Post written by Partha Pal, MD, DNB, MRCP (UK), ESEGH, FASGE, from the Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India. We present the case of a 47-year-old man with ileocolonic Crohn’s disease who developed recurrent obstructive symptoms despite biologic therapy. Preprocedural intestinal ultrasound (IUS) identified a short, predominantly fibrotic ascending colon stricture with upstream fecaliths. Colonoscopy confirmed a …
Tag: Stricturotomy
Repeated endoscopic dilation and needle-knife stricturotomy for Crohn’s disease strictures
Post written by Julien D. Schulberg, MBBS, PhD, and Michael A. Kamm, MBBS, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent’s Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The focus of this study was to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and efficacy of intensive endoscopic therapy for treating symptomatic Crohn’s disease—related strictures. It compares standard …
Initial safety and efficacy of a novel drug-coated balloon for treatment of benign intestinal strictures
Post written by Bo Shen, MD, from Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA. Benign and malignant primary (ie, disease-associated) or anastomotic strictures in the lower GI tract are common in gastroenterology. The focus of this article is the endoscopic treatment of benign primary or anastomotic strictures (eg, diverticular diseases). The …
Endoscopic tunneled stricturotomy in the treatment of stenosis after sleeve gastrectomy
Post written by Diogo Turiani Hourneaux de Moura, MD, MSc, PhD, from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We present a case of a 22-year-old obese woman with a history of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. The surgery was uncomplicated; however, the patient was slow in advancing her diet. For the first …
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