Playing a central role in the modern multidisciplinary management of acute gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage, endoscopy is essential to stratify patient at risk, control active hemorrhage, and prevent first as well as recurrent bleeding. Before endoscopic procedure, antibiotic prophylaxis along with vasoactive medication is now routine practice. Intravenous erythromycin effectively cleanses ...

Background and Aims. There is no consensus so far regarding the optimal endoscopic method for treatment of small rectal neuroendocrine tumor (NET). The aim of this study was to compare treatment efficacy, safety, and procedure time between endoscopic submucosal resection with band ligation (ESMR-L) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). Methods. We conducted a prospective study of patients...

This study compared a new method, endoscopic scleroligation, intravariceal injection sclerotherapy followed by ligation plus extravariceal injection sclerotherapy, with ligation plus extravariceal injection sclerotherapy. Fifty-nine patients with cirrhosis and esophageal varices were treated by endoscopic scleroligation (ESL group, n = 28) or ligation plus extravariceal injection sclerotherapy ...

PURPOSE To compare the effect of endoscopic ligation with that of sclerotherapy in the treatment of patients with bleeding esophageal varices. DATA SOURCES Strategies to identify published and unpublished research included searches of computerized bibliographic and scientific citations, review of citations in relevant primary articles, searches of services providing information on unpublished...

BACKGROUND The most suitable mechanical endoscopic hemostasis for a bleeding Dieulafoy's lesion (DL) is not yet well established. OBJECTIVE To compare the hemostatic efficacy and clinical outcome of endoscopic hemoclip placement (EHP) and endoscopic band ligation (EBL). DESIGN Retrospective, single-center study. SETTING A tertiary-care referral university hospital. PATIENTS Sixty-six pa...

Chronic radiation proctitis is an infrequent complication of pelvic radiotherapy, occurring in 5%–20% of patients [1]. Argon plasma coagulation (APC) is the preferred endoscopic therapy for treatment of chronic radiation proctitis and is considered effective and well tolerated. A 74-year-old man with a history of radical prostatectomy and subsequent radiotherapy 3 years previously was brought t...

Madam, Variceal ligation is the endoscopic procedure of choice to prevent recurrent variceal haemorrhage and eradicate varices 1,2 . Usually it takes 3-4 sessions for the purpose. Multiple band ligators are now available for rapid ligation 3,4 . These ligators do not require overtube or reloading of bands during the procedure and many bands may be deployed by just rotation of the pulley or hand...

OBJECTIVES For esophageal varices, endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy and band ligation have been effectively and frequently used, but these methods were not effective for gastric varices. In gastric varices, because of rich networks of feeding vessels and shunts that may exist in many cases, an effective therapeutic level of sclerosant is difficult to be maintained. Accordingly, we propose a ne...

The endoscopic resection of rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) results in good long-term outcomes [1]. Many techniques for the endoscopic resection of rectal NETs have been described, including polypectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), and recently EMR with band ligation [2], endoscopic submucosal dissection [3], and even transanal endoscopic microsurgery [4]. Underwater endoscopic rese...