Ryan Law, DO, from Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, Illinois, USA presents this video case "Cholecystoduodenostomy and duodenal stenting for relief of biliary and gastric outlet obstruction." Our case describes the placement of a lumen-apposing stent into the gallbladder followed by placement of an uncovered metal duodenal stent for palliation in a …
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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 shares this video case "EUS-guided biliary drainage made safer by a combination of hepaticogastrostomy and antegrade transpapillary stenting." A 61-year-old male presented with malignant biliary obstruction secondary to locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. …
Chan Hyuk Park, MD and Jun Chul Park, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, in Seoul, Republic of Korea discuss this Original Article "Learning curve for EUS in gastric cancer T staging by using cumulative sum analysis." In our study, we …
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Takeshi Ogura, MD, PhD from the Second Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical College in Osaka, Japan shares this VideoGIE case "Antegrade biopsy by using a trans-catheter technique through EUS-guided hepaticojejunostomy." In our video, we described technical tips of antegrade biopsy and blushing cytology through endoscopic ultrasound-guided hepaticojejunostomy. First, we punctured the intrahepatic bile duct …
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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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