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ERCP Using Double-Balloon Enteroscopy in Patients with Roux-en-Y Anatomy

2008; Karger Publishers; Volume: 26; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1159/000177018

1421-9875

Rogério Kuga, Carlos K. Furuya, Fábio Y. Hondo, Edson Ide, Shinichi Ishioka, Paulo Sakai,

Gastrointestinal Bleeding Diagnosis and Treatment

Double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE) is a useful method for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with Roux-en-Y anatomy. Depending on the distorted anatomy, endoscopic therapies with conventional scopes were very difficult or impossible before the advent of DBE and patients had to be submitted to a percutaneous or surgical approach. The case of 6 patients with different types of Roux-en-Y-altered anatomy in which DBE-ERCP was performed with 83.3% successful rate (5/6) is reported confirming recent data in the literature on the feasibility of this method.