MINI REVIEW article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1585705
This article is part of the Research TopicPediatric Gastroenterology And Visualizing The Digestive TractView all articles
Pediatric Unsedated Transnasal Endoscopy: Applications, Equipment, and Future Directions
Provisionally accepted
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy is a valuable tool to diagnose and treat GI conditions.Traditional pediatric GI endoscopy uses sedation or general anesthesia, with associated risks of cardiopulmonary compromise and social and economic costs like school or work absence. Unsedated, transnasal endoscopy is an approach that mitigates these disadvantages but provides similar diagnostic benefit to conventional endoscopy. Ongoing advances in the field of pediatric transnasal endoscopy will be driven by an enhanced understanding of current indications, available equipment, procedural comfort strategies, and recent developments in new diagnostic and therapeutic uses.
Keywords: Unsedated endoscopy, transnasal endoscopy, GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease), EoE, EGD
Received: 01 Mar 2025; Accepted: 25 Apr 2025.
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* Correspondence: Ryan Pitman, Indiana University, Bloomington, 47405, Indiana, United States
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