Sundeep Lakhtakia, DM, from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology in Hyderabad, India discusses this New Methods article "EUS-guided radiofrequency ablation for management of pancreatic insulinoma by using a novel needle electrode (with videos)." Insulinomas are one of the most common functional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Surgical removal is the standard of care. However, patients who are …
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Martha B. Pitman, MD, from the Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA discusses this Original Article "Impact of next-generation sequencing on the clinical diagnosis of pancreatic cysts." This study assesses the impact of testing pancreatic cyst fluid for genetic mutations on the clinical impression of cyst etiology based …
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Yun Nah Lee, MD, and colleagues from the Digestive Disease Center and Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, SoonChunHyang University School of Medicine, in Bucheon and Seoul, Korea discuss this New Methods article "A newly modified access balloon catheter for direct peroral cholangioscopy by using an ultraslim upper endoscope (with videos)." Direct peroral cholangioscopy (POC) …
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Madhusudhan R. Sanaka, MD, FASGE, FACG, from the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, USA describes this Original Article, "Adenoma detection rate in high-risk patients differs from that in average-risk patients." The focus of this study was to determine and compare adenoma detection rates (ADRs) in high-risk versus average-risk individuals undergoing colonoscopy at …
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Ruben D. Acosta, MD, from the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Fort Belvoir, Virgina, USA, discusses this update to an ASGE document, “The management of antithrombotic agents for patients undergoing GI endoscopy.” The focus of this guideline is the safe and effective use of antithrombotic medications, to include antiplatelets and anticoagulants, in the periendoscopic period. …
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Senior Associate Editor, Lauren B. Gerson MD, MSc, FASGE, recommends this article from the January issue: "The esophageal biopsy “pull” sign: a highly specific and treatment-responsive endoscopic finding in eosinophilic esophagitis (with video)" by Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH, Jessica H. Gebhart, MSHS, Leana L. Higgins, MS, et al. The diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) …
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Tae Il Kim, MD, PhD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, in Seoul, Korea discusses this Original Article "High-risk metachronous polyps are more frequent in patients with traditional serrated adenomas than in patients with conventional adenomas: a multicenter prospective study." Conventional adenomas (CAs) are major precursor lesions of colorectal cancer …
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Sun-Chuan Dai, MD, from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA presents this VideoGIE "Intragastric balloons: an introduction and removal technique for the endoscopist." This is a video presentation of a 40-year-old female who had requested removal of an intragastric weight-loss balloon that had been placed 2 months to her presentation. …
Joseph A. Picoraro, MD, from the Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Medical Center, in New York, New York, USA discusses this Original Article, "Gastrojejunal tube placement through an established gastrostomy via an endoscopic transgastric approach in a pediatric population." The focus of our study was to analyze the advantages and challenges of an innovative and …
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Benjamin Tharian, MD, MRCP, FRACP, from the Centre for Interventional Endoscopy, Florida Hospital, in Orlando, Florida, USA presents this VideoGIE case, "Successful removal of a foreign body from a gallbladder remnant by using a new single-operator digital cholangioscope." A 34-year-old female with a history of an incomplete laparoscopic cholecystectomy developed right upper quadrant pain and …
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