Keywords: anastomotic obstruction, self-expandable metal stents, gastric cancer, gastrojejunostomy, esophagojejunostomy. Citation: Lai H, Wu K, Liu Y, Li D, Peng T, Wan Y and Zhang B (2025) Clinical ...

Methods Due to the complexity of the case and patients’ poor nutritional status she was not deemed to be a surgical candidate and thus referred for endoscopic management.. Following MDT discussions, a ...

Most patients with jaundice required biliary stent placement (71% of type 1 and 77% of type 2 AIP). Relapses were more common in patients with type 1 (31%) versus type 2 AIP (9%, p ... (ie, ...

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 ...

Expert Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012;6(1):105-114. When double-stent placement (duodenal and biliary) is considered, biliary stent placement can be performed either preceding or following ...

Individuals with diabetes mellitus have worse outcomes, and particularly a higher rate of restenosis, following revascularization than those without diabetes. The advent of drug-eluting stents has ...

Despite recent advances in the field of medical and radiation oncology, and the introduction of neoadjuvant and adjuvant regimens, surgery remains the single most important modality for the ...

Khurshid R. Ghani, MBChB, MS, FRCS, discusses how results from the SOUL trial may shape clinical decision-making regarding stent placement. The SOUL trial (NCT05866081) is an ongoing study to assess ...

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, ...

Stents: A Common Treatment. One of the most common treatments for coronary artery disease is placement of a coronary stent. This minimally invasive procedure involves inserting a thin tube through an ...