Shashideep Singhal, MD, and colleagues from the Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, New York present this video case titled "Endoscopic closure of gastric perforation using Over-the-Scope Clip: a surgery-sparing approach." A 61-year-old woman with history of diabetes mellitus, sarcoidosis, and chronic oral steroid therapy presented for EGD for evaluation of dysphagia. The patient was found …
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Editor’s Choice- Diagnostic accuracy of mucinous pancreatic cysts
Ananya Das, MD, FASGE, highlights this article from the January issue "Performance characteristics of molecular (DNA) analysis for the diagnosis of mucinous pancreatic cysts" by Mohammad Al-Haddad, MBBS, MSc, FASGE, John DeWitt, MD, FASGE, Stuart Sherman, MD, FASGE, C. Max Schmidt, MD, PhD, Julia K. LeBlanc, MD, MPH, Lee McHenry, MD, Gregory Coté, MD, MS, …
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Wishing you a wonderful New Year's! We look forward to working with you in 2014. ~ The GIE Editorial Team
Novel endoscopic retrieval
Bipan Chand, MD, FASGE, and colleagues from the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, in Maywood, Illinois, USA discuss their video-based case titled "Complete endoscopic/transgastric retrieval of eroded gastric band: a novel technique" from December's VideoGIE section. This video case shows a unique endoscopic way of removing an eroded gastric band, offering viewers a …
A Brief History of the Fellows’ Corner
Stephen Kim, MD, a third year GI fellow at the UCLA Medical Center and current co-editor of the Fellows’ Corner, provides an abbreviated history of the Fellows’ Corner column. In January 2005, the first Fellows’ Corner column was published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy while under the direction of Editor-in-Chief, George Triadafilopoulos, MD. From the onset, the …
Improving palatability of bowel prep
Ala Sharara, MD, from the American University of Beirut Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon shares some insights about his Original Article "Sugar-free mentholyptus drops improve the palatability and bowel cleansing effect of PEG-Electrolyte solution" from the December issue. Colon preparations are generally poorly tolerated and, consequently, serve as an impediment to colorectal cancer screening and …
Editor’s Choice- Results of Tokyo Trial of Prevention of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis
Associate Editor Jacques Devière, MD, PhD, recommends this article from the December issue "Results of the Tokyo Trial of Prevention of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis with Risperidone-2: a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial" by Rie Uchino, MD, PhD, Hiroyuki Isayama, MD, PhD, Takeshi Tsujino, MD, PhD, Naoki Sasahira, MD, PhD, Yukiko Ito, MD, PhD, Saburo Matsubara, MD, …
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ORCID—Connecting Research to Researchers
Authors who have submitted papers recently to GIE may have noticed something new—a prompt to register for an ORCID identifier. Founded in 2010, ORCID is a non-profit organization developing an open registry of unique personal identifiers for researchers and scholars. ORCID identifiers, a unique 16-digit number, connect researchers and scholars with their contributions and published …
Novel EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy technique
Takao Itoi, MD, PhD, FASGE from the Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan discusses his article "Novel EUS-guided gastrojejunostomy technique using a new double-balloon enteric tube and lumen-apposing metal stent (with videos)" from the New Methods section of the December issue. Advanced gastric, duodenal, and peri-pancreatic cancers can show gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) at the …
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Meet the Fellows’ Corner Editor– Stephen Kim
Get to know the GIE Fellows’ Corner Editor, Stephen Kim, MD, from the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Endoscopedia: What area of GI would you like to focus on after fellowship? SK: Pancreatic cancer, pancreatic cysts Endoscopedia: How did you get involved with the Journal’s Fellows’ Corner? SK: As a fourth year medical …
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