Prospective Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of Endoscopic Tissue Apposition
Aims: To prospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of Endoscopic Tissue Apposition in the practice of gastrointestinal endoscopy.
• Patients\>18 years of age undergoing endoscopy for any of the following indications:
⁃ Indications for Tissue Apposition:
• Closure of perforations
• Closure of full thickness defects created during endoscopic full thickness resection
• Closure of defects after endoscopic submucosal dissection and endoscopic mucosal resection
• Closure of mucosotomy after Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM)
• Stent fixation
• Closure of fistulas
• Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery defect closures
• Post-bariatric surgery gastrojejunal anastomosis and gastric pouch revision (transoral outlet repair)
• Primary endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty