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Endoluminal treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common and expensive condition that negatively impacts the quality of life of millions of people. Traditionally, it has been treated with lifestyle modifications, acid reducing medications, or surgical fundoplication. Endoscopic treatments have been developed for patients with symptomatic GERD in the absence of hiatal hernia. Radiofrequency energy delivery has been in use for over a decade and has been proven to reduce GERD symptoms and PPI use. Transoral fundoplication has also been shown to reduce GERD symptoms and PPI use, though long-term efficacy has yet to be established. (...
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - February 23, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Sara E. Martin del Campo, Kyle A. Perry Source Type: research

The role of capsule endoscopy in evaluating both suspected and known Crohnʼs disease
Capsule endoscopy (CE) has revolutionized our approach to evaluating the small bowel. The capsule endoscope is an ingestible and disposable video camera that transmits high-quality images of the small bowel mucosa. Conferring the ability to visualize the entire small bowel, CE has the potential to facilitate the evaluation of Crohnʼs disease (CD), providing access to bowel segments previously inaccessible by push enteroscopy and ileocolonoscopy. CE appears to be complementary to cross-sectional imaging techniques such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance enterography and has demonstrated comparable yields in pati...
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - February 21, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Erika S. Boroff, Jonathan A. Leighton Source Type: research

The Role of Capsule Endoscopy in Evaluating Both Suspected and Known Crohn’s Disease
Capsule endoscopy has revolutionized our approach to evaluating the small bowel. The capsule endoscope is an ingestible and disposable video camera that transmits high quality images of the small bowel mucosa. Conferring the ability to visualize the entire small bowel, capsule endoscopy (CE) has the potential to facilitate the evaluation of Crohn’s disease (CD), providing access to bowel segments previously inaccessible by push enteroscopy and ileocolonoscopy. CE appears to be complementary to cross sectional imaging techniques such as CT and MR enterography and has demonstrated comparable yields in CD patients. (Source:...
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - February 21, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Erika S Boroff, Jonathan A Leighton Source Type: research

Capsule Endoscopy in Pediatrics: A Growing Experience
Capsule endoscopy (CE) usage and research in pediatrics is in its infancy, but growing. The possibility of avoiding ionizing radiation, deep sedation and general anesthesia makes CE an appealing tool for diagnosis and disease state monitoring in luminal pediatric gastrointestinal disorders. As such, clinical use is expanding but research has lagged behind, focusing on inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) and polyposis syndromes. FDA approval in 2009 for children 2 years of age and older has resulted from the broader application of CE. (Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - February 3, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Stanley A. Cohen, Salvatore Oliva Source Type: research

Promise and Potential of Video Capsule Endoscopy in the Emergency Department
Video capsule endoscopy (VCE) represents a novel strategy to perform rapid diagnosis of gastrointestinal tract bleeding, portal hypertension, non-cardiac chest pain and other disorders. There are limited numbers of US EDs that have used VCE on trial and protocol-based patient studies but the results are encouraging. Given the expanding role of advanced diagnostic and point-of-care testing in the US EDs, VCE has great potential for future evaluation of ED gastrointestinal complaints. (Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - January 30, 2015 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: A.C. Meltzer, Showkat Bashir Source Type: research

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Optimal endoscopic techniques to reduce the risk of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis
Post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis (PEP) is the most common and feared complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. Patient selection is an important variable that is important when determining the risk of PEP. The factors that may increase the risk of PEP include papillary trauma, papillary edema, and pancreatic ductal injury (mechanical or hydrostatic). Proven methods to decrease the risk of PEP include wire-guided cannulation, prophylactic short-term pancreatic duct (PD) stenting, and avoiding frequent PD cannulation, injection, or overinjection. (Source: Techniques in Ga...
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - October 14, 2014 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Nikhil J. Shastri, Cyrus R. Piraka Source Type: research

Optimal Endoscopic Techniques to Reduce the Risk of Post-ERCP Pancreatitis
Post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) is the most common and feared complication of ERCP. Patient selection is one important variable that is important when determining the risk of PEP. The factors that may increase the risk of PEP include papillary trauma, papillary edema, and pancreatic ductal injury (mechanical or hydrostatic). Proven methods to decrease the risk of PEP include wire-guided cannulation, prophylactic short-term pancreatic duct stenting, and avoiding frequent pancreatic duct cannulation, injection or over injection. (Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - October 14, 2014 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Nikhil J. Shastri, Cyrus R. Piraka Source Type: research

Post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis: Risk stratification and appropriate patient selection
Postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography pancreatitis (PEP) is the most common endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography–related complication with its prevalence estimated at approximately 10%. Many patient- and procedural-related risk factors for PEP have been identified. These risk factors have been weighted in many studies, allowing identification of the most important risk factors for PEP. Unfortunately, there are no comprehensive and validated scoring systems developed to predict the risk for PEP in an individual patient based on the prevalence of multiple risk factors. (Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - October 9, 2014 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Robert A. Moran, Venkata S. Akshintala, Vikesh K. Singh Source Type: research

Post-ERCP pancreatitis: Risk stratification and appropriate patient selection
Since the advent of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) over 4 decades ago, the endoscopic management of pancreaticobiliary disease has fundamentally changed [1]. While ERCP was initially used as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool, advances in noninvasive imaging modalities, primarily magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), have made ERCP an exclusively therapeutic procedure. (Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy)
Source: Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy - October 9, 2014 Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Robert A. Moran, Venkat S. Akshintala, Vikesh K. Singh Source Type: research

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