Table 3.
Comparison with international published studies in terms of sample volume, success and complication rates
| Richards et al31 |
Colton and Curran32 |
Garcia-Cano
et al 33 |
Kostrzewska et al34 |
Christensen et al35 |
Kwak et al36 |
Cotton et al37 |
Our centre |
|
| Number of ERCP | 445 | 805 | 507 | 734 | 1177 | 1079 | 11 497 | 1909 |
| Cannulation rate (%) | 92.3 | 94.0 | 94.9 | 91.7 | 95.0 | – | – | 95.7 |
| All complications (%) | 8.99 | 5.00 | 10.85 | 3.54 | 15.9 | 9.8 | 4.0 | 5 |
| Severe complications (%) | 1.35 | 0.50 | 3.35 | 0.28 | 1.7 | – | 0.36 | – |
| Mortality (%) | 0.22 | 0 | 0.79 | – | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.06 | 0.6 |
| Haemorrhage (%) | 1.35 | 0.62 | 1.6 | 1.50 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
| PEP (%) | 5.20 | 3.20 | 5.5 | 1.09 | 3.8 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| Perforation (%) | 0.45 | 0.12 | 1.4 | – | 1.1 | 0.6 | – | 0.4 |
| Cholangitis/infection (%) | 0.90 | 0.75 | 1.3 | 0.95 | 5.0 | 3.7 | – | 1.0 |
ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; PEP, post-ERCP pancreatitis.