Post written by Chae Min Michelle Lee, MD, MEng, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University Health Network, and Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Numerous trials have been conducted to examine the role of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in polyp detection during colonoscopy. Available AI detection tools rely …
Editor’s Choice: Endoscopic submucosal dissection with versus without traction for pathologically staged T1B esophageal cancer: a multicenter retrospective study
GIE Associate Editor Seiichiro Abe, MD, PhD, FASGE, FJGES, highlights this article from the May issue: “Endoscopic submucosal dissection with versus without traction for pathologically staged T1B esophageal cancer: a multicenter retrospective study” by Abel Joseph, MD, et al. Guidelines recommend staging endoscopic resection for a visible neoplastic lesion in Barrett’s esophagus and noncircumferential esophageal …
Validation of a new optical diagnosis training module to improve dysplasia characterization in inflammatory bowel disease: a multicenter international study
Post written by Marietta Iacucci, MD, PhD, FASGE, AGAF, from APC Microbiome Ireland, College of Medicine and Health, University College of Cork, Cork, Ireland. Patients with long-standing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of dysplastic lesions. Therefore, consensus and guidelines recommend performing regular surveillance colonoscopy using dye or virtual chromoendoscopy to enhance lesion identification …
Peroral endoscopic septotomy for Zenker’s diverticulum with additional cut of mucosal flap: step by step
Post written by Harold Benites-Goñi, MD, from San Ignacio de Loyola University and Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital, Lima, Perú. The final goal of treatment of Zenker’s diverticulum is cutting the cricopharyngeal muscle to eliminate the septum. In our video, we show a variant of peroral endoscopic myotomy for the management of Zenker’s diverticulum. This case …
Deep learning–based lesion detection and severity grading of small-bowel Crohn’s disease ulcers on double-balloon endoscopy images
Post written by Wanqing Xie, PhD, from the Department of Intelligent Medical Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. We studied the lesion classification of small-bowel Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcer severity grading in terms of depth, size, and …
Cholangioscopy as a rescue for a post-cholecystectomy adherent stone formed around a migrated surgical clip in the common bile duct
Post written by Chukwunonso Ezeani, MD, from Baton Rouge General Medical Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. This is a case of an 88-year-old woman with a history of cholecystectomy 30 years prior who presented with acute-onset right upper quadrant pain, nausea, and vomiting. Laboratory and imaging data were consistent with choledocholithiasis, with the bile duct measuring …
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 …
Technical tips for EUS-guided embolization of varices and pseudoaneurysms
Post written by Radhika Chavan, MD, DNB, FASGE, FISG, from Ansh Clinic, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. In our article, we demonstrate the techniques of EUS-guided embolization of various vascular lesions, including gastric varices, ectopic varices, and pseudoaneurysms. We discuss 2 methods of EUS-guided embolization for gastric varices: (1) direct puncture of the varices and (2) feeder vessel …
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Automatically optimized radiomics modeling system for small gastric submucosal tumor (<2 cm) discrimination based on EUS images
Post written by Mingyan Cai, MD, PhD, FASGE, from the Endoscopy Center and Endoscopy Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. In this study, we developed and validated an automatically optimized radiomics modeling system (AORMS) based on EUS images to diagnose small GI stromal tumors (GISTs) (<2 cm) from non-GISTs and predict those with high …
Retrograde EUS-guided ileocolostomy for malignant small-bowel obstruction
Post written by Michael Lajin, MD, from Sharp HealthCare, San Diego, California, USA. A 64-year-old woman with a history of perforated goblet cell carcinoid tumor of the appendix underwent extensive cytoreductive surgery with heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy 5 years prior. She had a recent small-bowel obstruction requiring exploratory laparotomy with extensive lysis of adhesions and resection of …
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