ReviewWorld journal of gastrointestinal endoscopy2015
Current status of laparoendoscopic rendezvous in the treatment of cholelithiasis with concomitant choledocholithiasis.
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- Single-stage laparoendoscopic management of cholecystocholedocholithiasis: A retrospective study comparing starting with ERCP versus with laparoscopic cholecystectomy.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2025Article
- Laparoendoscopic Rendezvous: An Effective and Safe Approach in the Management of Cholecysto-Choledocholithiasis in Selected Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Changes in the Management of Common Bile Duct Stones: 1980 to Date.Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2024Review
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- Rendezvous procedure for choledocholithiasis in a Canadian rural surgical service.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2023Article
- Acute Cholecystitis from Biliary Lithiasis: Diagnosis, Management and Treatment.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Destiny for Rendezvous: Is Cholecysto/Choledocholithiasis Better Treated with Dual- or Single-Step Procedures?Digestive diseases and sciences · 2022Review
- Laparo-endoscopic management of chole-choledocholithiasis: Rendezvous or intraoperative ERCP? A single tertiary care center experience.Frontiers in surgery · 2022Article
- Laparoendoscopic rendezvous in the treatment of cholecysto-choledocholitiasis: a single series of 200 patients.Surgical endoscopy · 2018Article
- Preliminary experience with laparoscopic common bile duct exploration.BMC surgery · 2017Article
- Intraoperative ERCP for management of cholecystocholedocholithiasis.Surgical endoscopy · 2017Article
- Laparoendoscopic Rendezvous for Concomitant Cholecystocholedocholithiasis: A Successful Modality Even in the Most Difficult Presentations Including Pregnancy.Case reports in surgery · 2016Article
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Abstract
The current evidence in favor of the laparoendoscopic rendezvous is promising and demonstrates the main advantages of this technique in regard to shorter hospital stay and selective cannulation of the common bile duct (CBD), avoiding thus the inadvertent cannulation of the pancreatic duct. In addition, in the rendezvous technique the contrast medium is not injected retrogradely as during the traditional endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), when the medium accidentally could be injected under pressure into the pancreatic duct. The RV technique minimizes that risk. Both these main advantages of the RV technique over the classic ERCP, are related with a significant lower incidence of hyperamylasemia and post-ERCP pancreatitis, compared with the traditional two stage procedure. Choledocholithiasis is present in 10% to 15% of patients undergoing cholecystectomy. To date, the ideal management of CBD stones remains controversial. Prospective randomized trials have shown that laparoscopic management of the CBD stones, as a single stage procedure, is the most efficient and cost effective method of treatment. Laparoendoscopic rendezvous has been proposed as an alternative single stage approach. Several studies have shown the effective use of this technique in the treatment of CBD stones by improving patient compliance and clinical results including shorter hospital stay, higher success rate and less cost. The current evidence about the use of this technique presented in this review article is promising and demonstrates the main advantages of the procedure.
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