EUS-Guided Gallbladder Drainage Using a Lumen-Apposing Metal Stent for Acute Cholecystitis: Results of a Nationwide Study with Long-Term Follow-Up

• Published in: Diagnostics (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 4; p. 413
• Main Authors: Binda, Cecilia, Anderloni, Andrea, Forti, Edoardo, Fusaroli, Pietro, Macchiarelli, Raffaele, Manno, Mauro, Fugazza, Alessandro, Redaelli, Alessandro, Aragona, Giovanni, Lovera, Mauro, Togliani, Thomas, Armellini, Elia, Amato, Arnaldo, Brancaccio, Mario Luciano, Badas, Roberta, Leone, Nicola, de Nucci, Germana, Mangiavillano, Benedetto, Sbrancia, Monica, Pollino, Valeria, Lisotti, Andrea, Maida, Marcello, Sinagra, Emanuele, Ventimiglia, Marco, Repici, Alessandro, Fabbri, Carlo, Tarantino, Ilaria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 01.02.2024
• Subjects: acute cholecystitis; Analysis; Anticoagulants; Care and treatment; Catheters; Cholecystectomy; Cholecystitis; Endoscopy; EUS-guided drainage; EUS-guided gallbladder drainage; Gallbladder; Gallbladder diseases; lumen apposing metal stent; Medical equipment and supplies industry; Medical prognosis; Medical test kit industry; Mortality; Patients; Performance evaluation; Regression analysis; Stent (Surgery); Stents; Success; Ultrasonic imaging; United States; United States > US; Italy; acute cholecystitis; EUS-guided gallbladder drainage; EUS-guided drainage; lumen apposing metal stent

Background: Although endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder drainage (EUS-GBD) using lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) has become one of the treatments of choice for acute cholecystitis (AC) in fragile patients, scant data are available on real-life settings and long-term outcomes. Methods: We pe...