Great lecture by our guest speaker Dr. Dan Patel Dan Patel, MD from Vanderbilt Gastroenterology at our monthly Harvard Joint Neurogastroenterology & Motility Conference on esophageal mucosal integrity testing!

🌟Mucosal impedance measures reflect esophageal mucosal integrity
🌟MI contour/mapping…

Celebrating the Top 4 most productive authors in H. pylori and Gastric Cancer!!

Are random esophageal biopsies in patients with dysphagia and normal endoscopy clinically valuable?
In a study of 361 patients on PPI treatment with esophageal dysphagia and normal endoscopy:

1) No difference in biopsy results between those with and without heartburn in…

Do we need to do all the provocative tests recommended by Chicago classification v4.0?

1) Study of 132 patients (65% women). Most frequent indication was dysphagia (46.1%)
2) Most frequent CC v4.0 diagnoses were normal (68.9%), achalasia (15.5%) and IEM (5.3%)
3) Total…

Nicholas Shaheen is inviting you to #Edinburgh for #ISDE2024 , 📅 Sep 22-24. Learn from the best🥉in diseases of the #esophagus #endoscopy #surgery #esophagealcancer
Diseases of the Esophagus Journal OUP Medicine Lorenzo Ferri MD PhD Andre Duarte Dan Patel, MD André Brandalise Flavio Roberto Takeda Anh Nguyen, MD…

For the first time, the Department of Medicine ranked No. 1 in NIH funding by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research. We are grateful for the hard work of our dedicated colleagues who were awarded over $266 million in funding last year.

Always thought that CC v4.0's rec to do provocative maneuvers in all patients is going overboard without any evidence.

Now there is evidence:
-Majority of pts, there is no reclassification of pts from v3.0 to v4.0 outside of IEM. 10 swallows is enough!
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Video of the Week:
Perianal Crohn's Disease by David A. Schwartz, MD, FACG

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David Schwartz Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF

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#Esophagram #ISDE 2024 #YoungISDE #EsophagealHealth #Research #Esophagus #EsophagealCancer ​​ #ISDE esophagus disease ​ #EsophagealSymptoms ​ #Endoscopy ​ #ISDE esophagus ​ #BarrettsEsophagus ​ #Surgery #ISDE ​ #Esophagitis ​ #MedicalConference ​ #ISDE Congress…

Missed out on the 🔥🔥 #ScopingSundays discussion this past weekend on “Luminal Strictures”

Check out the #ScopingSummary from the interactive discussion led by Marina Kim, Ali Khalifa, MD MSc (c) & Dushyant Singh Dahiya, MD!

Special thanks to Muhammad Ali Butt MD for the summary!

Congratulations to Dr. Robin Dalal who was recently appointed Program Director of the Vanderbilt Gastroenterology Fellowship. She also serves as the Program Director for the Advanced IBD Fellowship and is an outstanding educator and clinician!

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📌Save The Date for #ISDE2024 !
The 20th ISDE World Congress for Esophageal Diseases will take place at the Edinburgh International Convention Center (EICC) on September 22-24, 2024.
Abstract Submissions Open January 3!
Read more at isde-congress.net
#EsophagealHealth

Congratulations to everyone who matched today! We’re excited to welcome this talented group of physicians to the Vanderbilt Gastroenterology family! Vanderbilt GME

Fantastic #Endoscopy 📜 in the AJG - The American Journal of Gastroenterology 🔥

Honored to have contributed this piece alongside ⭐️ coauthors

#Complications in endoscopy will happen-but how do we deal

✅ Consent
✅ Disclosure / counseling
✅ Emotional impact
✅ Legal issues
✅ Training

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Timely update to Lyon Consensus for #GERD , now version 2

Interesting updates
- re-look at GERD definition
- Adjunct metrics play larger role
- LA grade B is conclusive evidence
- on-therapy metrics discussed
- approach varies based on sx

#GITwitter

Part II: Colorectal NETS 🧵

70yo Male, referred after screening colonoscopy
Rectum – 12mm subepithelial lesion
Histo
- <2 mitoses/2 sqmm
- Ki67 <3%

What would you do?

Part I: Gastric NET here 👇
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New research - Safety and efficacy of dupilumab for up to 52 weeks in adults & adolescents with eosinophilic oesophagitis - further results from LIBERTY EoE TREET

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#EoE #GITwitter

Management of achalasia has gotten a lot more complicated and correct management depends on appropriate subtyping.  Get up to date on the latest approaches through this engaging plenary at #ISDE2023 .
🕑Sunday, 10 September 2023, 10:45 - 12:00 EDT
👉 isde-congress.net/g47c

Fantastic session to end Day 1 with updates in Constipation, Gastroparesis, and Esophageal dysmotility. VUMC Department of Medicine Dan Patel, MD #ChrisLind #HaleyFiske #StephanieMcAbee . See you all tomorrow for Day 2!