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DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1724915
EUS-Guided Gallbladder Drainage To The Rescue In A Patient That Recovered From Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly affected every country and overwhelmed many healthcare systems. Intensive care treatment may be needed for extended durations. Patients experience consequences of respiratory illness and post-intensive care illness (1,2).
Endoscopic procedures, such as endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder transmural drainage, can reduce surgical interventions, intensive-care admissions, and long-term complications (3).
EUS-guided gallbladder drainage is efficient and safe, with a low rate of adverse events.
A 54-year-old man, recently recovered from severe COVID-19+ pneumonia and still judged unfit for futhher intubation, was treated by EUS-guided gallbladder drainage for severe acute cholecistytis by a 10x15-mm electrocautery-enhanced lumen-apposing stent.
Citation Armellini E, Rubertà F, Pezzoli I et al. eP425V EUS-GUIDED GALLBLADDER DRAINAGE TO THE RESCUE IN A PATIENT THAT RECOVERED FROM COVID-19. Endoscopy 2021; 53: S235.
Publication History
Article published online:
19 March 2021
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