Sommario

• • ·Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Focus on…

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• • ·ASGE Update

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• • ·In Upcoming Issues…

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• • ·Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Programs

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• • ·Capsule summaries

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• • ·August 2008 Instructions for Authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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• Guideline

  • ·RETRACTED: Sedation and anesthesia in GI endoscopy

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    Prepared by: Standards of Practice Committee, David R. Lichtenstein, Sanjay Jagannath, Todd H. Baron, Michelle A. Anderson, Subhas Banerjee, Jason A. Dominitz, Robert D. Fanelli, S. Ian Gan, M. Edwyn Harrison, Steven O. Ikenberry, Bo Shen, Leslie Stewart, Khalid Khan, John J. Vargo

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• Technology Status Evaluation Report

  • ·Endoscopic banding devices

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    Prepared by: ASGE Technology Committee, Julia Liu, Bret T. Petersen, William M. Tierney, Ram Chuttani, James A. DiSario, Joseph M.B. Coffie, Daniel S. Mishkin, Raj J. Shah, Lehel Somogyi, Louis Michel Wong Kee Song

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• Editorial

  • ·A new dimension for GIE: the authors’ interview series

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    George Triadafilopoulos

     

• Original Articles

  • ·Death after PEG: results of the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death

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    Simon D. Johnston, Tony C.K. Tham, Marisa Mason

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  • ·Predicting life expectancy before percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy placement: a lesson in futility or an exercise of injustice?

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    Stephen A. McClave, Mark H. Delegge

    
  • ·Treatment of gastric antral vascular ectasia (watermelon stomach) with endoscopic band ligation

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    Christopher D. Wells, M. Edwyn Harrison, Suryakanth R. Gurudu, Michael D. Crowell, Thomas J. Byrne, Giovanni DePetris, Virender K. Sharma

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  • ·EUS and/or EUS-guided FNA in patients with CT and/or magnetic resonance imaging findings of enlarged pancreatic head or dilated pancreatic duct with or without a dilated common bile duct

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    Banke Agarwal, Naveen B. Krishna, Jennifer L. Labundy, Rizwan Safdar, Ece I. Akduman

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  • ·Abnormal pancreatic imaging: ambiguity necessitates EUS

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    Gary Reiss, Sanjay Ramrakhiani

    
  • ·Pre-ERCP infusion of semapimod, a mitogen-activated protein kinases inhibitor, lowers post-ERCP hyperamylasemia but not pancreatitis incidence

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    David J. van Westerloo, Erik A. Rauws, Daan Hommes, Alex F. de Vos, Tom van der Poll, Barbara L. Powers, Paul Fockens, Marcel G.W. Dijkgraaf, Marco J. Bruno

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  • ·Small-bowel imaging in Crohn’s disease: a prospective, blinded, 4-way comparison trial

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    Craig A. Solem, Edward V. Loftus, Joel G. Fletcher, Todd H. Baron, Christopher J. Gostout, Bret T. Petersen, William J. Tremaine, Laurence J. Egan, William A. Faubion, Kenneth W. Schroeder, Darrell S. Pardi, Karen A. Hanson, Debra A. Jewell, John M. Barlow, Jeff L. Fidler, James E. Huprich, C. Daniel Johnson, W. Scott Harmsen, Alan R. Zinsmeister, William J. Sandborn

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  • ·How good is capsule endoscopy for detection of periampullary lesions? Results of a tertiary-referral center

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    John O. Clarke, Samuel A. Giday, Priscilla Magno, Eun Ji Shin, Jonathan M. Buscaglia, Sanjay B. Jagannath, Gerard E. Mullin

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  • ·Jumbo forceps are superior to standard large-capacity forceps in obtaining diagnostically adequate inflammatory bowel disease surveillance biopsy specimens

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    B. Joseph Elmunzer, Peter D.R. Higgins, Yong M. Kwon, Christopher Golembeski, Joel K. Greenson, Sheryl J. Korsnes, Grace H. Elta

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  • ·Jumbo or large-capacity forceps for inflammatory bowel disease surveillance: is it truly important or just a marketing ploy?

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    Robert Enns

    
  • ·Evaluation of autofluorescence colonoscopy for the detection and diagnosis of colonic polyps

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    Audrey L. McCallum, John T. Jenkins, Derek Gillen, Richard G. Molloy

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  • ·Autofluorescence colonoscopy: a green light on the long road to “real-time” histology

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    William R. Kessler

    
  • ·A randomized, controlled, double-blind trial of the adjunct use of tegaserod in whole-dose or split-dose polyethylene glycol electrolyte solution for colonoscopy preparation

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    Heitham Abdul-Baki, Jana G. Hashash, Ihab I. ElHajj, Cecilio Azar, Lara El Zahabi, Fadi H. Mourad, Kassem A. Barada, Ala I. Sharara

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  • ·Endoscopic “no hole” full-thickness biopsy of the stomach to detect myenteric ganglia

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    Elizabeth Rajan, Christopher J. Gostout, Matthew S. Lurken, Nicholas J. Talley, Giles R. Locke, Lawrence A. Szarka, Kazuki Sumiyama, Timothy A. Bakken, Gary J. Stoltz, Mary A. Knipschield, Gianrico Farrugia

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  • ·Full-thickness endoscopic sampling of the stomach wall as a technique to manage gastroparesis

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    William J. Snape

    
  • ·Infectious implications in the porcine model of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) with PEG-tube closure: a quantitative bacteriologic study

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    Michael F. McGee, Jeffrey M. Marks, Raymond P. Onders, Amitabh Chak, Michael J. Rosen, Christina P. Williams, Judy Jin, Steve J. Schomisch, Jeffrey L. Ponsky, (the Case Advanced Surgical Endoscopy Team [CASE-T])

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  • ·Intravenous application of fluorescein for confocal laser scanning microscopy: evaluation of contrast dynamics and image quality with increasing injection-to-imaging time

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    Valentin Becker, Stefan von Delius, Monther Bajbouj, Artemisia Karagianni, Roland M. Schmid, Alexander Meining

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  • ·Endoscopic closure of colon perforation compared to surgery in a porcine model: a randomized controlled trial (with videos)

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    Gottumukkala S. Raju, Annette Fritscher-Ravens, Richard I. Rothstein, Paul Swain, Andres Gelrud, Ijaz Ahmed, Guillermo Gomez, Markus Winny, Thomas Sonnanstine, Maria Bergström, Per-Ola Park

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• CME Examination

  • ·Continuing Medical Examination Exam: August 2008

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    Todd H. Baron, Brenna C. Bounds, Robert Sedlack, Allan P. Weston, G.S. Raju, George Triadafilopoulos

    

• The Fellows' Corner

  • ·Applying for therapeutic endoscopy fellowship

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    Mouen Khashab, Mohammad Al-Haddad, Evan Fogel

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• Review Article

  • ·Endoscopic clipping for acute nonvariceal upper-GI bleeding: a meta-analysis and critical appraisal of randomized controlled trials

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    Yuhong Yuan, Changcheng Wang, Richard H. Hunt

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• New Methods

  • ·Optimal band imaging system: a new tool for enhancing the duodenal villous pattern in celiac disease

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    Giovanni Cammarota, Paola Cesaro, Alessia Cazzato, Paolo Fedeli, Lucia Sparano, Fabio M. Vecchio, Luigi M. Larocca, Giovanni Gasbarrini

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  • ·A new diagnostic endoscopic tool for autoimmune pancreatitis

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    Terumi Kamisawa, Yuyang Tu, Naoto Egawa, Kouji Tsuruta, Atsutake Okamoto

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  • ·Use of a novel transluminal balloon accessotome in transmural drainage of pancreatic pseudocyst (with video)

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    D. Nageshwar Reddy, Rajesh Gupta, Sandeep Lakhtakia, Prasun K. Jalal, G. Venkat Rao

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  • ·Percutaneously assisted endoscopic surgery using a new PEG-minitrocar for advanced endoscopic submucosal dissection (with videos)

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    Stefan von Delius, Artemisia Karagianni, Claus Hann von Weyhern, Hubertus Feussner, Tibor Schuster, Roland M. Schmid, Eckart Frimberger

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• At the Focal Point

  • ·Cytomegalovirus gastritis

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    Christopher E. McGowan, James Carlsten, Baishali Bhattacharya

     
  • ·Double-balloon enteroscopic treatment for bleeding jejunal diverticulum

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    Hsu-Heng Yen, Yang-Yuan Chen, Maw-Soan Soon

     
  • ·Confocal endomicroscopic aspects in Whipple’s disease

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    Alessandro Zambelli, Vincenzo Villanacci, Elisabetta Buscarini, Luca Albarello, Luigi Viardi, Ottavio di Stefano, Gabrio Bassotti

     
  • ·Severe right-sided colitis with asymptomatic multiple large liver abscesses: unusual presentation of amebiasis

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    Surinder S. Rana, Deepak K. Bhasin, Varun Mehta, Kartar Singh, Riatmbhra Nada

     
  • ·In vivo diagnosis of whipworm (Trichuris trichiura) with high-definition magnifying colonoscope (with video)

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    Hiroki Taguchi, Hironori Yamamoto, Tomohiko Miyata, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Keijiro Sunada, Kentaro Sugano

      
  • ·Double balloon discovers double capsules

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    Evin J. McCabe, Gregory B. Haber, David M. Poppers, Eric S. Rosen, Ryan M. O’Connor

     

• Case Studies

  • ·Safety of conventional and wireless capsule endoscopy in patients supported with nonpulsatile axial flow Heart-Mate II left ventricular assist device

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    Adel Y. Daas, Michael B. Small, Haim Pinkas, Patrick G. Brady

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  • ·Endoscopic resection of minor papilla adenomas (with video)

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    Jessica M. Trevino, C. Mel Wilcox, Shyam Varadarajulu

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• Brief Reports

  • ·Esophageal mucosal bridges associated with idiopathic esophageal ulcer treated with argon plasma coagulation

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    Matthew Mukherjee, Judy Oh, Adnan Khdair, Irwin Grosman

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  • ·EUS diagnosis of a left gastric artery pseudoaneurysm and aneurysmogastric fistula seen with a massive GI hemorrhage (with video)

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    Sushil Falodia, Pramod K. Garg, Vikram Bhatia, Vijay Ramachandran, Nihar Ranjan Dash, Deep N. Srivastava

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  • ·Gastroventricular fistula in a patient with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (with video)

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    Jose Vega-Peralta, Joseph Van Camp, Martin Freeman

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  • ·Pancreatic hydrocele: an unusual manifestation of severe acute pancreatitis

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    Muslim Atiq, Irfan Budhani, Richard Snyder, Kamran Safdar, Adeel Khan, Shailendra Chauhan

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  • ·Diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis with intraductal biliary biopsy and treatment of stricture with serial placement of multiple biliary stents

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    Sina Alexander, Michael J. Bourke, Stephen J. Williams, Adam Bailey, Anthony Gill, James G. Kench

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  • ·Narrow-band imaging system with magnifying endoscopy for rectal amyloidosis

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    Yee Tak Hui, Ting Wa Lam, Polly Woon Yee Lam, Wendy Ho Yan Wu, Wai Ming Lam

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Self-expanding plastic stents in benign esophageal strictures

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    Shyam Menon

    
  • ·Plastic stents in the treatment of benign esophageal conditions

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    Pierre Eisendrath, Jacques Devière

    
  • ·Response:

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    Todd H. Baron

    
  • ·Is it really necessary to close gastrostomy in NOTES? A lesson learned from laparoscopic intragastric surgery

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    Kiyokazu Nakajima, Yoshihito Souma, Shuichi Ohashi, Toshirou Nishida

    
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    Matthew T. Moyer, Eric Pauli, Randy Haluck, Abraham Mathew

    
  • ·Diabetes mellitus in patients with autoimmune pancreatitis: an often overlooked complication

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    Shailendra Kapoor

    
  • ·Is there a role for intravenous omeprazole in patients with duodenal diverticular bleeding after successful initial endoscopic hemostasis?

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    Guan-Ying Tseng, Tien-Kuei Jeng, Hsio-Bai Yang, Hwai-Jeng Lin

    
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    Satoru Kakizaki, Yasuhiro Onozato

    
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    Hsu-Heng Yen

    
  • ·Measuring colonoscopy performance among gastroenterology trainees

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    Gavin C. Harewood, Jan Leyden

    
  • ·False-positive nonlifting sign

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    Nozomu Kobayashi, Yutaka Saito, Takahisa Matsuda, Kuang-I. Fu

    
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    Kyung Su Han, Dae Kyung Sohn, Hee Jin Chang

    

• News & Notices

  • ·News & notices

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