because of evolving diagnostic tools and physiologic research that have been developed over the last 2 decades. With the …
Polyps seen but not removed during index colonoscopy: an underestimated inefficiency in endoscopy practice
Post written by Krish Ragunath, MD, from the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. The aim of this study was to evaluate the practice of nonremoval of polyps at index endoscopy and to try and elucidate the potential reasons for this practice. When small …
Artificial intelligence for disease diagnosis: the criterion standard challenge
Post written by Yuichi Mori, MD, PhD, from the Clinical Effectiveness Research Group, University of Oslo, and the Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, and the Digestive Disease Center, Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital, Yokohama, Japan. The primary aim of this study was to focus attention on the major challenges that computer-aided …
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