Reem Z. Sharaiha, MD, MSc, from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York, USA, describes this Original Article, "Metal versus plastic for pancreatic pseudocyst drainage: clinical outcomes and success." Our aim was to compare fully covered self-expanding metal stents (FCSEMSs) to plastic stents for endoscopic drainage of pancreatic pseudocyst drainage in terms of …
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Amy Tyberg, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weil Cornell Medical College, Cornell University in New York, New York, USA shares this VideoGIE case "Endoscopic management of a GI perforation." This case describes a 55-year-old woman with Roux-en-Y anatomy who developed a full-thickness jejunal perforation during an endoscopic procedure. This adverse event …
Yutaka Saito, MD, PhD, from the Endoscopy Division at the National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan discusses this Original Article, "Evaluation of the clinical efficacy of colon capsule endoscopy in the detection of lesions of the colon: prospective, multicenter, open study." The aims of this study were to evaluate the sensitivity of colon capsule …
Associate Editor, Prasad G. Iyer, MD, MD, MSc, FASGE, recommends this article from the November issue: "Linear-array EUS improves detection of pancreatic lesions in high-risk individuals: a randomized tandem study." This randomized study reveals intriguing information in the relative yield and miss rates of tandem radial and linear EUS examinations in high risk individuals undergoing …
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Krishnavel V. Chathadi, MD, Director of Endoscopic Services for Gastroenterology, Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Henry Ford Health System, in Detroit, Michigan, USA, discusses this update to an ASGE document, "The role of endoscopy in ampullary and duodenal adenomas." This document focuses on the role of endoscopy in the evaluation and management of sporadic ampullary and duodenal …
Federico Iacopini, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Unit, Ospedale S. Giuseppe—ASL Roma H, Albano L, in Rome, Italy discusses this New Methods article "Curative endoscopic submucosal dissection of large nonpolypoid superficial neoplasms in ulcerative colitis (with videos)." This is the first study evaluating the feasibility and clinical impact of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for …
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Vinay Dhir, MD, FASGE, from the Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences in Mumbai, India discusses this Original Article, "EUS-guided pseudocyst drainage: Prospective evaluation of early removal of fully covered self expandable metal stents with pancreatic ductal stenting in selected patients." The study focused on 2 aspects of pseudocyst drainage (PD). Firstly, whether it is possible …
Vivek Kumbhari, MD from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA shares this VideoGIE case, "EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy for management of complete gastric outlet obstruction." An 86-year-old female presents for management of gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) secondary to locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. An …
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GIE Associate Editor Amit Rastogi, MD, FASGE highlights this Original Article, "Public reporting of colonoscopy quality is associated with an increase in endoscopist adenoma detection rate." This study showed that public reporting of the adenoma detection rate (ADR) of 11 gastroenterologists resulted in significant improvement- 5% overall and 7.8% for screening colonoscopies. Also, a natural …
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Naohisa Yoshida, MD, PhD, from the Department of Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, in Kyoto, Japan discusses this Original Article "Improvement in the visibility of colorectal polyps by using blue laser imaging (with video)." We proved the improvement of polyp visibility by blue laser imaging (BLI) …
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