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 ...

A therapeutic endoscopic procedure provides treatment that is carried out via the endoscope. A procedure, which starts as a diagnostic or screening endoscopy, may become a therapeutic endoscopy ...

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 ...

Endoscopic Mucosal Ablation (EMA) is a minimally invasive medical procedure used to treat conditions by selectively targeting and removing abnormal or diseased tissue from the mucosal lining of organs ...

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 ...

For years now, surgeons have debated the relative merits of endoscopic and open surgery for carpal tunnel release. Now some researchers believe that they are closing the case against the endoscopic ...

A procedure that uses controlled electrical pulses to induce changes to the lining of the first part of the small intestine could allow patients with type 2 diabetes to stop taking insulin and still ...

Endoscopic mucosal ablation offers a minimally invasive weight loss solution Procedure targets ghrelin production to curb hunger sensations Promising trial results hint at revolutionary obesity ...