Curbside Consultation in Endoscopy

Dedication Acknowledgments About the Editors Contributing Authors Foreword by Stephen M. Schutz, MD Preface Introduction SECTION I UPPER ENDOSCOPY Question 1 An 81-Year-Old Healthy Male Is Found to Have A 12-cm Long Segment Barrett's Esophagus And Several Tiny Raised Lesions, With Moderate to High Grade Dysplasia in One Location. What Do I Tell The Patient? What Therapy Is Appropriate? Paulo Sakai, MD, PhD, FASGE and Fauze Maluf-Filho, MD, PhD, FASGE Question 2 A 46-Year-Old Female With Cirrhosis Came in With Severe Upper GI Bleeding. Her Proximal Stomach Is Filled With Large Clots and Gastric Varices Are Suspected. How Can I Tell for Certain Endoscopically, and What Is the Treatment? Anne Thai, MD and Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG Question 3 What Are the Essential Tools for Removing Esophagogastric Foreign Bodies, and When Should I Apply These Devices? Luo-wei Wang, MD, PhD and Zhao-shen Li, MD Question 4 You Were Called by the ER Physician Regarding a Female Who Attempted to Commit Suicide by Drinking Toilet Cleaning Solution. There Were Obvious Burns Around the Mouth and Tongue. What Would You Do Next? Rajesh Gupta, MD, DM and D. Nageshwar Reddy, MD, DM, FRCP, DSc Question 5 What Is the Current Recommendation for Endoscopic Surveillance of Barrett's Esophagus, and How Can We Improve the Results With the Current Technologies? Paulo Sakai, MD, PhD, FASGE and Fauze Maluf-Filho, MD, PhD, FASGE Question 6 What Should I Do if I Have Inadvertently Perforated the Viscus During an Endoscopy? Gregory Haber, MD Question 7 What Is the Current Expert Opinion on What Hemostasis Technique to Use in Treating a Visible Vessel or Dieulafoy Lesion? When Should I Involve a Surgeon? Brintha K. Enestvedt, MD, MBA and Michael L. Kochman, MD, FACP Question 8 What Do People Do for the Treatment of Achalasia These Days? Does it Matter if the Symptoms Are Severe or if the Patient Is Elderly? Drew Ingram, MD and Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG Question 9 A 65-Year-Old Male With a Long-Standing GERD Complained of Recent Onset of Progressive Difficulty Swallowing (Especially Solids) and Subjective Weight Loss. How Should I Evaluate the Patient? Emmanuel C. Gorospe, MD, MPH, FACP and Kenneth K. Wang, MD, FACG, AGAF, FASGE Question 10 Several Trips to the ER for a 56-Year-Old Mechanic for SOB and Iron Deficient Anemia Revealed Positive FOBT, but EGD and Colonoscopies Did not Identify the Bleeding Source. He Takes NSAIDs Regularly for Arthritis Pain. Is There a Role for Enteroscopy? Neel K. Mann, MD, MPH Question 11 A 59-Year-Old Professor Had Dyspepsia and Subjective Weight Loss. He Was Treated Previously for H pylori Infection. EGD and Biopsies Showed Chronic Inflammation With Intestinal Metaplasia and One Focal Area of Low-Grade Dysplasia. What Do I Do?. Chun-Ying Wu, MD, PhD, MPH, LL.M., LL.B. and Francis K.L. Chan, MD, FACG Question 12 A 38-Year-Old Mildly Obese Female Presented With GERD Symptoms and Was Found to Have a Persistently Elevated Amylase Level Around 250 Iu/L (Normal < 125) but Normal Lipase. How Should I Manage This Patient? Sooraj Tejaswi, MD, MSPH Question 13 A 35-Year-Old Female Presented With Epigastric Pain, Difficulty Swallowing, and Subjective Fever 1 Month After Gastric Bypass Surgery. She Was Seen in the ER Because of Recent Hematemesis. What Do I Do?. Andrew Yen, MD, FACG and Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG Question 14 A 45-Year-Old Alcoholic Was Admitted With Abdominal Pain, Coffee Ground Emesis, and Mild Anemia. Upper Endoscopy Shows a Few Polypoid Masses in the Gastric Body and Pigmentations in the Antrum. What Should I Do? Sooraj Tejaswi, MD, MSPH Question 15 A 45-Year-Old Patient With Known Hepatitis C Was Admitted Because of Massive Upper GI Bleeding. What Should I Do? Cara Torruellas, MD, MPH and Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG Question 16 Bougienage, Balloon Dilation, Cautery Cutting, Stenting, and Steroid Injection Have All Been Described to Treat Benign Strictures of the GI Tract. Is There a Right Way of Doing This? Jeffrey L. Conklin, MD, FACP SECTION II COLONOSCOPY Question 17 Which of My Patients With Ulcerative Colitis Need \u201cSurveillance\u201d Colonoscopy? How Should the Procedure Be Performed? Michael F. Picco, MD, PhD and Francis A. Farraye, MD, MSc Question 18 I Had a Difficult Colonoscopy and No Matter What I Tried, I Just Could not Reach the Cecum. I Maxed out on IV Sedations and Have no Anesthesiology Support. Can You Help Me? Felix W. Leung, MD, FACG Question 19 A 68-Year-Old Male With Significant Comorbidities Presented With Weight Loss and New Onset Vomiting. Investigation Showed Colonic Obstruction With Poorly Differentiated Adenocarcinoma Involving the Sigmoid Colon. Do I Consider Stenting? Todd H. Baron, MD, FASGE Question 20 A 58-Year-Old Female Underwent a Screening Colonoscopy That Showed a 2.5-cm Flat Polyp in the Proximal Ascending Colon. I Tattooed the Area and Biopsied the Polyp, Which Was Initially Reported as Hyperplastic. What Should I Do? Michael Bourke, MBBS, FRACP and Farzan Fahrtash Bahin, MBBS (Hons) Question 21 What Is the Role of Chromoendoscopy in Screening Colonoscopy? Will it Help to Differentiate Different Types of Polyps, and Is it Useful for Proximal Serrated Polyps? Ihab I. El Hajj, MD, MPH and Charles J. Kahi, MD, MSc Question 22 I Have Trouble Doing a Complete Colonoscopy in Some of My Patients Because of Poor Bowel Preparation. What Should I Do to Insure a Properly Prepared Colon? Han-Mo Chiu, MD, PhD SECTION III ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY Question 23 A 55-Year-Old Veteran Had a Ruptured Gallbladder and a Difficult Cholecystectomy. Postoperatively, the Patient Had Persistent Bile Leakage Despite Months of Multiple Biliary Stenting. What Can I Do? Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG and Catherine Ngo, MD Question 24 A 65-Year-Old Male on Plavix Following a Recent MI and Coronary Stenting Was Seen in the ER With Fever, Pain, Jaundice, and a WBC of 18,000. US Showed a Dilated Bile Duct of 15 mm and a Gallbladder Full of Stones. MRCP Revealed a 15-mm Stone in the Distal CBD. What Would You Do? Wei-Chih Liao, MD, PhD Question 25 What Is the Best Endoscopic Method to Diagnose Pancreatic Cancer? What Is the Best Way to Sample Tissue to Diagnose Suspected Bile Duct Cancer? John G. Lee, MD Question 26 A 68-Year-Old Man With a Klatskin's Tumor Was Referred for Consideration of ERCP and Palliative Drainage. How Should I Manage the Patient? Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG Question 27 An Elderly Patient With Multiple Medical Problems Presents With Acute Pancreatitis and Stones in the Gallbladder. LFTs Show AST of 90 and ALT of 95, Both Declining. MRCP Shows no CBD Stones or Ductal Dilation. Is ERCP Indicated? Stuart Sherman, MD Question 28 I Have a Patient With Biliary-Type Pain, but no Other Evidence of Bile Duct Disease (Normal Diameter Duct on Ultrasound, Normal Liver Function Tests). How Should Such a Patient Be Managed? Martin L. Freeman, MD, FACG, FASGE Question 29 How Can We Accurately Determine the Appropriate Length of the Stent to Use in a Patient With a Bile Duct Stricture? Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG and Erina Foster, MD Question 30 A 56-Year-Old Female Presents With Recurrent RUQ Pain, Impaired LFTs, Elevated ALKP, and Transaminases. She Had a Prior ERCP and Possible Biliary Papillotomy for Similar Complaints but She Does not Recall the Diagnosis. What Should I Do? Joseph Leung, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASGE, MACG