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EUS Liver segments: Images
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Summary of the šŸ†• Ibero-Latin American guidelines on acute pancreatitis in @UEGJournal šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡øšŸŒŽ šŸ“ø: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Preemptive fixation of a jejunal enteral tube extension via novel anchoring system (X-tack Suture) thieme-connect.de/products/e… #GItwitter #MedTwitter #Endoscopy #PEG-J #X-tack
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Complete resection of a duodenal submucosal tumor using clip-and-snare assisted endoscopic submucosal resection thieme-connect.de/products/e… #ESD #Medtwitter #GItwitter #EMR
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Neuroendocrine neoplasms of the stomach. Update on diagnostic criteria, classification, and prognostic markers pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… #GIpath
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Rule of 5 Vein and 1 Artery- Examination of the Portal System from the Stomach - by Prof.Hussein Okasha #gitwitter #medtwitter #EUS youtu.be/o61UHZjUDgs?si=VeQ7… @asianeus @GIscope_updates @EUSandEndoscopy @droktaybulur @EndoscopyNow @NeethiDasu @PrabinSharmaMD
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The GOULASH trial has been published in @Gut_BMJ! Multicentric double-blind RCT in acute pancreatitis High versus gradually increasing energy in enteral nutrition to all comers with AP High energy was detrimental Congrats Katalin and Peter! gut.bmj.com/content/gutjnl/7…

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Star-Loop: a novel, low-cost method of multipoint traction for colonic endoscopic submucosal dissection - VideoGIE videogie.org/article/S2468-4… #ESD #MedTwitter #endoscopy #GITwitter
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Multipoint elastic traction for colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection: Another similar technique #ESD #gitwitter #endoscopy giejournal.org/article/S0016…

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Repositionable Elastic Adaptive Customizable Traction multipoint elastic traction for colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection: 59 consecutive cases #https://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(25)02524-6/fulltext @ASGEendoscopy #ESD #Endoscopy #gitwitter #medtwitter
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I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for nearly 30 years, and a few patterns have become impossible to ignore. One is that many musculoskeletal problems in adults aren’t sudden injuries. They’re the moment when declining capacity and awful metabolic health finally reveals itself. Over the decades your strength fades, muscle mass declines, as your aerobic capacity tanks. Tendons and connective tissues lose substance, stiffness, and resilience. For years the body compensated... quietly. Then one day a knee hurts during a run to get the train, or shoulder aches reaching overhead, or a back tightens lifting something simple. At that point the story usually becomes more about structural damage. An MRI gets ordered. Welcome to high-tech, low-medicine. And the MRI almost always finds something. A meniscus tear. A rotator cuff tear. A disc bulge. Why? Because by midlife these findings are extremely common — even in people with no pain at all. If you have a tear in one shoulder, image the other shoulder... you probably have the same tear there. But I digress. Once the scan appears, the narrative changes. The image becomes the diagnosis. Now the patient believes something is broken, and the focus often shifts to fixing what the MRI shows. What often gets lost in this is the reason the symptoms appeared in the first place. Many so-called ā€œatraumaticā€ orthopedic complaints are not purely mechanical failures. They are the moment when reduced strength, declining tissue capacity, and sometimes broader metabolic health issues finally reach a tipping point. Our tissues change over the decades... get over it. In other words, the MRI didn’t create the problem. Well... it sort of did in this scenario. But all the MRI showed was something that was already there.... because of your age, lifestyle, health and so on. The real driver of symptoms is often loss of physiologic reserve. Less muscle. Less tendon or aerobic resilience. Less tolerance for load, etc. Once the MRI enters the picture, the risk becomes overtreatment. This is probably the number one reason people have surgery. When in many cases the most powerful intervention was never the scan or the procedure. It was rebuilding capacity. Strong muscles stabilize joints. Aerobic fitness improves metabolic health and tissue perfusion. Gradual loading restores tolerance. But people often don't take PT seriously prior to surgery. They often take PT very seriously afterwards. Therefore, PT is probably the reason you feel better, despite the surgery. The irony is that the treatment many people ultimately need is the same thing that might have prevented the problem in the first place. Staying strong. Staying active. Maintaining the reserve that protects our joints/tendons/muscles/abilities as we age.
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Transmural gallbladder drainage using a novel endosonographic-guided suture (with video) - Gastrointestinal Endoscopy #EUS #Suture # giejournal.org/article/S0016…
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Lymph Node characteristics Findings on EUS exam Pink Highlighted LN--> Malignant Yellow Highlighted LN--> Benign EUS byĀ by Dr Vikram Bhatia Source youtu.be/XBY448TO2WU?si=A3vb… #EUS #GItwitter #LN #Malignancy
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Failure of release of the Hot AXIOS distal flange: "handle springing" as a rescue technique thieme-connect.de/products/e… #GItwitter #Metwitter #EUS #AXIOS
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In my state of Pa, 40% of obstetric patients are on Medicaid. -Medicaid uses a single bundled payment for the entire "global obstetric package," which = 13 antepartum visits, delivery, and 6 weeks of postpartum care. Don’t forget all the phone calls and messages. -Reimbursement Amount: from what I found the reimbursement Medicaid pays an obstetrician on average is around $1,100 for that global package including delivery. -now let’s add malpractice: Pa OB average malpractice rate per year is around $70,000, ( up to 100K in cities) BUT, we are the only state in the nation with an additional malpractice payment called MCARE adding another $20k per year to the cost of malpractice we have runaway verdicts out of Philadelphia. We also have Venu shopping, which means you could be in the western part of the state and dragged into Philly for a case. Mind you, we haven’t discussed the stress of going through malpractice plus adding potential travel to it. All of the above is why there are 23out of 67 counties in Pa with no delivery hospital. Well, this is mostly rural, in my county of books, the hospital where I delivered my two children and worked for 13 years, just closed their OB unit because the obstetricians left. With everything that I’ve written above, who could blame them? But who suffers most? The patients. rural.pa.gov/download.cfm?fi…

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Cool. Cut all Medicaid CMS reimbursement rates by 50% and repeal the FMAP formula under Section 1905(b) that gives states lower per capita up to 66% more funding. (Of course we would see just about every rural hospital outside of the wealthy states fail in a manner of 6 months)
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Two-sample FIT as a tool to avert colonoscopy in symptomatic patients: a prospective multicenter cohort study Find the article at: doi.org/10.1055/a-2650-0664 Sarah Moen et al. @ESGE_news
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Generates academic diagrams from text descriptions using Gemini github.com/llmsresearch/pape…
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