Education & Training

 

AGA Education, Practice and Research

Focused Clincial Updates 2006

To receive full CME credit, you are required to complete the evaluation form and self-test for each chapter you complete. Upon completion of the evaluation form and test, a certificate with your name and number of credits you have claimed will be generated. You must print your certificate using the print function in your browser.

The objectives listed below are to be used when evaluating the program. After completing this program, each participant should be able to:

  • Identify how state of the art and emerging research will impact management of digestive conditions.
  • Review diagnostic and treatment options for patients with several digestive diseases.

 

Enhanced Endoscopic Imaging

Select one answer for each question. You may change your answers as many times as you need to until you click the "Submit" button located at the bottom of the test.

1. Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE):

Is a colonoscopic imaging technique that uses multiple images to allow visualization below surface tissue

Has poor sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of neoplastic polyps

Has no side effects

Is not commercially available

2. Wireless capsule endoscopy in the detection of Barrett's esophagus:

Allows for 100% success in obtaining readable endoscopic pictures

Is superior in detecting long-segment compared to short-segment Barrett's

Enables one to take pictures at seven frames per second

Always allows visualization of the GE junction

3. Narrow band imaging endoscopy:

Gives a transition point between squamous and columnar mucosa from white to red

Enhances the linear vessels in the distal esophagus compared to standard endoscopy

Does not allow for any better visualization of erosions than standard endoscopy

None of the above

4. Which of the following are correct?

High resolution endoscopy, video autofluorescence imaging and narrow band imaging can be incorporated into one colonoscope

A disposable, self-propelling, self-navigating endoscope was unsuccessful in pilot trials

High-resolution endoscopy combined with chromoendoscopy allowed an increased detection of duodenal polyps in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis

None of the above are correct