Finally an answer to the age old question: Yellow pedal or blue pedal? ❇️ 928 pts w/ EMR of non-pedunculated polyp >20 mm ❇️ Randomized Endocut Q v. Forced coag ❇️ Higher immediate 🩸 in Endocut ❇️ No diff SAE, complete resect, recurrence Link: bit.ly/2UXbE2m

Reduced colonoscopy/endoscopy screen time during the pandemic? #adapt #loopingandreducing

A second spike of cases of SARS-Cov-2 after the first wave may be inevitable. Close contact tracing is needed, as seen below. #ContactTracing

Excellent initiative. #ScopingSundays

Online now at Am J Gastroenterol: Using @IBMWatsonHealth Explorys, we analyzed widespread utilization of #indomethacin and PD stents in high-risk PEP patients over a decade. You may be surprised at what we found, I was. journals.lww.com/ajg/Abstract/9…

Today for the first #MedHxMonday of May #CeliacDiseaseAwareness month let’s take a look at history of #CeliacDisease. We now know about anti-TTG and HLA*DQ2 or 8, the lymphoma risk and IDA But did you know before modern data we had the earliest descriptions from Aretaeus

Excellent #scopingsummary by the team #ScopingSundays. The summary on the controversies in particular is especially interesting.

Its a hit or miss depending on the service managing the patient and time of day. Have always correlated ammonia levels with sarcopenia and overall decline in functional status rather than managing PSE. #MELD-Na/NH3

Join us next Thursday for the kick off of virtual endoscopy grand rounds endosuite.com/videos/cholang…

Join us for this free and exciting lecture by Todd Baron and Kenneth Binmoeller next Thursday June 25th at 1pm EST (New York time). Topic is management of infected pancreatic necrosis. Need to register at endosuite.com/videos/managem….

An omen to how the week will go?

This is my favorite type of ESD! Complex Barretts C7M8 with ++ previous Tx (EMR/RFA) that was definitively resected with a circumferential ESD. Path demonstrated multifocal LGD & HGD with buried Barretts centrally. Pt was dc'd home 24 hrs post procedure. videogie.org/article/S2468-…

Keeping a procedure log during fellowship can seem cumbersome - but it is important! Read on in the next TNG to find out more about how American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) procedure logs can make documentation easier! UConn Health mdedge.com/gihepnews/arti…

Me: Who is the president? Patient (previously in withdrawal): I dont know. Unsure if that qualifies as disorientation or are they more than fully aware of the current national situation. #skipthequestion #lessonlearnt

A prolonged endoscopic necrosectomy. Other than snare/net/basket and lavaging, are there other methods to safely evacuate the cyst? #GITwitter

Made my day: Seeing a 85 YO woman for Ileus. Asked if I could evaluate her abdomen. Her: What are you? A belly man?! Me: Yes, yes thats a much better title! Call me the #bellyman

Important to ask your NAFLD/NASH patients on their definition of using the stairs. After promises that they have been using stairs for months, and on further probing: he has been using stairs to go down and taking the elevators up. #learntmylesson #EidMubarak

When I get a liver call from an outside hospital... #medtwitter #hepatology

Excited and proud of Ayesha Siddique, MD. Please check her work as a fellow lead at the Liver Fellow Network. She will be posting interesting Liver pathology cases every month. #lfn #aasld #GIpath #liverpath #brownpath

Check out our new post on AIH-PSC overlap Osama Siddique Adam L. Booth, MD @d_escobar_mdphd Lizzie Aby, MD liverfellow.org/post/overlap-s…