Transpapillary nanoelectroimpulse choledocholithotripsy under the visualization of SpyGlass imaging

Abstract

The clinical case of treatment of the patient with gallstone disease complicated by phlegmonous calculous cholecystitis, choledocholithiasis, obstructive jaundice and purulent cholangitis is presented. The combination of such dangerous complications requires urgent surgical treatment, the minimum amount of which is cholecystectomy and bile duct external drainage at the first stage of treatment. In this case, the simultaneous elimination of choledocholithiasis was considered unjustifiably traumatic and not rational due to the large size of the concretion (13 mm). We also decided to refuse the wide endoscopic papillosphincterotomy. At the second stage of treatment, under the control of transpapillary choledochoscopy, nanoelectroimpulse choledocholithotripsy was performed with the destruction of a dense concretion of choledochus without damaging the surrounding tissues and the sphincter apparatus of the large papilla of the duodenum, which eliminates the likelihood of complications arising after papillosphincterotomy.