EUS-guided rendezvous vs ERCP for dominant strictures

What is known

• The excerpts describe EUS-guided biliary drainage only in the general setting of cholangitis and biliary obstruction, as an alternative to ERCP and percutaneous drainage. ¹

What is unknown / caveats

• The retrieved evidence does not contain any study of endoscopic ultrasound–guided rendezvous versus conventional ERCP for dominant biliary strictures beyond the second hepatic duct, so no comparative claim can be made from this corpus.
• No data specific to PSC dominant strictures, proximal/intrahepatic stricture location, or a rendezvous technique.

References

1. Mohammad Alizadeh AH. Cholangitis: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis. J Clin Transl Hepatol. 2017. PMID: 29226107.

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