ArticleEuropean radiology2016
Benign biliary strictures refractory to standard bilioplasty treated using polydoxanone biodegradable biliary stents: retrospective multicentric data analysis on 107 patients.
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- Additive Manufacturing of Polymeric Bioresorbable Stents: A Mechanical Performance Perspective.Biomaterials research · 2026Review
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- Reconstructive surgery and percutaneous balloon dilation for the treatment of benign biliary strictures: A retrospective study.World journal of hepatology · 2025Article
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- Benign Biliary Strictures: A Comprehensive Review.The Turkish journal of gastroenterology : the official journal of Turkish Society of Gastroenterology · 2024Review
- Biosynthetic Plastics as Tunable Elastic and Visible Stent with Shape-Memory to Treat Biliary Stricture.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Feasibility and safety of a novel 3D-printed biodegradable biliary stent in an in vivo porcine model: a preliminary study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Clinically Relevant Late-Onset Biliary Complications After Pancreatoduodenectomy.World journal of surgery · 2022Article
- A New Biodegradable Stent to Improve the Management of Biliary Strictures in Pediatric Split Liver Transplantation.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2022Article
- Biliary complications in pediatric liver transplantation: findings of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography in a large single-center cohort.Pediatric radiology · 2022Article
- Endoscopic treatment of benign biliary stricture using different stents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Wideochirurgia i inne techniki maloinwazyjne = Videosurgery and other miniinvasive techniques · 2022Article
- Percutaneous Balloon Dilatation for Hepaticojejunostomy Stricture Following Paediatric Liver Transplantation: Long-Term Results of an Institutional "Three-Session" Protocol.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2022Article
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- Bio-Degradable Stents: Primary Experience in a Tertiary Hepatopancreaticobiliary Center in the United Kingdom.Cureus · 2021Article
- Percutaneous Management of Benign Biliary Strictures.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2021Review
- Indian College of Radiology and Imaging Evidence-Based Guidelines for Percutaneous Image-Guided Biliary Procedures.The Indian journal of radiology & imaging · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess mid-term outcome of biodegradable biliary stents (BBSs) to treat benign biliary strictures refractory to standard bilioplasty.
methodsInstitutional review board approval was obtained and patient consent was waived. 107 patients (61 males, 46 females, mean age 59 ± 16 years), were treated. Technical success and complications were recorded. Ninety-seven patients (55 males, 42 females, aged 57 ± 17 years) were considered for follow-up analysis (mean follow-up 23 ± 12 months). Fisher's exact test and Mann-Whitney U tests were used and a Kaplan-Meier curve was calculated.
resultsThe procedure was always feasible. In 2/107 cases (2 %), stent migration occurred (technical success 98 %). 4/107 patients (4 %) experienced mild haemobilia. No major complications occurred. In 19/97 patients (18 %), stricture recurrence occurred. In this group, higher rate of subsequent cholangitis (84.2 % vs. 12.8 %, p = 0.001) and biliary stones (26.3 % vs. 2.5 %, p = 0.003) was noted. Estimated mean time to stricture recurrence was 38 months (95 % C.I 34-42 months). Estimated stricture recurrence rate at 1, 2, and 3 years was respectively 7.2 %, 26.4 %, and 29.4 %.
conclusionPercutaneous placement of a BBS is a feasible and safe strategy to treat benign biliary strictures refractory to standard bilioplasty, with promising results in the mid-term period. KEY POINTS: • Percutaneous placement of a BBS is 100 % feasible. • The procedure appears free from major complications, with few minor complications. • BBSs offer promising results in the mid-term period. • With a BBS, external catheter/drainage can be removed early. • BBSs represent a new option in treating benign biliary stenosis.
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