scholarly journals Number of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Procedures Required for Short Biliary Cannulation Time

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koichiro Mandai ◽  
Koji Uno ◽  
Yasutoshi Fujii ◽  
Takuji Kawamura ◽  
Kenjiro Yasuda

Background. Several previous studies assessed the competence in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) using the bile duct cannulation success rate. However, the cannulation time is also important, because a long cannulation time was reported to be a risk factor for post-ERCP pancreatitis. Aim. To determine the number of ERCP procedures required for short cannulation time of the bile duct. Methods. We retrospectively analyzed 605 ERCP procedures performed for bile duct cannulation in patients with native papilla at our institution between March 2012 and December 2015. The successful procedures were divided into 2 groups: group L and group S (cannulation time>15 minutes and ≤15 minutes, resp.). An analysis of the relationship among the biliary cannulation time, ERCP experience, and other factors was then conducted. Results. Multivariate analysis showed that the ERCP experience of ≤300 procedures (odds ratio, 2.080; 95% confidence interval, 1.337–3.142; P=0.001) and malignant biliary stricture due to pancreatic cancer (odds ratio, 1.912; 95% confidence interval, 1.072–3.412; P=0.028) were found to be significantly associated with a cannulation time of >15 minutes. Conclusions. Our findings suggested that an ERCP experience of ≤300 procedures and malignant biliary stricture due to pancreatic cancer were associated with prolonged biliary cannulation time.

2016 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-127
Author(s):  
Holly Rochefort ◽  
Lea Matsuoka ◽  
Konstantinos Chouliaras ◽  
Didi Mwengela ◽  
James Buxbaum ◽  
...  

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is frequently used to clear the common bile duct (CBD) in patients with choledocholithiasis. While a single ERCP is usually effective, many patients undergo multiple ERCP attempts before cholecystectomy. Here we sought to identify preoperative factors predictive of surgical complexity beyond routine laparoscopic cholecystectomy after ERCP. Data were prospectively collected for all ERCPs between September 2010 and February 2012 at a public academic medical center including demographics, indication, stone presence, CBD diameter, sphincterotomy, stent placement, and ERCP number. A total of 124 ERCPs were attempted in 73 patients with choledocholithiasis, 10 per cent of whom presented with cholangitis. Fifty-six per cent of patients underwent one ERCP, whereas 16 per cent required ≥ 3 procedures. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed in 58 (79%) patients whereas 15 (21%) patients required more complex operations including eight open CBD explorations and two hepaticojejunostomies. The likelihood of requiring more complex surgery correlated with increasing number of ERCPs with an adjusted odds ratio of 5.75 (95% confidence interval: 2.31–14.3, P ≤ 0.001). Increased CBD diameter also correlated with complex surgery with adjusted odds ratio of 1.5 (95% confidence interval: 1.10–2.06, P = 0.012) for each millimeter. The number of pre-operative ERCPs and CBD diameter in choledocholithiasis patients are strong predictors of the need for open surgery and CBD exploration and should be considered in surgical planning and consent for patients requiring more than one ERCP procedure.


2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Isayama ◽  
Yousuke Nakai ◽  
Kazumichi Kawakubo ◽  
Hirofumi Kogure ◽  
Tsuyoshi Hamada ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. e191-e194
Author(s):  
Mahesh Kumar Goenka ◽  
Gajanan Ashokrao Rodge ◽  
Bhavik Bharat Shah ◽  
Shivaraj Afzalpurkar

AbstractPeriampullary diverticula (PAD) have been encountered in 5.9 to 18.5% of patients during all the endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Cannulation in the presence of PAD can sometimes be difficult, time consuming, and often requires a higher level of endoscopic skills.Several techniques have been reported to facilitate and increase the chances of successful bile duct cannulation in the presence of PAD. The two-devices in one-channel method has been sparingly used. It involves the simultaneous use of a biopsy forceps and another instrument, either a cannula or sphincterotome through the same working channel. We successfully performed ERCP in three cases, where bile duct cannulation was performed in the setting of intradiverticular papilla using two-devices in one-channel method.We feel that the two-devices in one-channel method can be very useful and positioned higher up in the algorithm for successful cannulation in patients with PAD.


2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R.E. Cankurtaran ◽  
R Atalay ◽  
Y.H. Polat ◽  
F Kivrakoglu ◽  
M Tahtacı ◽  
...  

Background and study aim: In European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy guidelines, biliary cannulation of naive papillae is defined as difficult in the presence of more than 5 papilla contacts, more than 5min cannulation time or more than one unintended pancreatic duct cannulation or opacification. It is not known whether cholecystectomy is a cause of difficult biliary cannulation. This study aimed to investigate whether cholecystectomy (CCY) is a cause of difficult biliary cannulation in patients who have undergone Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) for choledocholithiasis. Patients and methods: Adult patients with naive papillae and those who underwent ERCP for common bile duct stones and/or sludge were included in this retrospective study. Patient demographics, clinical presentation (acute cholangitis, biliary pancreatitis or biliary colic), periprocedural data including laboratory and radiological findings and ERCP results were compared between no-CCY and post-CCY groups. Results: 438 patients were included in the present study and 347 of these patients were in the no-CCY group and 91 patients were in post-CCY group. A statistically significant difference was found in the number of patients with difficult cannulation in the post-CCY group (n=30, 33.0%) patients compared to the no- CCY group (n=67, 19.3%) (p=0.011). According the multivariate analyses results, presence of history of cholecystectomy was found an independent risk factor of difficult cannulation (Odds ratio: 2.014; 95 % Cl 1.205-3.366; p=0.008). Conclusions: The results showed that biliary cannulation was significantly more difficult in patients with cholecystectomy who underwent ERCP for common bile duct stones.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
DiogoTuriani Hourneaux De Moura ◽  
EduardoGuimarães Hourneaux De Moura ◽  
WanderleiMarques Bernardo ◽  
EduardoTuriani Hourneaux De Moura ◽  
FelipeI Baraca ◽  
...  

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258887
Author(s):  
Hye Gyo Chung ◽  
Jong-In Chang ◽  
Kwang Hyuk Lee ◽  
Joo Kyung Park ◽  
Kyu Taek Lee ◽  
...  

Background Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) are commonly used diagnostic modalities in biliary strictures. We compared the diagnostic yield of EUS and ERCP-based tissue sampling in intrinsic biliary strictures without extrinsic mass outside the bile duct. Methods A total of 85 patients who underwent ERCP and EUS for diagnosis of suspected biliary strictures confined to the bile duct were analyzed retrospectively at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, between 2010 and 2018. Results Seventy-one patients were diagnosed with malignancy and 14 patients were diagnosed with benign strictures. EUS-based tissue sampling was more sensitive and accurate than ERCP-based tissue sampling (p = 0.038). The overall sensitivity and accuracy were 67.6% (95% confidence interval (CI) 56.1–77.3) and 72.9% (95% CI 62.7–81.2) for ERCP-based sampling, and 80.3% (95% CI 69.6–87.9) and 83.5% (95% CI 74.2–89.9) for EUS-based sampling, respectively. EUS-based sampling was superior to ERCP-based sampling in distal bile duct strictures (accuracy: 87.0% vs. 72.5%, p = 0.007), but not in perihilar strictures. In cases without intraductal mass, EUS-based tissue sampling was also superior to ERCP-based sampling (accuracy: 83.3% vs. 69.7%, p = 0.029), but not in cases with mass. Conclusion EUS-based tissue sampling was superior to ERCP-based method in intrinsic biliary stricture with no mass outside the bile duct, particularly in those without intraductal mass or those with strictures located in distal bile duct. Therefore, EUS-based sampling should be considered for making a pathological diagnosis of suspected distal bile duct strictures even in lesions without definite mass.


Endoscopy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (09) ◽  
pp. 852-857
Author(s):  
Akira Kurita ◽  
Yasushi Kudo ◽  
Kenichi Yoshimura ◽  
Tadamasa Takemura ◽  
Yoshiharu Mori ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Selective biliary cannulation (SBC) is the first challenge of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), especially for trainees, and a rotatable sphincterotome may be useful to guide the directional axis of the scope and SBC. Methods We performed a prospective randomized single-center trial, enrolling 200 patients with a native papilla who required therapeutic biliary ERCP. Patients were randomly assigned to the rotatable sphincterotome group (n = 100) or the conventional sphincterotome group (n = 100). The primary endpoint was successful SBC by the trainees within 10 minutes. Results The early and late cannulation success rates did not differ significantly between the groups (P = 0.46 and P > 0.99, respectively). For the patients in whom trainees failed to achieve SBC, the rotatable sphincterotome was used as a rescue cannulation technique in four patients from the conventional group; in no patients in the rotatable group was the conventional sphincterotome used for SBC. Post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) occurred in 11 patients (5.5 %; 6 mild, 5 moderate); the incidence did not differ significantly between the two groups (rotatable group 3 %, conventional group 8 %; P = 0.21). The two groups were thus combined for evaluation of the factors relating to cannulation difficulty for trainees, which revealed that orientation of the papilla was a significant factor (P < 0.001). Conclusions The type of sphincterotome used did not affect the success of SBC by trainees. However, orientation of the papilla was revealed to be a significant factor relating to cannulation difficulty for trainees overall.


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