Full-thickness gastrointestinal defects can present serious, sometimes life-threatening complications, but repairing them surgically—which is the current standard of care—also can cause substantial morbidity.
To mitigate these risks, clinicians have been exploring less invasive endoscopic options to fix these defects.
In one of the largest case series to date, Eric Pauli, MD, and his colleagues at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, analyzed the safety and