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DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-9004
High Complication Rate of Bile Duct Stents in Patients With Chronic Alcoholic Pancreatitis Due to Noncompliance
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Publikationsdatum:
31. Dezember 2000 (online)
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Background and Study Aims: Biliary obstruction in chronic pancreatitis is frequently treated by endoscopic insertion of a plastic stent into the common bile duct, a therapy regarded as having a low complication rate. The aim of this study is to analyze the frequency and severity of complications caused by biliary stents in patients with chronic alcoholic pancreatitis.
Patients and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed all our patients with chronic pancreatitis (n = 14) who were provided with a plastic stent for biliary stenosis between June 1993 and December 1997. Stent exchanges were followed until December 1998.
Results: Stent insertion was performed without early complications and was successful in each patient. Only two patients were admitted after 3 - 4 months at the scheduled dates for stent exchange, both without complications. In one of these patients, the bile duct stenosis was reopened after two stent exchanges over a total period of 8 months. Most of our patients (n = 12) did not come at the arranged dates for stent exchange. They were repeatedly admitted (mean 2.9 times/patient, range 1 - 5) as emergency cases with severe complications of biliary obstruction, such as cholangitis or biliary sepsis. Reopening of the bile duct stenosis was not achieved in these patients.
Conclusions: We associate the high rate of complications with the noncompliance of our patients, who were all alcoholics. The high incidence of late complications in noncompliant patients is a limitation of biliary stenting, and appears to be potentially harmful.
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M.D. K. Kiehne
I. Dept. of Medicine Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel
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