Pancreatic duct stent placement prevents post-ERCP pancreatitis in patients with suspected sphincter of Oddi dysfunction but normal manometry results

✍ Scribed by Abdo M. Saad; Evan L. Fogel; Lee McHenry; James L. Watkins; Stuart Sherman; Laura Lazzell-Pannell; Glen A. Lehman

• Book ID: 119245052
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 178 KB
• Volume: 67
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1097-6779
• DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2007.06.022

✦ Synopsis

Background: Placement of a pancreatic duct (PD) stent reduces post-ERCP pancreatitis rates in high-risk patients. Patients with suspected sphincter of Oddi dysfunction (SOD) who are found to have normal manometry results (SOM) are also at high risk for this complication.

Objective: Our purpose was to determine whether PD stent placement reduces pancreatitis rates in this patient population.