Rungsun Rerknimitr

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…

SOCIETY: ASGE

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data on training benchmarks to define competence in colorectal EMR (C-EMR) among advanced endoscopy trainees (AETs). Previous pilot data from our group demonstrated a relatively low proportion of AETs achieve competence on key cognitive and technical aspects of C-EMR…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Minimal prospective data are available on intraoperative pancreatoscopy (IOP) for the diagnostic work-up of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia (IPMN)…

Introduction: Adenoma per colonoscopy (APC) has recently been proposed as a quality measure for colonoscopy. We evaluated the impact of a novel AI system, compared to standard HD colonoscopy, for APC measurement…

Introduction: Adenoma per colonoscopy (APC) has recently been proposed as a quality measure for colonoscopy. We evaluated the impact of a novel AI system, compared to standard HD colonoscopy, for APC measurement…

Ampullary neoplasia (AN) is a rare disease, but its incidence is increasing…

Training in interventional endoscopy is offered by interventional endoscopy fellowship programs (IEFPs) not accredited by the ACGME. The number of these programs has increased exponentially with a concurrent increase in the breadth and complexity of these procedures…

Training in interventional endoscopy is offered by interventional endoscopy fellowship programs (IEFPs) not accredited by the ACGME. The number of these programs has increased exponentially with a concurrent increase in the breadth and complexity of these procedures…

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroejejunostomy (EUS-GJ) has gained popularity in treating malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO). EUS-GJ has also been used to manage benign GOO with promising technical and clinical success…

Countries with a high prevalence of gastric cancers have well developed programs aimed at identifying and monitoring gastric cancer precursors. However, there is limited information about the performance of such programs in the United States…

BACKGROUND: Pancreatic cancer (PC) features highly proliferative cancer cells and a dense stroma modulating tumor growth. Due to the invasive behavior of PC and the lack of effective treatments, there is a pressing need to develop therapies targeted at tumorigenic events to slow down PC progression…

INTRODUCTION: The ultimate goal of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is to prevent CRC by detecting advanced adenomas that potentially progress to CRC…

INTRODUCTION: It is unclear whether the insertion of an axis-orienting double-pigtail plastic stent (DPS) through biliary lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) in EUS-guided choledochoduodenostomy (CDS) improves the stent patency…

_Objective_: To investigate the clinical relevance of fecal microbial dysbiosis in HCC development

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Screening tools are needed for early detection of NAFLD-fibrosis. We aimed to identify risk factors for NAFLD-fibrosis in the multiethnic population of the U.S. and thus accelerate development of equitable screening tools…

SOCIETY: ASGE

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis of gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM) is highly challenging for trainee endoscopists (TEs) due to subtle mucosal changes with mostly flat lesions which can be easily overlooked…

INTRODUCTION: Due to limited endoscopy resources and personnel in Thailand, a high-volume colonoscopy (50-100 colonoscopies/day) performed within a few days by a group of community endoscopists gathering from different centers has been utilized to clear stranded patients with FIT positive especiall…

Progression of acute pancreatitis to moderate to severe disease is associated with as high as 42% mortality rate. Despite this debilitating outcome, there is currently no specific pharmacotherapy for the disease…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Removal of bile duct stones is typically accomplished by endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC), which requires fluoroscopy. A fluoroscopy-free technique using direct solitary cholangioscopy (DSC) has been described as an alternative to ERC for biliary stone clearance…

INTRODUCTION: Although the data on the efficacy of computer-aided optical detection (CADe) in clinical practice is robust, the data on computer-aided optical diagnosis (CADx) for experts and trainees is still lacking…