The joint American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Task Force on Quality in Endoscopy has issued updated quality indicators for all ...

Despite the outbreak of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections linked to duodenoscopes, healthcare providers should not cancel endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedures for ...

A therapeutic endoscopic procedure provides treatment that is carried out via the endoscope. A procedure, which starts as a diagnostic or screening endoscopy, may become a therapeutic endoscopy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Endoscopists and centers that performed a high volume of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a medical technique that is used primarily to investigate and treat pathologies involving the biliary tree and pancreatic ducts. Image Credit: ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Single-use duodenoscopes offered similar technical and safety outcomes in endoscopic retrograde ...

Post-cholecystectomy pain (abdominal pain after gallbladder removal) is a common clinical problem. More than 700,000 patients undergo cholecystectomy each year in the United States, and at least 10 ...

In patients with unexplained acute recurrent pancreatitis who have pancreas divisum, the widely used procedure endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with minor papillotomy does not ...

ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- A study in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine shows a serious complication of ERCP, a procedure commonly used to diagnose and treat problems of the bile and ...

A medical complication can be defined as an undesired event that requires an unscheduled or prolonged hospital stay. 1 It can also be described as an adverse event that requires a deviation from the ...

ERCP is the acronym for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. It is a medical technique that employs a combination of fluoroscopy and endoscopy to diagnose and treat disorders affecting the ...