ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
Percutaneous Transhepatic Electrohydraulic Lithotripsy for the Treatment of Difficult Bile Stones.
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- Efficacy and Safety of Percutaneous Transhepatic Lithotripsy Using SpyGlassDSTM Cholangioscopy for the Treatment of Difficult Stones.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Percutaneous transhepatic papillary ballooning and extraction for common bile duct stones: a single-center experience.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2024Article
- Cholangioscopy with Spyglass DS using percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography access: a retrospective cohort study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Endoscopic Management of Difficult Biliary Stones: An Evergreen Issue.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Review
- Factors influencing recurrence and model development for recurrence of minimally invasive percutaneous transhepatic lithotripsy: a single-center retrospective study.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
- The Role of Cholangioscopy in Biliary Diseases.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo evaluate the efficacy and safety of percutaneous transhepatic lithotripsy (PTL) using an electro-hydraulic (EH) system for difficult bile stones.
methodsWe retrospectively evaluated two patients with recurrent cholangitis, jaundice and fever for the presence of difficult bile stones, inaccessible by an endoscopic approach, treated with PTL. Both procedures were conducted using the same protocol, with two different accesses. The treatments were performed using a 10 Fr flexible choledoscopy SpyGlass DS
resultsTechnical success, clinical success and complications were evaluated. The two procedures were successfully concluded in both patients without any residual stones in the biliary tree. For both patients, a short follow-up period of six months was available, during which they remained asymptomatic. Neither major nor minor complications were registered.
conclusionPTL was determined to be an effective and safe technique. This procedure allows a direct visualization of the stone, reducing fluoroscopy time and permitting a less invasive and less traumatic method for the percutaneous management of difficult bile stones. Advances in knowledge: The direct visualization, the high quality of the digital view, the adequate length of the device and the less traumatic approach of EH systems represent advantages compared with other available technologies.
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