Endoscopic Ultrasound and Related Technologies for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Disease - Research Gaps and Opportunities: Summary of a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Workshop

Pancreas. 2017 Nov/Dec;46(10):1242-1250. doi: 10.1097/MPA.0000000000000936.

Abstract

A workshop was sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to address the research gaps and opportunities in pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). The event occurred on July 26, 2017 in 4 sessions: (1) benign pancreatic diseases, (2) high-risk pancreatic diseases, (3) diagnostic and therapeutics, and (4) new technologies. The current state of knowledge was reviewed, with identification of numerous gaps in knowledge and research needs. Common themes included the need for large multicenter consortia of various pancreatic diseases to facilitate meaningful research of these entities; to standardize EUS features of different pancreatic disorders, the technique of sampling pancreatic lesions, and the performance of various therapeutic EUS procedures; and to identify high-risk disease early at the cellular level before macroscopic disease develops. The need for specialized tools and accessories to enable the safe and effective performance of therapeutic EUS procedures also was discussed.

Publication types

  • Congress

MeSH terms

  • Biomedical Research / methods*
  • Biomedical Research / trends
  • Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures*
  • Endosonography / methods*
  • Endosonography / trends
  • Humans
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (U.S.)
  • Pancreatic Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Pancreatic Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Pancreatic Diseases / therapy
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Review Literature as Topic
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • United States