ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2024
Endoscopic Gallbladder Drainage: A Comprehensive Review on Indications, Techniques, and Future Perspectives.
Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07655778 (Multicenter Comparative Clinical Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers.
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The trial behind it
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Multicenter Comparative Clinical Trial: EUS-Guided Gallbladder Drainage Versus Conservative Management in Patients Unfit for Surgery After a Biliary Event Without Cholecystitis. DRECON Study: (DRainage, Endoscopic Ultrasound, CONservative)
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage for Malignant Distal Biliary Obstruction: Current Evidence, Technical Considerations, and Future Directions.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Technical Evolution, Clinical Application, and Outcomes of Endoscopic Transpapillary Gallbladder Drainage in Acute Cholecystitis: A Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Clinical Challenges in Acute Cholecystitis: Endoscopic Drainage Strategies (EUS-GBD vs. ET-GBD) in Patients with Surgical Contraindications.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Evaluating Percutaneous Gallbladder Drainage: 10-Year Outcomes From a Large District General Hospital in the UK.Cureus · 2026Article
- Endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage for acute cholecystitis: Should the endoscopic option become the status quo?World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics · 2026Review
- The Effect of Lumen-Apposing Metal Stent (LAMS) in Acute Cholecystitis Unfit for Surgery: Good Tidings.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Percutaneous, transpapillary, and transmural drainage in acute cholecystitis: a comparative analysis of techniques, stent selection, and clinical.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Review
- The Palliation of Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer: Evolution from Surgery to Minimally Invasive Modalities.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Latest Advances in Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio as a predictor of conservative treatment failure in acute cholecystitis: a retrospective cohort study.BMC surgery · 2025Article
- Case Report: First case of percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopy guided triple bridge drainage between multiple bile ducts for malignant hilar biliary obstruction.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Outcomes of Gallbladder Drainage Techniques in Acute Cholecystitis: Percutaneous Versus Endoscopic Methods.Cureus · 2024Review
- A review of endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage and gastroenterostomy: assisted approaches and comparison with alternative techniques.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2024Review
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9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
In recent years, therapeutic endoscopy has become a fundamental tool in the management of gallbladder diseases in light of its minimal invasiveness, high clinical efficacy, and good safety profile. Both endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage (TGBD) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) provide effective internal drainage in patients with acute cholecystitis unfit for cholecystectomy, avoiding the drawbacks of external percutaneous gallbladder drainage (PGBD). The availability of dedicated lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) for EUS-guided transluminal interventions contributed to the expansion of endoscopic therapies for acute cholecystitis, making endoscopic gallbladder drainage easier, faster, and hence more widely available. Moreover, EUS-GBD with LAMS opened the possibility of several cholecystoscopy-guided interventions, such as gallstone lithotripsy and clearance. Finally, EUS-GBD has also been proposed as a rescue drainage modality in malignant biliary obstruction after failure of standard techniques, with encouraging results. In this review, we will describe the TBGD and EUS-GBD techniques, and we will discuss the available data on clinical efficacy in different settings in comparison with PGBD. Finally, we will comment on the future perspectives of EUS-GBD, discussing the areas of uncertainty in which new data are more strongly awaited.
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