The endohepatology program @Parkland/@UTSWGI continues to grow with EUS Portal Pressure Gradient Measurement added to our arsenal w/ EUS Liver Biopsy and gastric varices coil/glue. Always fun to expand the lab's capabilities! Big thanks to @CookMedSurg, @JenWard28, & @IanUSArmy for their support!
👏 Congratulations to Dr. Hadi Abou Zeid on receiving the Presidential Poster Award at #ACG2025 for his outstanding work on upper GI bleed detection in ICU patients using PillSense!
“One-stop shop”— combining variceal screening, upper GI bleeding evaluation, VCE deployment for double-balloon enteroscopy planning, EUS-guided bilobar liver biopsy, elastography, and portal pressure gradient measurement — all in a single comprehensive session.
🥳 Milestone at @uihealthcare! @MunishAshatMD has joined the EchoTip Insight club performing his 1st EUS-guided measurement w/ EchoTip Insight needle. He paired it w/ EchoTip ClearCore 19g EUS Biopsy Needle—two products that go great together. 🤝 Congrats Dr. Ashat and team!
Thanks to Dr. Vanessa Shami, Terri Rodee RN, and the entire team at UVA for sharing their first case experience in US evaluating the new Cook Medical Echotip ClearCore 19G FNB needle 👏 We are excited that you chose our needle to use in your practice!
🎉 Big thanks to the 28 GI fellows from across the STL area who joined us for an incredible evening of learning with @CookMedSurg team and @FujifilmUS!
Honored to feature faculty from @WashUMedGastro & @SLUgastro discussing all things in GI bleed management! 🩸🩸
“Snowman technique” - reband atop of a prior band ligation in order to maximize tissues capture.
I don’t do this often but I have found it to be effective each time.
Anecdotally I do find the resulting scar to be quite prominent and durable.
#GITwitter.
Congratulations @AhmadBazarbashi and his collaborating colleagues for their excellent endohepatology and interventional endoscopy research presentations at @DDWMeeting across multiple sessions!
I always feel like I’m continuously learning when I spend time with Dr. Amaninder Dhaliwal @drdhaliwal85. Todays case marked his 100th EUS portal pressure in last 12 months building a true center of excellence in endohepatology @McLeodHealth # stars and vessels aligned today.
Exciting times for endohepatology. We took part in this multicenter U.S study lead by @UCLAGIHep@JenKolbMD looking at correlation between EUS-PPG with clinical parameters and liver histology in @AGA_CGH
✔️ 8 centers, 385 patients
✔️ Higher PPG seen in EV, thrombocytopenia and portal HTN gastropathy
✔️EUS-PPG best overall predictor of biopsy proven cirrhosis compared to FIB-4 and APRI
https://t.co/rQ7HTxl1Ll