Post written by VideoGIE Editor Emeritus Field F. Willingham, MD, MPH, FASGE, from Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I cannot believe how fast it went. What an honor to have had the opportunity to lead VideoGIE for these past 5 years. I loved every minute we spent working on and evolving the journal. I …
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Post written by Agnieszka Maniak, MD, and Irving Waxman, MD, from Rush University Medical Center, Center for Interventional Endoscopy, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our case features a 74-year-old woman who presented with recurrent hematochezia despite conventional endoscopic hemostasis following endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) of a 50-mm rectal polyp. During her second presentation for hematochezia, the patient underwent a CT angiography that …
Post written by Ahmad Madkour, MD, and Amr Elfouly, MD, from the Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo, and Hassan Atalla, MD, from the Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt. Esophageal fibrovascular polyps are rare benign tumors. Huge polyps usually necessitate an aggressive type of surgery. Endoscopic removal of …
Post written by Partha Pal, MD, DNB, MRCP (UK), FASGE, from the Department of Medical Gastroenterology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India. This video demonstrates a staged endoscopic stricturotomy using the segmental layered incision and circumferential endoscopic dissection (SLICE) technique in a patient with a long, tight fibrotic colonic stricture at the splenic flexure. The stricture was …
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 …
Continue reading Submucosal injection to facilitate needle-knife sphincterotomy: a novel technique
Post written by Shanshan Shen, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. A 50-year-old woman with refractory vomiting and severe electrolyte imbalance was diagnosed with a cystic-communicating duodenal duplication causing duodenal obstruction. As the patient declined surgical intervention, we performed EUS-guided duodenojejunostomy (EUS-DJ). Under the guidance …
Post written by Robert Bechara, MD, from Queen's University, Kingston Health Sciences Center, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. This video demonstrates the use of a thulium laser system for colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in a 68-year-old man with a 3.5-cm rectal lesion detected following a positive fecal immunochemical test result. The lesion was classified as Paris Is and …
Continue reading Thulium laser–assisted colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection
Post written by José Celso Ardengh, PhD, from the Digestive Endoscopy Service, Hospital Moriah, São Paulo, and Department of Surgery and Anatomy, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, and André Orsini Ardengh, MD, from the Digestive Endoscopy Service, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. …
Post written by Aman Yadav, MD, and Alexander Huelsen, MD, from Department of Gastroenterology & Digestive Health, Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Australia. In our video, we demonstrate a simple and reproducible gastroscope-assisted method to examine the oral cavity and nasopharynx during routine EGD. With the use of a standard diagnostic gastroscope equipped with a distal cap, the oral …
Continue reading Gastroscope-assisted oral cavity and nasopharynx examination
Post written by Prakash Zacharias, MD, DM, and Mathew Philip, MD, DM, from the Lisie Institute of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Transplantation, Lisie Hospital, Kochi, India. This article highlights the application of a third-space endoscopic technique to restore luminal continuity in a patient with complete esophageal obstruction at the postcricoid region. We successfully created a neo-lumen by performing submucosal tunneling from …
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