Klaus Mönkemüller, MD, PhD
@KMonkemuller
Professor, Gastroenterologist, Interventional Endoscopy, and Infectious Diseases Specialist/Tweets are mine. Retweets are not endorsement. Education posts.
A Pro Tip from Our New Book: The 'Bump Trick' for Hemostasis How a simple, two-clip technique can solve one of endoscopy's most frustrating problems—the difficult-to-reach bleeding lesion. We’ve all been there. You’re scoping a patient with a GI bleed and you find the culprit:…
🛠️ Management of ERCP related perforations 🔥 source: giejournal.org/article/S0016-…
✅ The concept of “capsule chromoendoscopy” to detect gut inflammation 💊 💙 Pill ingested, if there ist inflammation 💩 stool turns blue cell.com/device/fulltex…
🔥 For more tips and tricks on APC ✅ amzn.to/40ugFRB
✅ BUN is a predictor of severity in acute pancreatitis Source: gireview
WhatsApp Chat Summary: July 1 to July 18, 2025 newsletter.endocollab.com/p/whatsapp-cha…
Signs you're looking at a diverticulum: • Rounded borders • Fuzzy mucosa close to scope • Fibrotic-like rings • Dead-end appearance Signs you're in the lumen: • Convergent folds • Clear path forward Read: newsletter.endocollab.com/p/how-to-diffe…
✅ FGF19 and bile acid diarrhea Source: gireview
🩸 Over-the-scope clip to the rescue for complex duodenal ulcer Source: Dr. A. Gavrič
📖 The EndoCollab Atlas on GI Bleeding 🩸 is out 🙌🏻 amazon.it/EndoCollab-Gui…
✅ The NOD2 gene 🧬, responsible for providing tolerance to the microbiome 🦠 is also important to enhance response to cancer immunotherapy 💊 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
More gastroenterologists should look beyond "gastritis." That nodular antral pattern isn't always inflammation. It could be GAVE masquerading as gastritis. Careful inspection reveals the truth. The diagnosis changes everything. thepracticingendoscopist.com/p/gastric-antr…
✅ Pathophysiology of Heyde‘s Syndrome 🩸 - very easily explained
Heyde syndrome isn't just about cecal bleeding. It's acquired von Willebrand disease causing GI hemorrhage. The mechanism: • Malfunction of von Willebrand factor • Leads to angioneogenesis • Creates angiodysplasias anywhere in GI tract • GAVE is part of this spectrum It's…
✅ The GI Bleeding Book is out 👌🏻 Top tips for the practicing endoscopist 🔝 The “EndoCollab style” 👍🏻 amazon.de/-/en/Klaus-M%C… 👍🏻 This is more than just an atlas. It's a complete toolkit for mastering endoscopic hemostasis.
✅ Top Tips for Using Clips for 🩸
Tips and Tricks for Success With Endoscopic Clips @GastroHep & @KMonkemuller
🩸 The new GI Book on top tips for managing GI bleeding is out 🙌🏻 today on Kindle, and on Monday June 30th as Hard Cover and Online PDF amazon.com/dp/B0FFZFKBXY 
It’s 2 AM. There’s a critical upper GI bleed. You scope the patient, and what you see doesn’t quite match the perfect, clean images from the textbooks. Is it a straightforward ulcer, or a rare Dieulafoy's lesion hidden under a clot? Is that GAVE, or is it portal hypertensive…