Management of biliary stricture in patients with IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis.

BACKGROUND:We aimed to determine the optimal approach with endoscopic biliary drainage (EBD) and corticosteroid (CS) for the treatment of IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis (ISC). METHODS:To evaluate the safety of EBD for treatment of biliary stricture caused by ISC, we assessed the risk of stent d...

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Main Authors: Masaki Miyazawa, Hajime Takatori, Kazunori Kawaguchi, Kazuya Kitamura, Kuniaki Arai, Koichiro Matsuda, Takeshi Urabe, Katsuhisa Inamura, Takuya Komura, Hideki Mizuno, Uichiro Fuchizaki, Taro Yamashita, Yoshio Sakai, Tatsuya Yamashita, Eishiro Mizukoshi, Masao Honda, Shuichi Kaneko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232089