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Endoscopic treatment of the "sump syndrome" after choledochoduodenostomy: a new technique using an amplatzer septal occluder.
2006
A 58-year-old male patient had been suffering for 35 years from recurrent cholangitis, biliary sludge and infection-induced stone formation after open cholecystectomy because of empyema of the gallbladder and severe acute and delayed postoperative complications. The pathophysiological origin of this chronic "sump syndrome" was a choledochoduodenostomy which had been performed prophylactically at the time of the initial operation. The patient agreed to an experimental treatment option with use of an Amplatzer atrial-septal defect (ASD) occluder for closure of the symptomatic choledochoduodenal fistula. The double-disc occluder was introduced through a 9 French diameter and 90 cm long sheath …
REMOVED: Amplatzer septal occluder for endoscopic treatment of the “sump syndrome” after choledochoduodenostomy: a new technique
2006
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