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Closure of acute GI defects with OTSC® successful in more than 75 % of patients of an unselected cohort

Raithel M and colleagues, Department of Medicine II, University Erlangen, Germany presented data from three tertiary referral centers with 24-h emergency endoscopy (Erlangen, Wuerzburg, Fuerth) on patients receiving OTSC® therapy for acute gastrointestinal wall defects. Unselected consecutive patients presenting with acute non-surgical perforations, postoperative anastomotic leaks or inadvertent postoperative perforations …