As shown in previous chapters, pancreatitis, bleeding, and perforation represent the most common adverse events following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ERCP. However, there is a very wide range of other ERCP-related complications which occasionally may occur, such as post-procedural infections (cholangitis and cholecystitis), pneumothorax, hepatic hematomas, air embolism, splenic injury, basket/stent impaction, and other very uncommon complications. Although rare, these adverse events may be potentially life-threatening and difficult to be promptly diagnosed since the symptomatic onset is very similar at the beginning. Moreover, there is a large body of evidence showing that the occurrence of unusual complications is not predictable, even by skilled operators, and challenging to be managed.
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Paolo, Z. F., Ugo, G., Alessandra, D. A., Angelo, Z., & Manta, R. (2020). Miscellany complications of ERCP. In Endotherapy in Biliopancreatic Diseases: ERCP Meets EUS: Two Techniques for One Vision (pp. 369–375). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42569-2_34
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