Despite years of professional guidance discouraging doctors from performing routine endoscopy for heartburn?known medically as gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD?new national insights data from ...

The investigational endoscopic procedure may help patients maintain weight loss or lose more weight 3 months after GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy discontinuation.

During a stomach biopsy an endoscope is used to take tissue samples from the digestive tract to help find the cause of symptoms. Common symptoms that might need a stomach biopsy include heartburn, ...

Airway management is problematic during gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for many reasons. Primarily, endoscopes and airway devices must share the same region of the oropharynx, restricting access when ...

Introduction Sedation is commonly used during upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy to improve tolerability. We have previously reported an association between increased sedation use and lower rates ...

Introduction Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have diminished tolerance for gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures (upper/lower) performed under deep sedation, resulting in increased ...

The ASGE guidelines recommend upper endoscopy for GERD patients with alarm symptoms or risk factors for Barrett esophagus, and post-sleeve gastrectomy or peroral endoscopic myotomy. Meticulous ...

According to a recent Fact.MR report, the global endoscopy ultrasound market is forecast to reach US$ 1.85 Billion by the end of the 2022-2032 forecast period, registering a CAGR of 5.7%. By 2022, the ...

The following is a summary of “Endoscopy and Anesthesia Outcomes Associated with Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Use in Patients Undergoing Outpatient Upper Endoscopy,” published in the ...

aLeeds Gastroenterology Institute, St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK bLeeds Institute of Medical Research at St James's, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Recent analyses of the UK ...