Post written by Rungsun Rerknimitr, MD, FRCP (London), FASGE, from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. Our case is about a 10-year-old girl with known tropical chronic pancreatitis with mutation at the transition c.206C>T in exon 4 of the SPINK1 gene who underwent pancreatic sphincterotomy via major papilla with pancreatic stone extraction 6 months prior. The patient presented with a new episode of epigastric pain and elevation …
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Transjejunal ERCP, EUS-guided gallbladder drainage, and cholecystoscopy with direct electrohydraulic lithotripsy with large gallstone removal in Roux-en-Y anatomy
Post written by Arjun Chatterjee, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. A 61-year-old man presented with intermittent right-upper-quadrant pain, nausea, and vomiting. A CT scan of his abdomen revealed choledocholithiasis and large cholelithiasis. His medical and surgical history included severe obesity, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, bowel perforation with extensive resection, …
Definitive nonsurgical management of stump cholecystitis with EUS-guided lumen-apposing metal stent placement and electrohydraulic lithotripsy
Post written by Rishi Pawa, MD, from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. A 31-year-old woman presented with right-upper-quadrant pain and imaging findings of acute cholecystitis. She underwent an open subtotal cholecystectomy because of extensive adhesive disease involving the gallbladder. Initially, the patient did well postoperatively but started having recurrent symptoms …
“Loop-10” line-assisted clip closure method: closure of perforation in re-do peroral endoscopic myotomy
Post written by Marc Julius Navarro, MD, from the Digestive Diseases Center, Showa University Koto Toyosu Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, and the Institute of Digestive and Liver Diseases, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines. In this video, we highlight how the “Loop-10” line-assisted clip closure method presented to be a feasible and effective method in achieving …
2023 GIE, VideoGIE, and iGIE top reviewers honored at DDW
Congratulations to the 2023 GIE, VideoGIE, and iGIE Reviewer Award Winners, who will be recognized at the Editors’ Reception on May 8 at Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, Illinois, USA. These distinguished reviewers are being honored for their superior contributions to the journals through completing high numbers of reviews and submitting the highest quality of …
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Usefulness of the ultrathin endoscope with a newly developed knife for complex esophageal endoscopic submucosal dissection
Post written by Satoki Shichijo, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan. A 62-year-old woman underwent subtotal esophagectomy for esophageal cancer, local resection of pharyngeal cancer with postoperative radiotherapy, and bilateral cervical lymph node dissection because of pharyngeal cancer metastasis. Follow-up endoscopy revealed a 10-mm brownish area in the …
Helix tack for lumen-apposing metal stent fixation in single-session EUS-directed transgastric ERCP
Post written by Kambiz S. Kadkhodayan, MD, from the Center for Interventional Endoscopy, AdventHealth, Orlando, Florida, USA. We describe the use of a helix tack system to anchor the proximal flange of a lumen-apposing metal stent (LAMS) to the gastric pouch during a single-session EUS-directed transgastric ERCP (SS-EDGE). This video case also describes a reverse …
Bile duct tissue acquisition by cholangioscopy-guided cryobiopsy technique: first-in-human application
Post written by Jan Peveling-Oberhag, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Klinikum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. The cryobiopsy technique is a new method for tissue extraction that allows for extraction of high tissue amounts with a minimal diameter endoscopic instrument. Forceps biopsies through the very small working channel of a cholangioscope are oftentimes unrepresentative. In this …
Successful planned piecemeal endoscopic resection using gel immersion and an over-the-scope clip for a lesion extensively extended into the colonic diverticulum
Post written by Tomoaki Tashima, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. A 78-year-old man was referred to our institute for treatment of a flat elevated (20-mm diameter) lesion observed around and within the diverticulum near the ileocecal valve of the ascending colon. The lesion border was marked via an …
Duodenal stenting as a palliative approach to a malignant duodenocolonic fistula
Post written by Yassmin Hegazy, MD, from the Department of Medicine and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Our case is about a 73-year-old man with a history of GERD and diabetes mellitus who presented with a 1-week history of hematochezia with associated nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and epigastric pain. …
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