Showing papers in "Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in 2011"

TL;DR: This guideline is intended to be an educational device to provide information that may assist endoscopists in providing care to patients and is not a rule and should not be construed as establishing a legal standard of care.

TL;DR: The following document, or PIVI, is one of a series of statements defining the diagnostic or therapeutic threshold that must be met for a technique or device to become considered appropriate for incorporation into clinical practice.

TL;DR: Although a minority of patients undergo early repeat examination after colonoscopy done with suboptimal bowel preparation, the miss rates for colonoscopies done withSuboptimal Bowel preparation substantially decreases colonoscopes effectiveness and may mandate an early follow-up examination.

TL;DR: AIMS65 is a simple, accurate risk score that predicts in-hospital mortality, LOS, and cost in patients with acute upper GI bleeding and is validated by using data routinely available at initial evaluation.

TL;DR: EUS-FNA-related morbidity and mortality rates are relatively low, and most associated events are mild to moderate in severity.

TL;DR: Performing an EUS-FNB with a new 19-gauge histology needle is feasible for histopathology diagnosis of intraintestinal and extraintestinal mass lesions, offering the possibility of obtaining a core sample for histological evaluation in the majority of cases, with an overall diagnostic accuracy of over 85%.

TL;DR: EUS-HGS and EUS-CDS may be relatively safe and can be used as an alternative to PTBD after failed ERCP and both techniques offer durable and comparable stent patency.

TL;DR: Endobiliary bipolar radiofrequency ablation in patients with malignant biliary obstruction appears to be safe and Randomized studies with prolonged follow-up are warranted.

TL;DR: This large, multicenter series demonstrates that transmural, minimally invasive endoscopic débridement of WOPN performed in the United States is an efficacious and reproducible technique with an acceptable safety profile.

TL;DR: Evaluation of bile duct disease and biliary stone therapy can be safely performed with a high success rate by using the SOC system, and the utility of SOC in more widespread clinical use is confirmed.

TL;DR: This study suggests that endoscopic triamcinolone injection (ETI) is safe and effective for the prevention of esophageal stricture in patients undergoing ESD for superficial esophileal squamous cell carcinomas.

TL;DR: Post-ESD esophageal strictures were persistent even if treated preemptively with multiple EBD sessions, but oral prednisolone may offer a useful preventive option.

TL;DR: The use of a split-dosing PEG for bowel preparation before colonoscopy significantly improved the number of satisfactory bowel preparations, increased patient compliance, and decreased nausea compared with the full-dose PEG.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the sensitivity and specificity of probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) with HD-WLE alone for the detection of high-grade dysplasia (HGD) and early carcinoma (EC) in BE.

TL;DR: In this European, multicenter study, CCE-2 appeared to have a high sensitivity for the detection of clinically relevant polypoid lesions, and it might be considered an adequate tool for colorectal imaging.

TL;DR: Pancreatic stent placement decreases the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis and hyperamylasemia in high-risk patients and lack of adequate study of long-term complications of pancreatic Stent placement is noted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the clinical outcomes of endoscopic treatment, based on absolute indication and extended indication criteria and endoscopic methods, were determined for early gastric cancer (EGC) patients.

TL;DR: CSEMSs have a significantly longer duration of patency compared with USEMSs in patients with distal malignant biliary obstruction, and stent dysfunction occurs at a similar rate, although there is a trend toward later obstruction with CSEMSs.

TL;DR: The EUS-guided MTGT is an effective treatment option for the management of symptomatic walled-off pancreatic necrosis because it obviates the need for surgery and endoscopic necrosectomy and its attendant procedure-related morbidity.

TL;DR: Double-balloon endoscopy evaluation of small-bowel diseases is used in clinical practice, with a relatively high detection rate, but there was a difference in its causes between Western and Eastern countries.

TL;DR: Elderly patients, especially octogenarians, appear to have a higher risk of complications during and after colonoscopy and these data should inform clinical decision making, the consent process, public health policy, and comparative effectiveness analyses.

TL;DR: A consensus list was developed for comments and testing to complement the proposed lexicons for adverse events and risk factors and establish a system for grading the complexity of endoscopic procedures.

TL;DR: Leaks and fistulae are reliably closed with OTSCs in tissue flexible enough to be sucked into the attached cap (eg, in lesions caused <1 week before) and GI bleeding may be stopped by OTSC with reliable transient he mostasis, but durable hemostasis is less frequent.

TL;DR: Use of self-expandable metal stents for the treatment of benign upper GI leaks and perforations is feasible, relatively safe, and effective, and SEMSs can be easily removed 1 to 3 weeks after SEPS insertion.

TL;DR: The Third Eye Retroscope increases adenoma detection rate by visualizing areas behind folds byVisualizing areasbehind folds in colonoscopy patients with high polyp prevalence.

TL;DR: EUS and EUS-FNA are sensitive for the diagnosis of CCA and very specific in predicting unresectability - significantly higher in distal than in proximal CCA.

TL;DR: This guideline is intended to be an educational device o provide information that may assist endoscopists in roviding care to patients that is based on both the aggregate evidence quality and an assessment of the anticipated benefits and harms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the utility, performance, and accuracy of real-time probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE) diagnosis compared with histopathology in indeterminate pancreaticobiliary strictures.

TL;DR: Transesophageal EUS-guided coil and CYA treatment of GFV is feasible and deserves further study to determine whether this novel approach can improve safety and efficacy over standard endoscopic injection of CYA alone.

TL;DR: SpyGlass cholangioscopy with SpyBite biopsies has a high accuracy with regard to confirming or excluding malignancy in patients with indeterminate biliary lesions.