For decades, many doctors believed that a certain endoscopic procedure could help prevent repeated episodes of pancreatitis in people with a specific birth defect of the pancreas. But now, a large new ...

Aggressive periprocedural hydration did not reduce the incidence of post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) pancreatitis in patients with moderate to high risk of developing this ...

In malignant distal biliary obstruction, EUS-CDS — a new endoscopic technique — lowers the risk for postprocedural ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is linked to postprocedure pancreatitis, although such pancreatitis occurs in only a small proportion of patients. Studies of pharmacologic ...

A large national survey of Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) practitioners and units, including organisational characteristics, revealed the persistence of low-volume practitioners ...

A pancreatic biopsy is a diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. It involves taking a sample of cells from tissue or a tumor in the pancreas and sending it for laboratory analysis. Types of biopsy for ...

Nearly 68,000 people in the United States are expected to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, and incidence rates are rising. While the five-year survival rate has improved to ...

A multicenter clinical trial published in JAMA has found that a long-used endoscopic procedure does not prevent recurrent ...