Retained Biliary Plastic Stents: Clinical Presentation, Complications, and Management

Abstract

Background Biliary plastic stent (PS) mandates timely removal or replacement. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had affected the accessibility to medical therapy resulting in delay. We evaluated the burden of retained biliary PS, clinical profile, and impact of COVID-19 pandemic on stent retention.

Keywords

• biliary plastic stents
• retained stent
• choledocholithiasis
• jaundice
• cholangitis endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography