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Endoscopic Ultrasound at Crossroads in COVID - 19 era:‎ a Multi-Center Global Study.

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Infectious diseases

Abstract

Background and study aim: During COVID-19 pandemic most of non-emergency endoscopic procedures has ‎been suspended. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is important diagnostic and ‎therapeutic procedure. This survey aimed to provide a rapid assessment of status of ‎EUS during COVID-19 pandemic in different leading units of the world‎‎‎‎‎‎‎.‎
Patients and Methods: ‎‎‎Senior endoscopists from 10 different countries were invited to participate. Patient ‎demographics, COVID-19 status, EUS indications as well as laboratory and ‎radiology findings were reported. Pre-procedural preparation and post procedure ‎complications were reported. Data were analyzed to reveal the effect of SARS-CoV-‎‎2 pandemic on different perspectives of EUS practice in the collaborating ‎endoscopy units. Descriptive analysis was done by calculating percentages for ‎categorical variables and mean± standard deviation for quantitative variables‎‎‎.‎
Results: data of 316 patients from 11 countries were accrued. The mean (± SD) age of the ‎patients in this study was 55.57±13.94 years. In this analysis 62.3% were laboratory ‎confirmed SARS-Cov-2 negative while 8 patients were suspected and only 1 ‎patient was laboratory confirmed positive for COVID -19. Daily performance of EUS ‎was similar in before and during COVID-19 pandemic with an insignificant ‎decrease of -1.1%. Emergent and urgent EUS was needed in 58 (14.4%) and 91 ‎‎(28.8%) patients respectively. Pancreatic mass (27.8%),biliary dilatation (10.4%) ‎formed major chunk of indications for procedure. Therapeutic outcomes were ‎achieved with majority (40.8%)‎‎‎‎‎‎.

Conclusion: our data underscores the point of efforts of clinicians to provide the same level of ‎care provided by EUS units despite the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic‎‎‎‎.

DOI

10.21608/aeji.2022.159405.1249

Keywords

EUS, COVID-19, Pancreatic mass, FNA

Authors

First Name

Ahmad

Last Name

Madkour

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Endemic Medicine, Helwan University, Cairo , Egypt.

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doctor.ahmad.madkour@gmail.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Omar

Last Name

Elshaarawy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, National Liver Institute, Menoufia University,Egypt. - Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, United ‎Kingdom

Email

oelshaarawy@liver.menofia.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amna

Last Name

Butt

MiddleName

Subhan

Affiliation

Section of Gastroenterology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, ‎Pakistan

Email

amna.subhan@aku.edu

City

Karachi

Orcid

0000-0002-7311-4055

First Name

Nitin

Last Name

Behl

MiddleName

Shanker

Affiliation

Institute of Gastro and Liver Diseases Fortis Hospitals , Ludhiana , India. ‎

Email

drnitinbehl@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Radovan

Last Name

Prijic

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Endoscopy Unit, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department ‎of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

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radovan.prijic@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Funari

Last Name

Mateus Pereira

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Gastroenterology Department, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de ‎Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo,Brazil.

Email

mateusfunari@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Zhiqin

Last Name

Wong

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Gastroenterology and Hepatology unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of ‎Medicine, The National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Email

wzhiqin@ppukm.ukm.edu.my

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Amr

Last Name

Abou-Elmagd

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Gastroenterology Department, Armed Forces College of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.‎

Email

amrgit@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

Wen

Last Name

Li

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the First Medical Center of ‎the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China‎.

Email

liwen2000@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Shahriyar

Last Name

Ghazanfar

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, Dow university of Health Sciences, Karachi,Pakistan

Email

shahriyar.ghazanfar@duhs.edu.pk

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mark

Last Name

Anthony De Lusong

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of the Philippines, ‎Philippines General Hospital, Philippines.

Email

madelusong@up.edu.ph

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Khaled

Last Name

Ragab

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Theodor Bilharz Research ‎Institute, Giza, Egypt.

Email

khalidmohamedragab@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Lasheen

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Theodor Bilharz Research ‎Institute, Giza, Egypt.

Email

dr_lasheen1988_tbri@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Hazem

Last Name

Hakim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,Faculty of Medicine,Mansoura ‎ University,Mansoura, Egypt.

Email

hzhzhkhk@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Diogo

Last Name

Turiani Hourneaux de Moura

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Gastroenterology Department, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de ‎Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo,Brazil.

Email

dthmoura@hotmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Eliwa

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

‎Department of Internal medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

ahmedmaher.206@azhar.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Alboraie

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

‎Department of Internal medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

alboraie@azhar.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-8490-9822

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Altonbary

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,Faculty of Medicine,Mansoura ‎ University,Mansoura, Egypt.

Email

a.tonbary@gmail.com

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-

Orcid

-

Volume

12

Article Issue

4

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37615

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-08-29

Publish Date

2022-12-01

Page Start

329

Page End

334

Print ISSN

2090-7613

Online ISSN

2090-7184

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AEJI_Volume 12_Issue 4_Pages 329-334.pdf

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Afro-Egyptian Journal of Infectious and Endemic Diseases

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22 Jan 2023