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Endoscopic Management of Gastrointestinal Emergencies

Alberto Tringali

Alberto Tringali, Department of Surgery, Endoscopy Unit, Ospedale Niguarda, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore 3, 20162 Milan, Italy

Correspondence to: Alberto Tringali, Department of Surgery, Endoscopy Unit, Ospedale Niguarda, Piazza Ospedale Maggiore 3, 20146 Milan, Italy
Email: alberto.tringali@ospedaleniguarda.it
Telephone:+390264442770
Fax :+390264442911
Received: December 2, 2014
Revised: February 28, 2015
Accepted: March 3, 2015
Published online: March 21, 2015

© 2015 The Author. Published by ACT Publishing Group Ltd.

Tringali A. Endoscopic management of Gastrointestinal Emergencies . Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Research 2015; 4(3): 1485 Available from: URL: http://www.ghrnet.org/index.php/joghr/article/view/1117

editorial

Gastrointestinal endoscopy in the last years has become from a purely diagnostic to a largely therapeutic procedure.

Endoscopic therapy has rapidly become the treatment of choice for many acute conditions including non-variceal and variceal GI bleeding, foreign body impaction, caustic agents and acute biliary and colonic obstruction, narrowing the role of surgery and interventional radiology in the acute setting.

The development of new tools and techniques have reduced the rebleeding and mortality rate but the comorbidity remain an important factor that impact on the patient outcome.

In this issue of Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology research I have brought together a group of distinguished experts in their respective fields to review the literature and share their approach to endoscopic emergencies.

I asked the authors to review and update the evidence regarding their subsequent topics as well as offer some clinical and practical advice, which would be useful tool to approach the GI emergiencies.

I wish to thank Dr. Sung J for the invitation to participate as editor of this edition of the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology research.

We’d also like to thank each of the authors contributing to this edition for their efforts on this project. We hope the readers will find this issue as informative and enjoyable to read.

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