LAMS have the right shape for select strictures (pyloric, etc).
Backload a LAMS stent for easier deployment across an enteral stricture
Line it up, fold it, pull into channel
Locate stricture and use “push” to deploy.
#GITwitter
#Endoscopy
#MedEd
#SoMe4Surgery
#medicine
Celebrating anniversary of multi-d foregut program we established & having personally done over 100 POEM over the last 18 months or so
POEM tips & tricks voL 1
Use, share, learn - happy to connect with others around designing a program, proctoring etc
#GITwitter
#esophagus
“Classics in endoscopy” series
Station 1 EUS. Some 🔑 points:
1- trace aorta and find first vessel (celiac) then next (sma)
2 follow celiac as it splits, see splint artery to find body/tail pancreas
3- even without very altered anatomy knowing the vessels helps you get oriented
Can we predict post ERCP pancreatitis by amylase & lipase levels?
I was fascinated working with
@HemantGoyalMD
@SChandanMD
@AbhilashPerise1
& the group on this question.
🔑: lipase level < 3 x ULN within 2 to 4 hours of ERCP
open access publication:
?Paradigm changer
FDA approves device for EUS Guided gallbladder drainage 🔥🔥
A major milestone for field of intervetional Endsocopy & new minimally invasive options for patients
Link to our prospective FDA trial here:
#Medicine
#GITwitter
#Endoscopy
Classics in Endsocopy series:
Ulcerated nodule on endoscopy.. wide differential including
#GIST
&
#neuroendocrine
tumor (NET) .. EUS can help diagnosis, stage & tx plan. This is growing from layer 3 - submucosa meaning non-muscular origin
Bx proven NET
T1N0
#oncology
#GITwitter
“Classics in endoscopy” series;
Views of the head of the pancreas from the duodenal bulb. First shown w radial Eus and called “stack sign” seeing common bile duct, panc duct and portal vein in one view - good image of pancreatic head.
#eus
#pancreas
#endoscopy
#meded
#GITwitter
Endoscopic full thickness resection using hybrid knife and suturing For scarred adenoma that does not lift. Lesion too big for FTRD device
Essentially a “freehand”TAMIS. Negative margins. No carcinoma invasion. No open incisions. Quick recovery.
#innovation
#GITwitter
#endoscopy
EUS Core liver biopsy
>3 cm core
Data supports:
✅wet suction rather than slow pull
✅Heparinized needle
✅3 rather than 1 actuation
✅use stylet to keep specimen intact
✅19 rather than 22
✅FNB needle rather than FNA
#Hepatology
#Liver
#Endoscopy
#MedEd
#GITwitter
Pig model when we tested settings for ERBE Vio 3.
PreciseSECT setting
Use electrosurgery principles to your advantage:
➡️side of blade to increase surface area
➡️go slowly through the vessel for coag effect (algorithm will do the work)
Say bye to coagrasper 😉
#Meded
#endoscopy
“The most beautiful part about any craft is starting at the beginning. That is the most purest form of artistry bc you have to learn the building blocks. Every little step. The championship are a byproduct of those things.” -Kobe Bryant
Applies to the fundamentals of EMR to ESD
Day 1 with our new interventional
#endoscopy
fellow
@thayern
Case 1 - EDGE on roux-en-y w ercp
Case 2 - mediastinal EUS
Case 3 - pancreas Eus/ercp
Case 4 - rfa esophagus
On and on..
welcome brother
#mentorship
#service
to patients, research, science, commitment ✊🏽
First use in the United States of a novel ESD knife - the ProdGI multifunctional knife 🔪.. moved a from insulated tip to forward cutting.
We found it to be very useful in complex cases changing resection approach in real time.
#innovation
#endoscopy
#GITwitter
@EndoscopyNow
Classics in endoscopy:
<2cm pancreatic mass - adenocarcinoma. Good to see CT vs EUS vs MRI imaging of the same lesion. Being able to reconstruct 3D vs 2D mentally helps grow EUS skills and expand your ability to perform interventions outside gi tract.
#eus
#gitwitter
#meded
#gi
Hot off the press 🔥
Using glucagon w ERCP?
Glucagon in ERCP published in EIO:
➡️less post op ERCP SAE with use
➡️no significant hyperglycemia
Honored to mentor rising ⭐️s our advanced endoscopy fellow
@AbhilashPerise1
&
@HemantGoyalMD
👏👏
#MedEdChat
Stops signs at end of POEM tunnel:
Spindle veins, large vessels - sometimes coming off gastric artery
& reorganization of muscle layer which is the cardia of the stomach for posterior approach.
#MedEd
#endoscopy
#some4surgery
Tips & tricks:
#GIfellows
this is one of the lesions to avoid putting a needle in on EUS
On endoscopy it presented at subepethelial lesion with normal mucosa in Esophagus
This is a duplication cyst
#MedEd
#Endoscopy
#GITwitter
Honor to match a top choice candidate for 2023 interventional endoscopy!
Ricardo Marrero-Torres - San Juan, 🇵🇷
His goal of returning to PR & providing enhanced/novel services, ongoing research, academic career & services to his community truly moved me 🙏
#latinos
#GItwitter
Going to start posting up some day to day “classic findings.” When are you performing a
#eus
for dilated bile duct or abnormal liver function test and you see this you have to just smile 😊 stone in the bile duct with acoustic shadowing. Time for
#ERCP
.
#MedEd
#GITwitter
Tip 1- important for all endoscopists to understand pathology classification of Haggits score. We need to know endoscopic and pathology classifications. See picture and link to a nice review article.
“Classic endoscopy series” Duodenal lesion ..1st step: endoscopic evaluation. Start with basics: what segment of duodenum, location relative to ampulla, %circumference/size, Paris classification, pit pattern, look for ?warnings signs of deep invasion. Can you name these? resect?
Now you see it,
Now you don’t.
Endoscopic suturing of large ESD defect.
The ability to perform full thickness suturing open doors ..
& allows for minimally invasive salvage therapies as well as closure of post resection defects.
2-0 polypropylene running mattress used here
Last months with my Interventional endoscopy fellow
@RicardoJJMK
I always wonder if I did a good enough job?
➡️ercp
➡️EUS In chest / abdomen + TX
➡️suturing
➡️EMR / Endoluminal
➡️develop leadership and confidence
Life long relationship ✔️
He will be back in
#PuertoRico
Kudo, NICE, Paris classification all play a role in evaluation prior to endoscopic resection.
Learn about that and more on
@EndoscopyNow
part 1 advances in endoscopic resection - EMR to ESD
Tomorrow 7pm eastern
Register free
#GITwitter
#MedTwitter
POEM (per oral endoscopic myotomy) on a busy 3rd space day.
As a treatment for achalasia, we dissect the Esopahgeal muscle & GE junction through creation of a tunnel
Can you see the wall layers ?
See picture and then answers
#GITwitter
#MedEd
The mentor-mentee relationship & Working together in a teaching program is truly amazing.
Interventional
#endoscopy
fellowship
Congratulations to
@thayern
🎉
Carrying on our traditions as he moves forward to share his new skills w and serve patients
#GITwitter
#MedEd
Congratulations to our new Advanced
#Endoscopy
fellow
Ricardo Marrero-Torres
Representing
#puertorico
week 1- multiple spyglass, ercp, lots of EUS, esophageal sent, colon emr hands-on!
Also participated in EUS gb and cystgastrostomy
Hard work, bright future 🌟
#GITwitter
With increase of
#endoscopy
in the US, interventional &
#gioncology
specialties get referrals for incidental
#neuroendocrine
tumors of duodenum.
Can be scary for patients but important to stage & review & counsel on limited Risks & options with 1 cm and less.
#cancer
#oncology
EUS guided trangastric paracentesis and EUS guided peritoneal metastasis biopsy when found unexpectedly during cancer workup allows for comprehensive staging, improves expedited workup, and can reduce cost
#Cancer
#oncology
#GITwitter
#endoscopy
#Meded
(1/3) Gallbladder polyp - seen on EUS + abdominal US
Keys 🔑 to know for your patients:
➡️ 4% to 7% of adults may develop gallbladder polyps.
➡️ @ 5% of these are the kind that could potentially turn into cancer.
#MedEd
#GITwitter
#gallbladder
#medicine
My attending’s view of the advanced fellow doing an Axios for pseudocyst after doing pancreatoscopy for MD ipmn,
#ercp
lithotripsy, Axios stent removal, colon emr and diagnostic
#EUS
already this AM
Mentoring
Sponsoring
Pride in those who will carry care for our patients forward
In honor of gi
#asco
@ASCO
@AmerGastroAssn
Patient saw myself and the amazing
@UzmaSiddiquiMD
and our multi-d teams
Bx- adenocarcinoma
EUS: T1, N0
No nodes or met on PET or CT
?esophagectomy or ESD
We - the patient & multi-d teams - chose ESD.
Path: T1a, negative margins
1/2 Ultra short segment Barrets - was on surveillance - sent to me for 2nd opinion staging and possible treatment by ESD
-Mod diff adenocarcinoma of esophagus/GE junction on bx
-Normal CT chest.
👀 at subtlety of endoscopic view (early mass noted) and impact of EUS
#oncology
Duodenal EMR
-Highest risk location for complications
-Need to know location relative to ampulla
1- cold or hot ?
2- what electrosurgery settings do you use
3- thermal ablation of edges ?
4- closure?
*case of sporadic adenoma attached
#GITwitter
#endoscopy
#MedEd
#gi
All current, incoming and applying interventional
#endoscopy
#fellows
- this is a must attend event for DDW !!!
Connect with your specialty
Save the date. The committees will soon be soliciting video presentations on the 8 categories
#gitwitter
#GItwitter
#MedEd
#GIfellows
EUS image of Side branch IPMN
Note the subtle side branch connection!!
All markers lined up w BD-IPMN in this case
✅Molecular markers + for KRAS & GNAS
✅glucose ⬇️ low
✅mucin positive (see thick clear aspirate)
#GITwitter
#Pancreas
#Endoscopy
#MedEd
@som_krishna
#Eus
Power of EUS for locoregional staging of Esopahgeal cancer. We load EUS images to PACS to review at tumor board by multi-d team along w ct/mri/PET. T4b Esopahgeal cancer abuts aorta w at least focal margin adventitia compromise
#asco
#oncology
#eus
#gi
#cancer
#MedEd
#MedTwitter
Locally advanced pancreatic cancer with obstructive jaundice bili>5 in the era of neoadjuvant approach for pancreatic
#cancer
what’s you / your centers preferred choice of biliary drainage?
-plastic stent
-covered metal stent
-other ?
#GITwitter
#oncology
#surgonc
Longer common channel seen in roux- en-y
#ERCP
after removal of metal stent.
Good to know differences & definitions vs:
-Anomalous PB junction (>15mm)
-choledochal cyst
Novel treatments = novel problems
Complex case >1 year out from EUS guided gastric varices coiling. Small coil seen on video on limited residual gastric varix.
What would you do next?
#endovascular
#endohepatology
#EUS
therapeutics
#endoscopy
Spindle veins!
The sign that you are at the GE junction when operating in 3rd space for POEM or seen with ESD for GEJ carcinomas and other lesions.
Keep a look out for this landmark.
#Endoscopy
#ESD
#endosurgery
Complex ESD.
Hemicircumferential adenoma.
BX by referring showing
HGD Tubullovillous adenoma: approach- en bloc resection without full thickness to see sm for diagnostic and curative intent..
Patient home same day. Asymptomatic with negative margins and no SM involvement
The “classic findings��� Eus series. What does pneumonbilia look like on EUS?? Bright white flecks, some times shadowing. Here you can see the level of detail Eus provides in the liver. Worth seeing CT correlate to get an appreciation of both for learning.
#eus
#meded
#GITwitter
FITE -
Foundation for Interventional Endoscopy
This group of all ⭐️leaders !!
The energy, the vision.. creating universal standards for training and proficiency, a platform for research/innovation & marching towards a nationally recognized subspecialty
#endoscopy
#GITwitter
What NOT to do - tattoo placed right on an adenoma sent for EMR.
Here is post resection.
SM has tattoo .. great job by our advanced fellow
@thayern
who is getting quite good at handling these !!
Tattoo is preferred on opposite wall or at least 3 cm away
#GITwitter
#MedEd
ESD in stage 1 esophageal cancer.
Curative ESD for resection of a proximal Esopahgeal T1a squamous cell carcinoma who has a clip in situ from a prior post biopsy bleed when referred.
We were kept dissection at SM3.
#endoscopy
#esd
#gitwitter
#oncology
#cancer
2nd session of Ablation with EUS rfa probe of neuroendocrine panc tumor. Reduced from 2cm after 1 treatment. Refused surgery. We 1st showed our data in 2015. Using different probe on this trial. Likely has a role <2cm pnet. Some good data by
@DrLakhtakia
. Need more studies
Acute on chronic
#pancreatitis
w multiple pseudocysts. External drains placed & referred for ongoing drainage.
Placed and upsized to 10fr. Drain out put resolved.
Patient doing great.
>80% efficacy of PD stents for PD leak in pancreatitis. Nice review:
Bilateral stents for nonresectable cholangiocarcinoma & s/p rfa monotherapy (refused chemo)
3yrs out, stable
Lots of ❓ to be guided by data & more studies underway:
➡️bilateral vs unilateral stent in era of immunotherapy
➡️value of ERCP RFA - more than just plumbing (immune?)
Post myotomy endoflip in patients undergoing POEM. I assume others are doing this universally before and after. In addition to other techniques. I found myself extending the myotomy on 2 occasions over the past few months prior to closing the tunnel. Personalized
#medicine
#gi
Pay it forward …
Generations of interventional endoscopy fellows & now attendings I have had the honor of mentoring
I’m so blessed to have an opportunity to be part of this sisterhood/brotherhood. Research, teaching, program building, patient care..
we are one
#GITwitter
Classics in Endsocopy - radial view of the mediastinum (hopefully it’s not a dying art). Can you name structures? Some tips:
1- orient spine to 6 o’clock
2- Aorta to 4-5 o’clock
3- correlate structures on Eus to centimeters from the incisors
#eus
#ebus
#chest
#SoMe
#GITwitter
Classics in endoscopy series;
EUS is the best modality for high res view of wall of abdominal viscera.
Know wall layers on EUS as they determine differential diagnosis.
Layer 2 & 4 are muscle:
So leimyoma, GIST etc
#oncology
#cancer
#gitwitter
#gi
#surgery
#Meded
#radiology
🔥off the press.
Our article on use of AI in pancreaticobiliary/ cancer related endoscopy - adding to a body of work.
AI is one 🔑 tech to 👀
Congratulations to
@HemantGoyalMD
@AbhilashPerise1
@bentharian
& the amazing research team.
#MedTwitter
Honored to so a plenary oral report on our phase II getting R0 resection after locally advanced Eus guided nanoparticle injection for locally advanced pancreatic cancer at
@AmCollegeGastro
! Multi-D treatment for cancer care can change the future.
@ASCO
“Classic images in endoscopy series”:
Weight loss, vague abdominal pain, Normal labs now. Normal standard CT 2 months back.
EUS shows abrupt ductal dilation behind a small T1 mass. Always trace a dilated duct & 👀 for change
#endoscopy
#eus
#gi
#pancreas
#oncology
#gitwitter
GASTRIC GIST - downsized by neoadjuvant approach and resected by STER (submucosal tunnelling endoscopic resection). No open incision. Shrunk from
>3cm. Multi-d approach by my gi med Onc partner
@realbowtiedoc
. Appreciate the Innovation.
#gioncology
#endoscopy
#GITwitter
April is Esopahgeal Cancer awareness month
👉 During the 1960-70s, only about 5% of patients survived at least 5 years after being diagnosed. Now, 19-20% of patients survive at least 5 years after diagnosis
👉20-21k new cases this year in USA, >16k deaths
Facts all month!
Share!
Pod 3 from cholecystectomy patient comes to ER with abdominal pain, abdominal echymosis, normal lfts, and wbc 13. Afebrile. Some imaging performed. Ercp Cholangiogram shows this: what do you see? What’s the treatment ?
#medtwitter
#MedEd
#GITwitter
#ercp
#ScopingSundays
"Management of Gastric Polyps" on Sunday February 20 at 2 PM EST
Proud to be joining
@BalissMichelle
&
@NumanLaith
Learn concepts like
-endoscopic recognition of the lesion
-type of gastric polyps
-what to bx and what to EUS
-What to resect?
& more
#GITwitter
School is in session!!
Professor Jirapinyo dropping science on the hands on lab at the WISE course!!
😊👏
Countless hands on labs done with
@MetabolicEndo
. Love to teach endoscopy, and help people explore new technologies and techniques.
#GITwitter
Welcome to our new advanced endoscopy fellow.
@AbhilashPerise1
Day 1 -multiple cellvizio, multiple rfa.
did cryoablation. did an ERCP in a diverticulum a J shaped stomach. multiple EUS & engaged in Eus core liver biopsy. Nothing greater than opening doors and mentoring!