Lawrence Muscarella, a medical safety expert and president of LFM Healthcare Solutions in Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, offers the following advice for patients who may be scheduled for a ...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gastroenterostomy is gaining traction as a less-invasive alternative to surgical bypass and enteral stenting for patients with gastric outlet obstruction. The procedure ...

Endoscopic ultrasound procedure (EUS) is a minimally-invasive procedure using an endoscope with an ultrasound camera at the tip of it to evaluate the layers of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. With ...

Endoscopic ultrasound was developed primarily for imaging the pancreas and submucosal lesions. With the curved linear array echoendoscopes, accurate needle placement can be made into structures ...

WASHINGTON -- Endoscopic gastric fundus mucosal ablation (GFMA) as a means of reducing production of the hunger-modulating hormone ghrelin was technically feasible and safe in a first-in-human study, ...

A new weight-loss treatment could be on the horizon with an innovative endoscopic procedure that ablates (burns) the stomach lining to reduce production of ghrelin, a hormone that triggers hunger, ...

In a Dutch study, patients with malignant gastric outlet obstruction who underwent endoscopic gastroenterostomy resumed solid foods after a median of 1 day versus 3 days with surgery. The endoscopic ...

Emerson Hospital and Middlesex Digestive Health and Endoscopy Center announced that endoscopic ultrasound procedures are now offered at Emerson Hospital in Concord. The EUS device is the latest in ...