Post written by Bo Shen, MD, from Columbia University Irving Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, and Phillip S. Ge, MD, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. This article describes the evolution of the field of interventional inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ie, endoscopic management of structural adverse events of IBD, …
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Post written by Bo Shen, MD, FASGE, from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA. Endoscopy plays a key role in diagnosis, assessment of disease activity and treatment response, postoperative disease monitoring, dysplasia surveillance, and delivery of therapy. Ileocolonoscopy (occasionally with upper endoscopy or enteroscopy) establishes the diagnosis of Crohn’s disease (CD) …
Post written by Yinghong Wang, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. To our knowledge, this is the largest multicenter study to develop an endoscopic scoring system for guiding management of immune-mediated colitis (IMC) in cancer care. This scoring system has demonstrated …
Post written by Marietta Iacucci, MD, PhD, FASGE, AGAF, from APC Microbiome Ireland, College of Medicine and Health, University College of Cork, Cork, Ireland. Patients with long-standing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of dysplastic lesions. Therefore, consensus and guidelines recommend performing regular surveillance colonoscopy using dye or virtual chromoendoscopy to enhance lesion identification …
Post written by Nayantara Coelho-Prabhu, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. This study was performed to assess the interobserver variability in application of the recommended Paris classification to describe the morphology of visible dysplasia in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) colonoscopies. There is a lack of …
Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, in Rochester, Minnesota, USA discusses "Incremental diagnostic yield of chromoendoscopy and outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease patients with a history of colorectal dysplasia on white-light endoscopy." The focus of our study was to evaluate whether initial and subsequent chromoendoscopy (CE) …
Continue reading Incremental diagnostic yield of chromoendoscopy in IBD
GIE Associate Editor Alessandro Repici, MD, recommends this article from the May issue: "Incremental diagnostic yield of chromoendoscopy and outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease patients with a history of colorectal dysplasia on white-light endoscopy" by Parakkal Deepak, MBBS, Gregory J. Hanson, MD, Joel G. Fletcher, MD, et al. The role of careful examination with CE …
Parambir S. Dulai, MBBS, from the University of California San Diego in San Diego, California, USA discusses this review article "Assessment of mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease: review." Within this review article we have compared diagnostic tools currently available for the assessment of mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease, and we have outlined the …
Associate Editor Lisa Strate, MD, MPH recommends this article from the August issue: "Assessment of mucosal healing in inflammatory bowel disease: review" by Parambir S. Dulai, MBBS, Barrett G. Levesque, MD, MS, Brian G. Feagan, MD, Geert D’Haens, MD, PhD, and William J. Sandborn, MD. Mucosal healing has been shown to correlate with treatment outcomes …
GIE Associate Editor Alessandro Repici, MD, recommends this article from the May issue "The role of endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease" from the ASGE Standards of Practice committee, Amandeep K. Shergill, Jenifer R. Lightdale, David H. Bruining, et al. This is a valuable study because it is an excellent update on how endoscopy should be used …
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