Olympus medical systems corp.(omsc) received a literature titled ¿can trainees safely perform endoscopic treatments for common bile duct stones? a single-center retrospective study¿.The literature reported the result of ercp (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) procedures for 325 patients at the user facility between january 2009 and december 2014.In the subject procedures, pancreatitis occurred in 39 patients, cholangitis occurred in 7 patients and bleeding occurred in 5 patients.The literature reported that olympus duodenovideoscope (tjf-240 and jf-260v), colonovideoscope (cf-q240ai) and gastrointestinalvideoscope (gif-2t260m) were used in the procedures.There was no information on which model of the endoscope was used in each procedure.Further detailed information could not been obtained at present.According to the number of the type of complication (pancreatitis, cholangitis and bleeding), omsc is submitting 3 medical device reports for each endoscope model (total 12 of mdrs).This is a report on cholangitis in gif-2t260m and 11 of 12 reports.
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