Italian Survey on Endoscopic Biliary Drainage Approach in Patients with Surgically Altered Anatomy

Conclusions: This survey shows that the endoscopic BD approach is extremely heterogeneous, especially in patients with Roux-en-Y reconstruction or after ERCP failure in Billroth-II reconstruction. Percutaneous BD is still taken into account by a significant proportion of centers in the case of Roux-en-Y anatomy. The total number of endoscopic BD procedures performed in non-tertiary centers is usually low, but this result does not correspond to an adequate rate of referral to more experienced centers.PMID:38541198 | PMC:PMC10972116 | DOI:10.3390/medicina60030472

Source: Medicina (Kaunas) - March 28, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Aurelio Mauro Cecilia Binda Alessandro Fugazza Giuseppe Vanella Vincenzo Giorgio Mirante Stefano Mazza Davide Scalvini Ilaria Tarantino Carlo Fabbri Andrea Anderloni None On Behalf Of The I-Eus Group Source Type: research