It is reported in the literature titled ¿application and usefulness of a new eight-wire basket catheter for endoscopic extraction of small common bile duct stones: a retrospective multicenter study,¿ patients experienced adverse events after procedures using multiple olympus devices.Case with patient identifier (b)(6) reports jf:260v.Case with patient identifier (b)(6) reports tjf-q290v.Case with patient identifier (b)(6) reports b-v231p-a.Objectives: distally located small common bile duct stones are often difficult to treat or grasp endoscopically.Therefore, multiple devices, such as baskets or balloon catheters, are frequently used in such cases.However, itis desirable to use a single device for stone extraction from the perspective of cost-effectiveness.In this multicenter study, we evaluated the efficacy of a new eight-wire basket catheter for extracting small (=10 mm) common bile duct stones.Methods: we retrospectively analyzed the records of 144 patients who underwent stone extraction using the eight-wire basket catheter for common bile duct stones=10 mm.The success rate of complete stone extraction and the risk factors for the difficulty in stone extraction with the eight-wire catheter alone were mainly evaluated.Results: the success rate of stone extraction with the eight-wire catheter alone was 86.1%.The final rate of complete stone extraction was 98.0%.The mean of the maximum diameter of the common bile duct and the largest stone dimension were 10.5±3.5, and 5.1±2.1 mm, respectively.Common bile duct diameter=12 mm and stone diameter=6 mm were identified as independent risk factors for the difficulty in stone extraction with the eight-wire catheter alone.Conclusions: the success rate of the new eight-wire basket for small common bile duct stone extraction was acceptable.The device is beneficial and could be used from the start for the extraction of small stones<6 mm.Complications occurred in 2.7%, in the form of post-ercp pancreatitis in two patients and post-est bleeding in two patients.The severity of the complications was mild in all cases.There is no report of olympus device malfunction reported in any procedure described in this study.
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This report is being supplemented to provide additional information received, from the authoring physician and the legal manufacturer's final investigation.The authoring physician confirmed, there was no olympus device malfunction.The contingencies were common ones that can occur with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp), and are unlikely to have been caused by the olympus devices.The serial lot numbers of the olympus devices used in the study are unknown.Based on the results of the final investigation, it is likely that the reported event is an accident or a complication associated with a surgical procedure using the subject device.However, the specific root cause could not be determined at this time.Olympus will continue to monitor field performance for this device.
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