Marvin Ryou

SOCIETY: ASGE

Laparoscopic fundoplication in patients with a history of lung transplant has an average length of stay (LOS) of 3 days with a 30-day readmission rate of 25%, which is significantly worse compared to the non-lung transplant population…

BACKGROUND: Endoscopic Snare Papillectomy (ESP) is a minimally invasive option for the management of noninvasive ampullary adenomas…

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Background: Current non-invasive tests (NITs) utilized to screen and predict liver fibrosis were developed in predominantly Caucasian populations, and their performance in non-Caucasians is not well known…

BACKGROUND: Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is associated with increased mortality, falls, and frequent hospitalizations. Patient reported outcomes (PROs) are useful tools to assess health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures such as impairment of sleep, cognition, or activity…

INTRODUCTION: Artificial Intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) show promise in medicine, however general-purpose AI models underperform on clinical tasks. Recognizing this potential, our team developed a specialty-specific multi-task clinical LLM: GastroGPT (Fig 1)…

Endoscopic closure techniques have a rapidly emerging role in the management of transmural gastrointestinal defects and have been shown to be effective and safe…

INTRODUCTION: Most endoscopists perform ERCP with only a side-viewing duodenoscope. We hypothesize significant gastrointestinal findings are missed due to the side-viewing design of the duodenoscope and that at least a subset of patients would benefit from concomitant forward-viewing exam (i.e…

INTRODUCTION: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is an effective treatment for patients suffering from obesity and concomitant type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Nevertheless, less than 2% of eligible patients choose to undergo the surgery…

A novel, self-assembling peptide hydrogel (PuraStat, 3D Matrix, Tokyo, Japan) has recently been FDA-approved with dual indications for hemostasis and wound healing…

GASTRIC VARICES: THE CASE FOR EUS-GUIDED THERAPY