Figure 3.

Magnetic compression method in patients with complete biliary obstruction after living-donor liver transplantation. (a) Complete obstruction of a relatively long bile duct in cholangiography. (b) A magnet combined with a polypectomy snare was delivered via endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) through the common bile duct. Another magnet was fixed to an alligator forceps and moved toward the anastomosis site through a percutaneous tract. (c) The magnets were approximated. (d) Two endoscopic retrograde biliary drainage (ERBD) catheters were inserted through the re-canalized tract