Open AccessTips for Dealing with Common Beginner’s Mistakes Made during Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage
Author(s) -
Min Jae Yang,
Jae Chul Hwang,
Byung Moo Yoo,
Jin Hong Kim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
digestive diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.879
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1421-9875
pISSN - 0257-2753
DOI - 10.1159/000505644
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous , gallbladder , stent , endoscopic ultrasound , fistula , surgery , radiology , drainage , ultrasound , ecology , biology
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) has been performed as an alternative to percutaneous drainage in surgically high-risk patients. Technical failures of EUS-GBD made by beginners are often attributed to failure of over-the-wire insertion of a fistula-dilating device or stent delivery system into the gallbladder, or stent misplacement in the final technical step. We herein report technical tips to prevent the failure of fistula dilation and provide tricks to avoid inward or outward stent misplacement.