Endoscopic ultrasound-guided transmural and percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage are comparable for acute cholecystitis

Abstract

respectively). Using the cut-off value for strain ratio of 2.25, 17 out of the 22 patients (77.3%) with 3 or 4 EUS criteria of CP had an abnormal pancreas, whereas 5 patients had a strain ratio <2.25. Importantly, even in patients with epigastric pain, the strain ratio was significantly higher in those finally diagnosed as CP (2.68, 95% CI 2.48-2.89) than in whom the disease was excluded (1.80, 95% CI 1.73-1.87; P < 0.0001).