Our report presents a technique of necrotic tissue removal during transmural drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN) that is an alternative to the one that has already been described in the ...

Transluminal endoscopic necrosectomy represents a true natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgical procedure. Endoscopic necrosectomy is increasingly gaining traction as primary therapy for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Upfront endoscopic necrosectomy significantly reduced the number of reinterventions needed for treatment success ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Lumen-apposing metal stents for endoscopic drainage were not superior to double-pigtail plastic stents in ...

Traditionally pancreatic necrosis has been treated by open necrosectomy via laparotomy, but image-guided drainage or laparoscopic drainage may also be used. With the patient under general anaesthesia, ...

Upfront endoscopic necrosectomy may be suitable for certain patients with confirmed or suspected infected necrotizing pancreatitis, results of a small randomized trial suggested. In 70 patients ...

This section describes safety outcomes from the published literature that the committee considered as part of the evidence about this procedure. For more detailed information on the evidence, see the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the EndoRotor System (Interscope, Inc) for removal of necrotic tissue in patients with walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WOPN). "This device has ...

Interscope, Inc. announced the receipt of FDA de novo clearance to market its EndoRotor System in the United States for direct endoscopic necrosectomy (DEN), a minimally invasive treatment for ...

The U.S. FDA granted de novo marketing authorization to Interscope Inc.’s Endorotor system for direct endoscopic necrosectomy (DEN) of walled-off pancreatic necrosis, giving the specialty device a ...

Background A 50-year-old man with an acute episode of alcohol-induced chronic edematous pancreatitis and an inflammatory stenosis of the biliary tract was treated by implantation of a plastic ...