Results: SEMS was successfully implanted in all patients, and clinical success rate was 100%. The operations were subtotal gastrectomy with Billroth-II reconstruction (n = 3), radical distal ...

Introduction Duodenal fistulas are associated with a significant morbidity and mortality primarily due to complications such as sepsis. We present a case of a 55-year-old woman with metastatic ...

Less severe complications included stent migration (5%), pain (2%), biliary obstruction (1%) and stent obstruction (17%). Survival data were available for 458 patients, among whom the mean ...

Stent Verus Surgical Approach to Enteral Obstruction Endoscopic placement of enteral SEMS is typically performed using moderate sedation and analgesia, rather than general anesthesia, in an ...

Review Article Published: March 2007 Therapy Insight: diabetes and drug-eluting stents Victor Legrand Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine 4, 143–150 (2007) Cite this article ...

Review Article Published: March 2007 Complications of antiobesity surgery Ninh T Nguyen & Samuel E Wilson Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology 4, 138–147 (2007) Cite this article ...

The SOUL trial (NCT05866081) is an ongoing study to assess patient-reported outcomes and unplanned health care utilization among patients who had stent placement vs patients who had stent omission ...

Background A critical evaluation of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendation to avoid intracranial stent placement (ICAS) within 7 days of a qualifying cerebral ischemic event. Methods ...

By 2021, most stent procurement volume tilt toward underdeveloped regions. The procurement volume of selected stents increased by 120.5% in 2021 compared with 2019, comprising 95.5% of the annual ...

The safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) has been called into question by studies suggesting a predisposition to late stent thrombosis—an uncommon but potentially fatal complication.1–4 Consequently, ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, claiming over 700,000 lives in 2022 alone. Heart disease occurs when the arteries that supply the heart muscle become narrow due to ...

Lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMS) have been recently developed to improve treatment outcomes in the endoscopic management of pancreatic fluid collections (PFC), particularly in walled-off necrosis ...