Post written by Hassan Atalla, MSc, and Arata Sakai, MD, PhD, from the Hepatology and Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, and the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan. A 60-year-old man with history of Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy for …
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Single-operator peroral cholangioscopy cystic duct cannulation for transpapillary gallbladder stent placement
Post written by Wiriyaporn Ridtitid, MD, Panida Piyachaturawat, MD, and Rungsun Rerknimitr, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross, Bangkok, Thailand. The focus of our study was to determine the efficacy and safety of single-operator peroral cholangioscopy (SOC) for helping …
Removal of proximally migrated biliary stents by using single-operator cholangioscopy
Post written by Abed Al Lehibi, MD, from Gastroenterology and Hepatology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Our series included 3 patients whose cases, while being treated for difficult biliary stones, were complicated by proximal stent migration. Two patients had migrated plastic stents, whereas the other had a migrated metal one. Single-operator cholangioscopy (Boston …
Peroral cholangioscopy–guided probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy for preoperative diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
Post written by Yuki Tanisaka, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Saitama, Japan. A 79-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of jaundice. He had previously undergone Billroth-II gastrectomy for gastric cancer. ERCP was performed. At first, we used a SIF-H290S (Olympus Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan) with …
Stent-in-stent self-expandable metallic stent placement under direct cholangioscopy
Post written by Mitsuru Okuno, MD, PhD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Gifu Municipal Hospital, Gifu, Japan. Managing consequent jaundice caused by malignant hilar biliary obstruction (MHBO) is important. Endoscopic biliary drainage is the treatment of choice because of its limited invasiveness. However, in patients with surgically altered anatomy, especially those who have undergone Roux-en-Y …
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A case of hemobilia secondary to cancer of the gallbladder confirmed by cholangioscopy
Post written by Linda Zhang, MBBS, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, St George Hospital, Kogarah, Australia. This article discusses the management of hemobilia due to gallbladder malignancy in a frail, elderly patient with multiple comorbidities, which limited the available therapies. Our patient was a 90-year-old female who presented with biliary obstruction and melaena. …
Balloon overtube-assisted cholangioscopy and laser lithotripsy of large bile duct stones
Post written by Jaehoon Cho, MD, and Ara B. Sahakian, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine, Los Angeles County Hospital and University of Southern California Medical Center, and the Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA. In this video, we describe successful balloon …
Electrohydraulic lithotripsy under double-balloon endoscope–assisted direct cholangioscopy
Post written by Tatsuya Sato, MD, from the Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. This is a case report of double-balloon endoscope-assisted direct cholangioscopy in a patient with a history of total gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y (R-Y) reconstruction. Electrohydraulic lithotripsy (EHL) was necessary to remove large and multiple bile …
Digital cholangioscopic evaluation of a post–liver transplantation stricture
Post written by Shyam Menon, MSc, MD, FRCP, from the Department of Liver Medicine, University Hospitals Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Post liver transplantation anastomotic strictures can be technically challenging to manage. We describe a patient who presented a few months after liver transplantation with progressively deteriorating liver function tests and an episode …
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Completely obstructed bile duct? Let cholangioscopy guide the way
Gabriel D. Lang, MD, from the Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, presents this video case. A 67-year-old female with locally advanced duodenal adenocarcinoma with previous metal biliary and enteral stents presented with jaundice. The cholangiogram demonstrated a complete obstruction at the proximal end of the stent. Multiple attempts to advance a variety …
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