Therapeutic Endoscopic Ultrasound

Evangelos Kalaitzakis MD, PhD, MSc, FEBGH Evangelos Kalaitzakis is a medical gastroenterologist and interventional endoscopist. He obtained a PhD in gastroenterology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden where he also completed his residency. He trained in interventional endoscopy in the University College London Hospital in the UK. He has been working at the Copenhagen University Hospital as an interventional endoscopist with a focus on EUS and ERCP since 2013 and obtained the title of associate professor in medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 2015. He has authored in excess of 100 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of endoscopy, pancreatology, and hepatology and he is an editorial board member of Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology and Endoscopic Ultrasound. Peter Vilmann Peter Vilmann started as an international recognized pioneer on EUS with linear transducers, as well as a variety of EUS-guided diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. He was the first to perform EUS-guided fine needle biopsy (1991) and the inventor of the first needle assembly for EUS-guided aspiration biopsy. During the years he has published more than 200 publications accepted in peer/reviewed international medical journals, as well as more than 34 medical books or chapters as author or co-author.

Therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound scanning.- 1. Preface.- General  topics.- 2. Equipment and accessories for therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound.- 3. Setting up an interventional EUS service.- 4. Sedation and analgesia for interventional EUS.- 5. Training in interventional EUS .- EUS-guided drainage.- 6. Pancreatic fluid collection drainage.- 7.  Biliary drainage.- 8. Pancreatic duct drainage .- 9. Gallbladder drainage.- 10. Pelvic abscess drainage.- EUS-guided anti-tumor therapy.- 11. Ablation of solid neoplasms.- 12. Ablation of pancreatic cystic lesions.- 13. Fiducial placement for guidance of radiotherapy.- 14. Brachytherapy and delivery of anti-tumor agents.- Other EUS-guided interventions.- 15. Celiac plexus blockade/neurolysis.- 16. Vascular interventions.- 17. Gastroenterostomy.- 18. Future perspectives.