Clinical Endoscopy (Jan 2020)

Clinical Usefulness of Dual Red Imaging in Gastric Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection: A Pilot Study

  • Naoki Yorita,
  • Shiro Oka,
  • Shinji Tanaka,
  • Takahiro Kotachi,
  • Naoko Nagasaki,
  • Kosaku Hata,
  • Kazutaka Kuroki,
  • Kazuhiko Masuda,
  • Mio Kurihara,
  • Mariko Kiso,
  • Tomoyuki Boda,
  • Masanori Ito,
  • Kazuaki Chayama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5946/ce.2019.065
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 53, no. 1
pp. 54 – 59

Abstract

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Background/Aims Dual red imaging (DRI) is a new, image-enhanced endoscopy technique. There are few reports about the usefulness of DRI during gastric endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD). We aimed to examine the usefulness of DRI in endoscopic hemostasis during gastric ESD. Methods We enrolled a total of 20 consecutive patients who underwent gastric ESD. Five endoscopists compared DRI with white light imaging (WLI) for the visibility of blood vessels and bleeding points while performing endoscopic hemostasis. Results The visibility of blood vessels was increased in 56% (19/34) of the cases, and the visibility of bleeding points was improved in 55% (11/20) of the cases with the use of DRI compared with the use of WLI. Conclusions DRI improved the visibility of blood vessels and bleeding points in cases with oozing bleeding, blood pooling around the bleeding points, and multiple bleeding points.

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