Post written by Yichen Wang, MD, MSc, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. We sought to determine the incidence, risk factors, and treatment outcomes of Dieulafoy’s lesion of the upper GI tract (UDL) hemorrhage among adult patients in the United States. Dieulafoy’s lesion is an aberrantly …
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Endoscopic negative pressure therapy for upper gastrointestinal leaks
Post written by Rami Archid, MD, from the Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Eberhard-Karls-University Hospital, Tuebingen, Germany. A 61-year-old male patient was treated for Siewert type I gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy using FLOT regimen (5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, docetaxel) with Trastuzumab was followed by esophagectomy with cervical esophagogastrostomy. On postoperative day 3, he …
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Accuracy of artificial intelligence–assisted detection of upper GI lesions
Post written by Wai K. Leung, MD, FRCP, from the Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. This meta-analysis aims to summarize the performance of all recently published studies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted endoscopic detection of gastric and esophageal neoplastic lesions as well as H. pylori infection. …
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Second-generation magnetically controlled capsule gastroscopy with improved image resolution and frame rate
Post written by Zhuan Liao, MD, from the National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, Department of Gastroenterology, Changhai Hospital, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China. We first described an updated magnetically controlled capsule gastroscopy (MCCG-2) highlighted with improvements in frame rate, image resolution, field of view, battery life, and data transmission compared to first generation …
