Renal Excretion of Contrast After a Complicated Ercp: A Rare Complication?

A 22 years old woman came to our Hospital with abdominal pain and choledocolithiasis in abdominal ultrasound. An ERCP was requested, seeing the flow of the constrast throught the ureter during the procedure. A mild acute pancreatitis after ERCP was diagnosed.

The renal excretion of contrast during an ERCP is a complication described previously, due to over injection of contrast in the Wirsung, and the subsequent intravascular presence of this contrast.

It is associated with acute pancreatitis after ERCP, and it could be more frequent than we can imagine, but it is misdiagnosed in most of the cases.

Citation Garrido F, Villa JC, Martínez-Alcalá Á et al. eP364V RENAL EXCRETION OF CONTRAST AFTER A COMPLICATED ERCP: A RARE COMPLICATION? Endoscopy 2021; 53: S215.

Publication History

Article published online:
19 March 2021