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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 ...

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 ...

3 Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Objective While it is recommended that patients presenting with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding (AUGIB) should ...

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 ...

4 Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands Correspondence to Professor Dr J W Jukema, Department of Cardiology C5-P, Leiden ...

Once inflated, an expandable mesh tube (called a stent) can be inserted to keep the vessel open. Because balloon angioplasty is used to correct severely impaired blood flow, the benefits of treatment ...

[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 ...