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Wissam Kiwan M.D.

@KiwanGIDoc

Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Director @SLUgastro

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Wissam Kiwan M.D. Reposted

Great time today directing the 3rd annual advanced endoscopy hands-on course at St. Louis VA Medical Center for @SLUgastro and @WashUMedGastro fellows. Thank you to @CookMedical for the support and to @KiwanGIDoc @TrieuMD @SamuelJBurton @BalissMichelle and Drs Elwing and Nissing…

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🎉 Beyond grateful to receive both the Outstanding Research by Fellows-in-Training and Health Equity awards! 🏅🏅Immense thanks to@BilalMohammadMD for his mentorship and unwavering support. Honored to contribute to our field and committed to advancing health equity for all.…

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Super proud of @KAlsabb on recieveing the “@AmCollegeGastro Outstanding Research by Fellows-in-Training award” Just a first year - more to come I am sure ✅✅ #ACG2024 @KiwanGIDoc

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Our latest publication in JCG 📢 "Predictors of Morbidity, Mortality, and Hospital Utilization Among Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography–related Hospitalizations: A Five-year Nationwide Assessment" Among 776,025 ERCP-related hospitalizations, frail individuals faced…

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Looking forward to this virtual @ASGEendoscopy endo hangout session with @ChrisChapmanMD and @allie_schulman on Sep 12th on leaks/fistulas and perforations, moderated by @BalissMichelle Link below to register. Thank you to ASGE and @shifaumarMD shorturl.at/bvD3j

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Answer C Discussion Dysplasia is uncommon: 1-3% even in SSL ≥ 2cm SSL without concerning features is usually non-dysplastic. Common in the R colon; concerns include post-resection bleeding and perforation. Most SSL are flat and not fibrotic; easily removed by piecemeal Cold…


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Answer B Discussion: o General principles: Non-pedunculated adenomas <10 mm: Cold Snare (forceps okay for tiny ≤3 mm). Non-pedunculated adenomas 10-19 mm: Cold Snare is preferred, as per Mangira et al. (2023) and Rex et al. (2022), with low rates of incomplete resection and…

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I think distal attachment is really helpful, not just finding polyps but also helps in removing them


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Vignette (3) 👨‍⚕️ A 55-year-old man had a screening colonoscopy. Three small polyps were resected from the ascending colon. The bowel prep score after washing was 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. Two polyps were tubular adenomas, and one was hyperplastic. When should the next colonoscopy be? 🤔 a)…


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🚨You Just completed a screening colonoscopy for a 55-year-old male with 5 adenomas resected. The preparation quality is adequate.🩺 When to repeat colonoscopy? 🔄 A. 3 years B. 1 year C. 5 years D. 5-10 years @AlsakarnehSaqr @MohammedQasswal @Ahmed_salih_md @nataliejowilson


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Vignette 1: You are about to perform a colonoscopy on a 59-year-old woman with a history of hysterectomy and family history of colon cancer in sister. What is an optimal technique for colonoscopy insertion: A. Push around corners with adequate air insufflation and torque as you…


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Today, Israel killed 31 Palestinian infants and children. On average, Israel kills one child every 15 minutes. -This image shows the farewell of children from the Abu Gaza family, who were killed by Israel today.

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My sweetheart Retaj, my niece, burst into tears on the phone with me and said, 'I need my mum, uncle. I only need my mum.

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Today, the Israeli military sent this truck to Gaza, but it wasn't filled with the much-needed aid for the civilians. It rather was filled with bodies of killed Palestinians without any explanation of how, when, and where they were killed

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Happening now in my city, Khan Younis, again...

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📝A right step towards future accreditation of advance endoscopy fellowships.. will we have boards for AEF? 👇🏼Standards of training for AEF ✅ 80% time spend doing endoscopy ✅with at least 2 attendings ✅Min. 200 EUS + 200 ERCP + 20 EMR ✅assess competency using TEESAT

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Development of American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy standards for training in advanced endoscopy within dedicated advanced endoscopy fellowship programs pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38935016/



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Hot off the press 🔥 📣 Our 👁️‍🗨️ metanalysis about suprapapillary (inside) stents in the official journal of @SAGES_Updates @EAES_eu Take home points 🔑: 📌no clinical success difference between iPS and iMS 📌pooled AEs 9.5% 📌most common AE is cholangitis (2.2%) 📌more…

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