Keith Obstein

SOCIETY: ASGE

BACKGROUND: Recently, high rates of post-peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) gastroesophageal reflux disease have been reported. A novel POEM with fundoplication (POEM-F) has been described to address this issue…

BACKGROUND: Endoscopic defect closure have been applied to reduce the adverse events rate after colorectal endoscopic submucosa dissection (ESD). As for the suturing device, the closure has usually been performed using through-the-scope clips (TTSC)…

Background: Use of magnetic fields for endoscope actuation has been promising—as the endoscope can be pulled from its front. Our team developed a novel magnetic flexible endoscope (MFE) that uses magnetic field sensing, robotic control, and real-time image processing for colonoscopy (CLS)…