Editor’s Choice: Impact of difficult biliary cannulation on post-ERCP pancreatitis: secondary analysis of the stent versus indomethacin trial dataset

GIE Associate Editor Shivangi T. Kothari, MD, FACG, FASGE, highlights this article from the March issue: “Impact of difficult biliary cannulation on post-ERCP pancreatitis: secondary analysis of the stent versus indomethacin trial dataset” by Samuel Han, MD, MS, et al. Post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) remains one of the most unpredictable, humbling, and challenging adverse events of ERCP. This study highlights …

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Impact of difficult biliary cannulation on post-ERCP pancreatitis: secondary analysis of the stent versus indomethacin trial dataset

Post written by Georgios Papachristou, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA. This was a secondary data analysis of the stent versus indomethacin (SVI) trial, a recently completed, National Institutes of Health—funded, multicenter, randomized controlled trial including 20 centers in the United States …

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Top tips for diagnostic rectal EUS and assessment of rectal sphincters

Post written by Zubin Dev Sharma, MD, DNB, from Interventional Gastroenterology, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram, India. This article provides best practice tips for using rectal EUS for diagnostic assessment in various conditions as well as assessment of anal sphincters. Rectal EUS, underutilized for assessment of rectal conditions, has emerged as a reliable tool. It can be …

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Optimal visual gaze pattern of endoscopists for improving adenoma detection during colonoscopy (with video)

Post written by Fumiaki Ishibashi, MD, PhD, from the International University of Health and Welfare Ichikawa Hospital, Chiba, Japan. Specific visual gaze pattern (VGP) during colonoscopy is assumed to be related to high colorectal adenoma detection. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluated the optimal VGP that enabled the highest adenoma detection. We developed an eye-tracking and feedback …

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Role of endoscopy in pregnancy: a review

Post written by Hadie Razjouyan, MD, MPH, and GIE Senior Associate Editor Jennifer L. Maranki, MD, MSc, FASGE, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. The focus of our study was the role, considerations, and safety of endoscopy in pregnant patients. Gastroenterologists are frequently consulted in the care of pregnant patients who present …

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Comparative effectiveness of balloons, adjustable balloons, and endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty: a network meta-analysis of randomized trials

Post written by Vitor Brunaldi, MD, MSc, PhD, from Hospital de Amor, Barretos Cancer Center, Barretos, Ribeirao Preto Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. We aimed to generate head-to-head comparisons among different endoscopic bariatric therapies (EBTs) available in the United …

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Top tips for magnifying endoscopy in the esophagus and stomach (with videos)

Post written by GIE Associate Editor Seiichiro Abe, MD, PhD, FASGE, FJGES, from the Endoscopy Division, National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Virtual chromoendoscopy has been used for diagnosing upper GI neoplasms. In particular, magnifying virtual chromoendoscopy using narrow-band imaging and blue-light imaging has been reported to be useful for lesion characterization and margin delineation of GI …

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Endoscopic diagnosis and management of adult inflammatory bowel disease: a consensus document from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy IBD Endoscopy Consensus Panel

Post written by Bo Shen, MD, FASGE, from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA. Endoscopy plays a key role in diagnosis, assessment of disease activity and treatment response, postoperative disease monitoring, dysplasia surveillance, and delivery of therapy. Ileocolonoscopy (occasionally with upper endoscopy or enteroscopy) establishes the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease (CD) …

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Application of endoscopic purse-string sutures in refractory nonvariceal GI bleeding: a multicenter study (with video)

Post written by Feifan Chen, MD, Yifan Jia, MD, and Xue Xiao, MD, PhD, from West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. We retrospectively collected data from 3 hospitals from patients who underwent endoscopic hemostasis for nonvariceal GI bleeding (GIB). Overall, 36 refractory bleeding patients received endoscopic purse-string sutures (PSSs), and 83.3% of them achieved clinical success. In refractory upper …

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EUS for the evaluation of esophageal injury after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

Post written by Andrew Storm, MD, from Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Every procedural specialty in medicine has procedure-related issues that might “keep them up at night.” In therapeutic EUS, for example, the short time after a particularly challenging novel anastomosis creation procedure between the gallbladder and duodenum, liver and stomach, or intestine and stomach can …

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