Successful Treatment of Recurrent Biliary Anastomotic Stricture with Drug-coated Balloon Dilation
Malcolm Guan Hin Yeo, Hao Xiang · 2026
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Yeo and colleagues present a 2026 case report of a stubborn bile duct narrowing cured with a drug-coated balloon. The patient, a 72-year-old woman, had a surgical join between bile duct and bowel after surgery for bile duct cancer. The join kept narrowing despite standard balloon stretching by scope and through the skin, and she returned ten times over three years with bile duct infections.
Doctors then stretched the narrowing with a balloon coated in paclitaxel, a drug that slows scar tissue growth, borrowed from heart artery practice. The join stayed open for the following two years, with no further hospital visits. Recurrent benign narrowing is a grinding problem: each infection risks the liver. One durable result in one patient cannot set practice, but it justifies testing coated balloons in more of these hard cases.
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| CREATOR | Malcolm Guan Hin Yeo, Hao Xiang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |