Gastroenterologist, Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy

Joined January 2022
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🧲Magnetic Compression Anastomosis🧲 1️⃣ 57 y/o male, h/o chronic HBV, LDLT 2️⃣ Double anastomosis, double stricture. Can't traverse in to the posterior duct 3️⃣ Magnets to the rescue #ercp #GITwitter #livertwitter @DouglasAdlerMD @HilarHolzy @MendozaLadd @ThomasBalanis @Stentingwoman @drkeithsiau @SahajRathi @AntonioFaccior6 @DarylRamai @JoanB_Gornals @helpatologist @NEndoscopy @Samanta_JayPGI @Taalamri
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For medical trainees in any interventional or surgical field, I'm not sure there's a more important lesson than this one.
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Yes I think this is the key. For me the levels of advanced EUS has this quite high up: Level 1 - cysts/wons Level 2 - gallbladders (positional) Level 3 - EDGE & GJ Level 4 - CDD Level 5 - HGS and AGS
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Happy to share our latest original article online in Endoscopy @endoscopyjrnl @ESGE_news 😇 "Surgery versus endoscopy with digital single-operator cholangioscopy-guided therapy for Mirizzi syndrome: The SEIZE study" Led by @MBronswijkMD, Joachim, and Prof Schalk Merwe 🙏 ✅ International multicenter study (2005 - 2023) ✅ Mirizzi syndrome (Type II-IV) ✅ dSOC n=176 vs surgery n=114 ✅ Primary outcome: Adverse events Use of dSOC @bostonsci led to (compared to surgery): ⬇️ Overall ADE (10.2% vs 41.2%) ⬇️ severe ADE (1.7% vs 15.8%) ⬇️ lower need of HJ (8.2% vs 25.4%) ⬇️ lower rates of conversion to open surgery (6% vs 22.8%) Congratulations to all co-authors 👏🙏💪 @Samanta_JayPGI @DrLakhtakia @GVanell5 @MarcusHollenba1 @GWebster_endo and others not on X !!! Have a nice read !!!🔗👇 thieme-connect.de/products/e…
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Afferent limp syndrome after pp-Whipple for dCCA causing cholangitis treated with EUS-GE #GITwitter
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Following a masterful live endoscopy demonstration in #PSG2025, an excellent overview on managing malignant hilar strictures by our HPB endoscopy champ @helpatologist @abdullahaabbasi @SyedGerdezi @Srisha_Hebbar @jalpa_devi @drnasirjaved1 @KamaniLubna @DrNazishbutt
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Nothing like a last case of the day Klatskin Tumor.. Ugh 🫤 #GITwitter
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Please check out my Top Tips article in GIE on my best tips and tricks for performing GPOEM. Please retweet. #gastroparesis #gpoem @asge @gie kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrac…

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📢 🔥 Breaking❗️🔥 🦠Organoid-based 🔬 precision medicine 🧫 💉 in #pancreatic #cancer ☄️ 💜November is #Pancreaticcancer awarness month💜 📕Only in @UEGJournal🥰 👉tinyurl.com/46ffjpcb 🟢@my_ueg 🟣@WileyHealth 🔵@Innov_Medicine 🟠@EurPancClub ⚪️@OncoAlert 🔴 #GITwitter
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I think, in all fairness, both are right. Work/life balance is important (although I am not good at it), but medicine is not that kind of job. You have to be committed to your patients and that often translates into long hours to get people taken care of. A tough balance.
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EUS-GV 💉🩸 made rediculously simple by Dr. Malay Sharma at #EUSSkyline. 👉At the Gastroesophageal Junction (GEJ), locate the aorta. 👉Turn clockwise to identify varices. 👉Identify the perforators: 👉Add water for better visualization. 1/3
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20 Sep 2024
Few pictures of today's event : #eusendo2024 #Congress
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19 Sep 2024
It's the end of the first day of the #eusendo congress, a big thank you to everyone !
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Screening Colonoscopy, En-bloc Resection with Underwater EMR of SSA in the right colon. Procedure Duration: 10 mins. Simple, efficient, effective #GITwitter #coloncancer #prevention
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