Hogan DE, Ma M, Kadosh D, Menon A, Chin K, Swaminath A. Endo-hepatology: An emerging field. World J Gastrointest Endosc 2021; 13(8): 296-301 [PMID: 34512877 DOI: 10.4253/wjge.v13.i8.296]
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Reader Comments:
The authors were very successful in using an interesting term of Endo-hepatology, however, there are still many uses of EUS in hepatology that they were not mentioned.
As regarding the usage of endoscopic SWE as a non-invasive tool for measurement of fibrosis, it was not as successful as we have many other non-invasive tools (e.g fibroscan, CAP) rather than endoscopy that is much safer.
EUS-guided paracentesis (EUS-P) is still not a practical issue.
There are also some very important and useful uses for EUS that are not mentioned as the feasibility in the detection of small hepatic lesions that could be missed by other imaging modalities and the possibility of biopsy from those lesions.
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