Microbiological Assessment of Bile in Patients Undergone to Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiography (ERCP): the "Microbile Registry"

Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale della Romagna

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Jaundice; Malignant; Jaundice, Obstructive; Biliary Disease; Biliary Stricture; Choledocholithiasis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06115564

4549/2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is a prospective evaluation of the microbial assessment in patients undergoing to ERC with naive papilla; the population includes all the indication to biliary drainage.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Main inclusion criteria for patient enrollment were: ability to provide an informed consent; age >/=18 years; any benignant or malignant ERCP indication.

All subjects were excluded from the study:

• Patients who have already undergone endoscopic sphincterotomy
• Patients unable to express informed consent
• Pregnant or breastfeeding women
• Patients with anatomical post-surgical alterations of the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract