Preventive pancreas stenting. Our results with prospectively collected data

Introduction: The most frequent complication of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP). Its incidency in the high risk population can even reach 40%. Aim: To analyze the database of our working group. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed our prospective database between 2009.05.01 and 2012.12.31. We inserted preventive pancreas stents (PPSs) in high risk patients (pts) during the ERCP procedure according to the ESGE guidelines (one of these criteria: papillectomy, known or suspected sphincter of Oddi (SO) dysfunction, pancreatic EST, precut biliary sphincterotomy, p…