A lifetime of pushing boundaries: thinking outside the box to endoscopically treat complex gastrointestinal diseases

Post written by Todd H. Baron, MD, MASGE, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, and Phillip S. Ge, MD, FASGE, from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA. Please join iGIE in celebrating the career of Dr Todd Baron, a legendary pioneer who dared to break rules to …

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Drainage of infected pancreatic necrosis

Amy Tyberg, MD, from Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York, USA shares this video case "Drainage of infected pancreatic necrosis by using 2 lumen-apposing metal stents, a nasocystic drain, and hydrogen peroxide." This case describes a 55-year-old man with an infected, 16cm walled-off necrotic pancreatic fluid collection. Standard cystgastrostomy into the proximal …

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Hemorrhagic pancreatic necrosis drainage

Prashant Kedia, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University in New York, New York, USA shares this video case "Hemorrhagic pancreatic necrosis drainage by using an esophageal stent." This video highlights the case of a patient with infected hemorrhagic pancreatic necrosis treated with endoscopic debridement through a …

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Endoscopic necrosectomy

Nikhil A. Kumta, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, New York, USA presents this video case, "Endoscopic necrosectomy by using a transgastric fully covered esophageal metal stent." Infected walled off pancreatic necrosis is an adverse event of pancreatitis requiring drainage and debridement for definitive management. …

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Debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrosis

Ryan Law, DO from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA presents this video case "Simultaneous transgastric and transcolonic debridement of walled-off pancreatic necrosis." Our video demonstrates concomitant transgastric and transcolonic debridement of pancreatic necrosis in a patient 4 weeks after an episode of severe acute pancreatitis with …

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