Dilation of a severe bilioenteric or pancreatoenteric anastomotic stricture using a Soehendra Stent Retriever.
Bilioenteric or pancreatoenteric anastomotic strictures often occur after surgery for a pancreaticobiliary disorder. Therapeutic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography using balloon enteroscopy has been shown to be feasible and effective in patients with such strictures. However, when a benign anastomotic stricture is severe, a dilation catheter cannot pass through the stricture despite successful insertion of the guidewire. We report on the usefulness of the Soehendra Stent Retriever over a guidewire for dilating a severe bilioenteric or pancreatoenteric anastomotic stricture under short double-balloon enteroscopy, in two patients with surgically altered anatomies.
Koichiro Tsutsumi, Hironari Kato, Ichiro Sakakihara, Naoki Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Noma, Shigeru Horiguchi, Ryo Harada, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan.
Koichiro
K
Tsutsumi
Hironari
H
Kato
Ichiro
I
Sakakihara
Naoki
N
Yamamoto
Yasuhiro
Y
Noma
Shigeru
S
Horiguchi
Ryo
R
Harada
Hiroyuki
H
Okada
Kazuhide
K
Yamamoto
Bilioenteric anastomotic stricture; Dilation; Double-balloon enteroscopy; Pancreatoenteric anastomotic stricture; Soehendra Stent Retriever