Post written by Rishi Pawa, MD, FACG, from the Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A 43-year-old woman with history of Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy (secondary to Strasberg type E1 common bile duct injury at the time of her cholecystectomy) presented with cholangitis, hepatolithiasis, and hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) anastomotic stricture. She initially underwent an EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy …
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Uncommon cause of cholangitis due to a migrated pancreatic stone into the common bile duct
Post written by David M. de Jong, BSc, from the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. A 62-year-old man was referred to our tertiary hospital for endoscopic therapy of previously diagnosed alcoholic chronic pancreatitis. After initial stent placement, he underwent electrohydraulic lithotripsy (EHL) of 2 pancreatic duct stones …
Surgical clip removal using short-type single-balloon enteroscope
Post written by Hideaki Koga, MD and Akio Katanuma, MD from the Center for Gastroenterology at Teine-Keijinkai Hospital in Sapporo, Japan. A 76-year-old man who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) and pancreaticoduodenectomy presented with repeated cholangitis. CT showed mild dilation of the bile duct with an enhancing wall, and the surgical clips after LC located near …
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