[2] Contraindications to gastroduodenal stent placement include known or suspected enteral ischemia or perforation, inability to pass a guidewire across the stricture, and the usual endoscopy ...

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Endoscopic stenting has now become accepted as the primary modality in palliating patients with nonresectable CCA. The endoscopic palliative management of CCA continues to evolve. Controversy ...

with dual stents placed in 5 cases. Pancreatic duct stone removal using stone retrieval balloons was performed in 24 patients, with analysis revealing the stones to be primarily composed of protein ...

Thirty-two patients (39 %) had already been submitted to previous endoscopic drainage (34.1 % had plastic and 4.9 % had metal stents). Demographic data are shown in Table 1. Technical success was ...

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These guidelines on transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic stent-shunt (TIPSS) in the management of portal hypertension have been commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee (CSSC) ...

According to the guidelines, the optimal diagnostic work-up of LTS patients relies both on a comprehensive anamnesis and on endoscopic and radiological assessments. All the causes of LTS result in an ...