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Submucosal injection to facilitate needle-knife sphincterotomy: a novel technique

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Post written by Kambiz Kadkhodayan, MD, and Muhammad K. Hasan, MD, FACG, FRCP (Glasg), from the Center for Interventional Endoscopy, AdventHealth Orlando, Orlando, Florida, USA. We present a patient with obstructive jaundice and a flat (type 1) ampulla in whom conventional biliary cannulation using a standard sphincterotome was unsuccessful despite prolonged attempts. Given the unfavorable papillary morphology and need for …

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Needle-knife incision and drainage of duodenal intramural hematoma relieving duodenal and biliary obstruction

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Post written by Bakht S. Cheema, MD, from Digestive Disease Consultants, and Yusuke Hashimoto, MD, MMA, from the University of Florida Health, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. A 44-year-old man presented with postprandial vomiting and jaundice. He had an episode of acute-on-chronic pancreatitis complicated with a pseudocyst and a spontaneous large duodenal intramural hemorrhage causing duodenal luminal obstruction …

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Flexible endoscopic management of Zenker’s diverticulum

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Post written by Kondal Kyanam Kabir Baig, MBBS, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. We described a case of an elderly gentleman with cardiac comorbidities with symptomatic Zenker’s diverticulum and, in particular, a history of undergoing a Heimlich maneuver for choking. We used …

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