Post written by Hamzah Abu-Sbeih, MD, and Yinghong Wang, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. The purpose of this study was to assess the safety of endoscopic procedures in patients with underlying thrombocytopenia or neutropenia …
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Post written by Asif Khalid, MD, from the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh HealthCare System, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Gastroenterologists will don a gown and gloves prior to performing GI endoscopy almost as a reflex, but the use of a face shield is not considered standard practice. This is in spite …
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Post written by Zachary L. Smith, DO, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA. The focus of this study was to evaluate the use of general endotracheal anesthesia (GEA) versus monitored anesthesia care (MAC) during ERCP in high-risk patients. Historically, our institution sedated the vast majority of patients …
Post written by Bilal Toka, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya, Turkey. Mechanical and thermal endoscopic methods are the most commonly used methods for the treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. The hemostatic clip is one of the most common mechanical methods used. Monopolar hemostatic forceps soft coagulation (MHFSC) is …
Post written by Amrit K. Kamboj, MD, and Cadman L. Leggett, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Volumetric laser endomicroscopy (VLE) is an advanced imaging modality that uses optical coherence tomography to capture real-time, high-resolution, cross-sectional images of the esophagus. Epithelial glands are …
Post written by Lawrence Hookey, MD, from the Hotel Dieu Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This study is the largest to prospectively evaluate the hemostatic powder TC-325 in lower GI bleeding. We included 50 patients with bleeding from different sources, and performed extensive efficacy and safety follow-up. TC-325 is a newer product (having just received regulatory …
GIE Associate Editor, Dr. Sharmila Anandasabapathy, highlights this article from the April issue “A randomized controlled trial evaluating general endotracheal anesthesia versus monitored anesthesia care and the incidence of sedation-related adverse events during ERCP in high-risk patients” by Zachary L. Smith, DO, et al. This is one of the few studies which compare, via a randomized …
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Post written by Ping-Hong Zhou, MD, PhD, from the Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. We aimed to explore the characteristics, predictors, and management approaches of intraprocedural mucosal injury. As the mucosal flap is the only barrier between the mediastinum and esophageal lumen during per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), mucosal …
Post written by Vivek Kumbhari, MD, and Lea Fayad, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Our study compared 2 weight-loss procedures, the commonly performed laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and the newly introduced, minimally invasive endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG). The LSG has excellent weight-loss outcomes but, as an elective …
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Post written by Tae Hoon Lee, MD, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, SoonChunHyang University School of Medicine, Cheonan, Korea. EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration/biopsy (EUS-FNA/B) has a high diagnostic accuracy for pancreatic tumors. However, the ability of various FNA/B techniques to obtain an adequate mass of cells or tissue has rarely been investigated, especially in …
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