Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of patients in the pre- and post-SBE groups.
| Pre-SBE (n = 54) |
Post-SBE (n = 39) |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 72.0 ± 9.3 | 70.2 ± 13.9 | 0.98 |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 37 (68.5%) | 28 (71.8%) | 0.73 |
| Female | 17 (31.5%) | 11 (28.2%) | |
| Indications of ERCP | |||
| Therapeutic ERCP | 45 (83.3%) | 31 (79.5%) | 0.64 |
| Biliary stones | 32 | 17 | |
| Malignant stenosis of the bile duct | 13 | 13 | |
| Benign stenosis of the bile duct | 0 | 1 | |
| Diagnostic ERCP | 9 (16.7%) | 8 (20.5%) | |
| Reconstruction surgeries | |||
| Billroth II | 45 (83.3%) | 20 (51.3%) | <0.001 |
| Roux-en-Y gastrectomy | 9 (16.7%) | 12 (30.8%) | |
| Roux-en-Y choledochojejunostomy | 0 | 7 (17.9%) |