Clinical Procedures – Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP) Indications • Diagnostic: largely superseded by safer modalities such as endoscopic ultrasound and MRI/MRCP. Diagnostic indications include sphincter of Oddi dysfunction and primary sclerosing cholangitis • Therapeutic: endoscopic sphincterotomy (biliary and pancreatic), removal of stones, dilation of strictures (e.g. primary sclerosing cholangitis), stent placement. Contraindications • Lack of informed consent, uncooperative patient, recent attack of pancreatitis, recent Ml, history of contrast anaphylaxis, severe cardiopulmonary disease, futility (anticipated short-term survival with no features of sepsis). Procedure An ERCP involves the passage of an endoscope into the duodenum. The endoscopist injects contrast medium through the ampulla of Vater via a catheter. Real-time fluoroscopy is used to visualize the pancreas and biliary tree. Selected images are taken. • Dentures (if present) are removed • Patient is given anaesthetic throat spray (lidocaine) and sometimes IV sedation/analgesia (e.g. midazolam, pethidine) • Patient lies on the couch in a modified left lateral ('swimmer's") position with the left arm adducted and the right abducted. The endoscope is inserted as for OGD • Under x-ray guidance, a polyethylene catheter is inserted into the biliary tree and contrast instilled to outline the pancreatic duct as well as the common bile duct and its tributaries • Procedure time varies from 30-90 minutes. Risks • Pancreatitis (2-9% of procedures of which 10% of cases are mild-moderate). Serum amylase is temporarily raised in 70% • Infection (ascending cholangitis, acute cholecystitis, infected pancreatic pseudocyst, liver abscess, endocarditis • Bleeding, perforation of the oesophagus, duodenum, bile ducts • Failure of gallstone retrieval • Prolonged pancreatic stenting associated with stent occlusion, pancreatic duct obstruction, pseudocyst formation • Basket impaction around a large gallstone (may require surgery). Patient Preparation • Blood tests: liver enzymes, platelets and clotting are checked prior to the procedure. • Nil by mouth: 4 hours except in the case of an emergency. • Antibiotic prophylaxis: recommended for: • Patients in whom biliary decompression is unlikely to be achieved at a single procedure (e.g. dilatation of dominant stricture in multifocal sclerosing cholangitis or hilar cholangiocarcinoma) • Consider also in patients with severe neutropenia (<0.5 × 109/L) and/ or profound immunocompromise. Other Information • © I sedation and analgesia is usually administered and the back of the throat is sprayed with local anaesthetic • Hilar biliary obstruction demonstrated on MR or CT imaging may be more successfully stented using percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) than ERCP • Equipment allowing direct cholangioscopy (with the potential for sampling lesions) is becoming more widely available.
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