EUS-Guided Pancreatic Duct Drainage Manuel Perez-Miranda, MD, PhD Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided pancreatic duct drainage (EUS-PD) is a second-line procedure that allows drainage of the pancreatic duct when ERCP, the primary…
EUS-Guided Biliary Drainage Woo Hyun Paik, MD, PhD Do Hyun Park, MD, PhD Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has emerged as an alternative to percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD),…
EUS-Guided Drainage of Pancreatic Collections and Necrosectomy Ryan Law, DO Todd H. Baron, MD Injury to the pancreas regardless of the etiology results in parenchymal inflammation, often leading to disruption…
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Liver Biopsy Enad Dawod, MD Jose M. Nieto, DO, AGAF, FACP, FACG, FASGE Liver pathology falls on a very wide spectrum, which makes it difficult to distinguish specific…
Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration and Biopsy Melinda C. Rogers, MD V. Raman Muthusamy, MD Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) was first introduced in 1980 as a transluminal imaging modality and has…
Basics of Endoscopic Ultrasound Monique T. Barakat, MD Subhas Banerjee, MD Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is a procedure which allows sonographic imaging of the luminal gastrointestinal (GI) tract together with surrounding…
Management of Biliary and Pancreatic Ductal Obstruction: Endoprosthesis and Nasobiliary/Nasopancreatic Drain Placement Nadav Sahar, MD Richard A. Kozarek, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, FACP Therapeutic endoscopy has become the mainstay for…
Management of Biliary Lithiasis Sean Bhalla, MD Ryan Law, DO Over 20 million Americans are estimated to have gallbladder disease.1 Choledocholithiasis has been estimated to be present in 10% to…
Endoscopic Sphincterotomy Todd H. Baron, MD Endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) is often used as a primary therapeutic modality or a secondary tool to facilitate minimally invasive management of a variety of…
Basics of ERCP Larissa Fujii-Lau, MD Since endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) was first introduced in 1968 and endoscopic sphincterotomy in 1974, it has become the standard of care in the…
