Endoscopic ultrasound guided gallbladder drainage - is it ready for prime time?

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroenterostomy: Are we ready for prime time?

Interventional endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is currently becoming the less invasive therapeutic approach for the drainage of pancreatic fluid collections, of acute cholecystitis in patients unfit for surgery and for biliary drainage after failed endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. In addition, EUS-guided gastroenterostomy (EUS-GE) has recently emerged as a feasible procedure to ...

Transgastric endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis.

patients with a covered metallic stent (CMS) placed in the bile duct [1,2]. Percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage, which involves an external drainage tube, decreases the ability of the patient to carry out their normal daily activities. Recently, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)guided drainage has been employed successfully for hepatogastrostomy, bilioduodenostomy, and pancreatogastrostomy...

vertical gastric plication: is it ready for prime-time?

EUS-guided pancreatic duct drainage: ready for prime time?

It is very difficult to define today the place of EUS-guided pancreatic duct drainage; in our experience, the best indication is anastomotic The development of interventional EUS has provided better access to the region of the pancreas. Just as pancreatic fluid collections, such as pseudocysts, can be successfully drained from the stomach or duodenum by endoscopic cystenterostomy or cystgastros...

Is pocket ultrasound ready for prime time?

e recent trial by Biais and colleagues adds to a growing body of literature supporting point-of-care ultrasound in the critical care setting [1]. Th e authors demonstrate that, in the hands of two expert users, a newer pocket-sized device was comparable with conventional ultrasound machines for several key echocardiographic parameters. Clearly in the right hands, the VscanTM (GE Healthcare, Wau...