Naresh T. Gunaratnam, MD and Eugene Zolotarevsky, MD from the Department of Gastroenterology, Huron Gastroenterology in Ypsilanti and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA discusses this Original Article "Efficacy and safety of the band and slough technique for endoscopic therapy of nonampullary duodenal adenomas: a case series." Standard endoscopic resection of duodenal adenomas …
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Payal Saxena, MD from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse at RPA in Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia describes this VideoGIE case "EUS-guided biliary drainage with antegrade transpapillary placement of a metal biliary stent." EUS-guided biliary drainage with antegrade transpapillary metallic stent is demonstrated in 2cases of malignant, biliary obstruction. …
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Everson L.A. Artifon, MD, FASGE from the Department of Surgery at the University of Sao Paulo in Sao Paulo, Brazil discusses his Original Article "Hepaticogastrostomy or choledochoduodenostomy for distal malignant biliary obstruction after failed ERCP: Is there any difference?" The study demonstrated that both hepaticogastrostomy (HG) and choledochoduodenostomy (CDT) are feasible to create an EUS-guided fistula …
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Rajeev Attam, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA describes this VideoGIE case "Single-session, transgastric ERCP using sutured gastropexy for treatment of pancreatic duct leak in a patient with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass anatomy and pancreatic divisum." Our video case describes transgastric ERCP in a patient with Roux-en-Y …
Shiva Kumar, MD, MS, FASGE from the Center for Liver Disease & Transplantation, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE discusses this VideoGIE case,"Cholangioscopy-directed endoscopic intervention for post–liver transplantation anastomotic biliary stricture." A 59-year-old man presented with a cholestatic liver profile 20 months …
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Yosuke Tsuji, MD, PhD, Mitsuhiro Fujishiro, MD, PhD, and Kazuhiko Koike, MD, PhD from Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan discuss this Original Article "Polyglycolic acid sheets and fibrin glue decrease the risk of bleeding after endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastric neoplasms (with video)." Polyglycolic acid (PGA) …
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Vivek Kumbhari, MD from the Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland, USA presents this case from VideoGIE, "Common indications for transoral flexible endoscopic suturing." This video introduces the OverStitch flexible endoscopic suturing system (Apollo Endosurgery, Austin, Tx, USA). We demonstrate the use of …
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Brian P. Riff, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA describes this VideoGIE case, "A novel technique for over-the-scope clip application: a safer and more secure method." The video case demonstrates our preferred technique for closing persistent gastrocutaneous fistulas (GCF). …
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Vinay Dhir, MD from the Department of Endoscopy and Endosonography, Baldota Institute of Digestive Sciences in Mumbai, India discusses his Original Article "Multicenter comparative evaluation of endoscopic placement of expandable metal stents for malignant distal common bile duct obstruction by ERCP or EUS-guided approach." ERCP is the procedure of choice for relief of jaundice due …
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John R. Saltzman, MD, FASGE, Director of Endoscopy at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Editor of GIE describes this latest document from the ASGE Standards of Practice committee titled "Bowel preparation before colonoscopy." The latest information about the current available preps including their efficacy, cost, safety …
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