Payal Saxena, MD, from the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, USA presents this video case "EUS-Guided Drainage of a Giant Hemorrhagic Pseudocyst by a Through-the-scope Esophageal Metal Stent." A 78-year-old man with hemorrhagic transformation of a 17cm pseudocyst was hemodynamically unstable requiring splenic artery embolization. …
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ESD through a gastrostomy
Shinji Kitamura, MD, and colleagues from the Department of Gastroenterology and Oncology at the Institute of Health Biosciences at the University of Tokushima Graduate School in Tokushima City, Japan share this video case titled "Endoscopic submucosal dissection through a gastrostomy for early gastric cancer in patients with pharyngeal stenosis." This report describes the safety and …
Introducer-type percutaneous gastrostomy system
Mavrogenis Georgios, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology at the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi in Charleroi, Belgium presents this video demonstration of the introducer-type percutaneous gastrostomy system.This video describes the Pexact gastrostomy system. We made efforts to present in detail all the steps of this procedure. Not all endoscopists are familiarized with this technique. We …
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Pancreatoscopy for pancreatic duct stones
Douglas G. Adler, MD, FASGE from the University of Utah School of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, presents this video case titled "Pancreatoscopy for Pancreatic Duct Stones." The video demonstrates the case of a man with visualized pancreatic duct stones on a CT scan that were discovered during an evaluation for pancreatic-type pain. Standard ERCP techniques …
Endoscopic outcomes in early esophageal cancer
Sachin Wani, MD, from the University of Colorado and Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, USA discusses his Original Article "Comparison of endoscopic therapies and surgical resection in patients with early esophageal cancer: a population-based study" from the February issue. The aims of this study were to use the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results …
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Colon capsule endoscopy after incomplete colonoscopy
Konstantinos Triantafyllou, MD, PhD at the Hepatogastroenterology Unit at Athens University, Attikon University General Hospital in Athens, Greece, summarizes his Original Article "Colon capsule endoscopy is feasible to perform after incomplete colonoscopy and guides further workup in clinical practice." The purpose of this study was to prospectively investigate the feasibility of colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) following …
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Editor’s Choice- Cost-effectiveness of endoscopic surveillance
Robert Enns, MD recommends this original article from the February issue "Cost-effectiveness of endoscopic surveillance of non-dysplastic Barrett’s esophagus" by Louisa G. Gordon, PhD, George C. Mayne, PhD, Nicholas G. Hirst, MHealthEcon, Timothy Bright, MBBS, PhD, David C. Whiteman, MBBS, PhD, for the Australian Cancer Study Clinical Follow-Up Study, and David I. Watson, MBBS, PhD. …
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Novel laparoscopic and hand assisted enteroscopy technique
Hazem Hammad, MD, and colleagues from the University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics in Columbia, Missouri, USA present this video case titled "Laparoscopic and hand assisted deep enteroscopy with polypectomy in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome." This was a very unique case of a late initial diagnosis of a Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) patient (at 64 years old) and …
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Spectroscopic diagnosis of esophageal dysplasia
Max Almond, MB, ChB, DM, from Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester, United Kingdom, discusses his original article "Endoscopic Raman spectroscopy enables objective diagnosis of dysplasia in Barrett's esophagus" from the January issue. This study evaluated a novel endoscopic diagnostic probe for use in patients with Barrett's esophagus. Up to 57% of Barrett's-associated dysplasia may be missed …
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Managing large duodenal lipoma by duodenoscope
Yong Pang, MD, and colleagues from the General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region of PLA in China report on this video case "Unroofing and grasp-and-snare techniques in the management of large duodenal lipoma by duodenoscope combined with double-channel endoscope." In this video, we describe a new combined method for endoscopic resection of large duodenal lipoma. …
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