Post written by Bianca L. Di Cocco, MD, from the Division of Internal Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York, USA. In this video case report, we show how endoscopic techniques can be used to treat adverse events during EUS-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GB). The patient was a 44-year-old woman with cholelithiasis …
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EUS-guided gallbladder drainage and subsequent peroral endoscopic cholecystolithotomy: A tool to reduce chemotherapy discontinuation in neoplastic patients?
Post written by Giuseppe Vanella, MD, from the Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy and Endosonography Division, Pancreas Translational and Clinical Research Center, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy. In this video case series, we discuss how endoscopic treatment of acute cholecystitis (AC) can improve the management of patients in a multidisciplinary cancer institute. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage …
Comparison of EUS-guided endoscopic transpapillary and percutaneous gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis
Post written by Anthony Yuen Bun Teoh, FRCSEd (Gen), from the Department of Surgery, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China. The optimal method of gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis in nonsurgical candidates is uncertain. The aim of the current study was to conduct a network meta-analysis comparing …
Percutaneous transhepatic versus EUS-guided gallbladder drainage
Post written by Jaihwan Kim, MD, from the Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. We want to introduce the feasibility, safety, long-term patency, and economic issue of EUS-GBD in patients with malignant cystic duct obstruction. In real practice, physicians meet some patients who need a long indwelling PTGBD which seriously …
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Transgastric gallstone extraction
Takao Itoi, MD, PhD, FASGE from the Tokyo Medical University in Tokyo, Japan presents this video case "Transgastric large gallstone extraction in a patient with acute cholecystitis through a lumen-apposing metal stent (with video)" from the April issue. A Tokyo guideline in 2013 proposed that percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) is considered a safe alternative …
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