A Biliary Endoprosthesis Functioning After Six Years

Forgotten biliary endoprosthesis. "Follow up" after 10 years.

Management of common bile duct stones with a biliary endoprosthesis. Report on 40 cases.

Endoscopic placement of a biliary endoprosthesis has been proposed for the management of choledocholithiasis when stone extraction is difficult or considered hazardous. Over a two year period this approach was used in 40 such patients. There were 24 women and 16 men with a median age of 76 years. In seven patients with severe cholangitis no attempt was made to extract the stones. Twenty three (...

Palliative treatment of obstructive jaundice by transpapillary introduction of large bore bile duct endoprosthesis.

The endoscopic techniques for introducing a large calibre (3.2 mm) biliary endoprosthesis to relieve jaundice are described. In 45 patients such an endoprosthesis was successfully introduced. The median survival time in 18 patients was 41 days (range three to 187). Twenty-six patients are still alive after a median of 28 days (range seven to 244). One patient had a surgical bypass after 24 days...

Surgery or Endoprosthesis for Malignant Obstructive Jaundice

Shepherd HA, Royle G, Ross APR, Diba A, Arthur M and Colin-Jones D (1988) Endoscopic biliary endoprosthesis in the palliation ofmalignant obstruction of the distal common bile duct." a randomized trial. British Journal ofSurgery; 75.’1166-1168 A total of 52 jaundiced elderly patients who had malignant obstruction of the distal common bile duct and who required palliative biliary decompression w...

Acute obstructive cholangitis caused by barium refluxed into the common bile duct through endoprosthesis.

cause of early gastric cancer (UICC, stage II) and pancreatic cancer (UICC, Stage III). An endoprosthesis, 7 Fr in size, had been placed for obstructive jaundice due to pancreatic cancer in another hospital. La− boratory data on admission showed slight elevation of total bilirubin (1.7 mg/ dL). High−grade fever and remarkable jaundice developed (total bilirubin, 6.1 mg/dL) 6 days after an upper...