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Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
January 2025
Radiology Department, Hanoi Medical University, 1st Ton That Tung Streets, Dong Da, Hanoi, 10000, Vietnam.
Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and diagnostic value of percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy biopsy (PTCB) for identifying the causes of biliary strictures.
Methods: This retrospective study included 34 patients (18 females and 16 males), with a mean age of 59.4 ± 13 years.
Diagnostics (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.
Background: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a key therapeutic procedure in diseases of the pancreas or bile ducts. The understanding and effective management of the risks associated with the procedure, especially in the context of possible infectious complications, is crucial for patients' safety. The aim of this review was to analyze the results of studies on antibiotic prophylaxis for infectious complications of ERCP, pancreatoscopy, and cholangioscopy.
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December 2024
Research Center of Biliary Disease, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Background: Multiple and complicated hepatolithiasis can be associated with decompensated cirrhosis. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is unavailable for multiple and complicated hepatolithiasis, and the mainstay for decompensated cirrhosis is liver transplantation. However, due to the ethical factors and the complexity of operation, liver transplantation cannot be widely operated.
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February 2025
Department of Radiology, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales 2145, Australia.
Recurrent cholangitis, intrahepatic stones and biliary and anastomotic strictures are common complications after Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy. The surgically altered anatomy makes management of these complications with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography technically difficult. We present a case of recurrent cholangitis in a 25-year-old woman with a prior hepaticojejunostomy.
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April 2024
Department of General and Transplant Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, Polnad.
<b>Introduction:</b> Choledocholithiasis (CCL) is one of the most common serious health consequences of cholelithiasis. For years, evacuation of stones using endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has been the first-line treatment. In 10-15% of cases, gallstones cannot be removed using the above-mentioned method and auxiliary methods are necessary; these are so-called difficult gallstones.
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