When double-stent placement ... made to perform ERCP. Type II strictures are technically the most challenging due to difficulty in identification of the papilla. Ideally, the biliary stent ...

ERCP is used primarily to diagnose and treat conditions ... The tiny endoscope can be advanced into the bile duct or pancreatic duct to directly visualize a narrowing or blockage. If the exam shows ...

Inserted during a 2022 bile duct procedure, the stent was meant to be removed after ... He had undergone the ERCP procedure at a govt hospital, during which the stent was placed to drain bile.

There have been several efforts to develop an effective preventive strategy that will eliminate or reduce the risk or severity of post-ERCP ... biliary sphincter, avoiding placement of biliary ...

A more detailed patient history revealed that endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and stent placement had been performed 6 years previously. The patient had not attended the ...

Procedures such as endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR), renal angioplasty, iliac angioplasty, kidney stent placement, therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography (ERCP) and bile duct ...