Background: Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) plays a significant role especially in the palliation of an endoscopically inaccessible biliary system. Since a standard technique of PTBD is not defined, we compared a fluoroscopically guided technique (F-PTBD) with an ultrasound (US-PTBD) guided approach. Patients and Methods: Procedure characteristics, success-rates and complication-rates of the different PTBD techniques were compared in patients who underwent PTBD between October 1, 2006, and -December 31, 2014. Results: In 195 patients, 251 PTBDs (207 F-PTBDs, 44 US-PTBDs) were performed. F-PTBDs were mostly inserted from the right and US-PTBDs from the left. Patient age, gender and physical status were comparable in both techniques. There was no difference regarding overall procedure success (90%/86.4%), overall interventional complication rates (10.6%/9.1%), fluoroscopy times, intervention times or sedatives dosages. However, major complications were only encountered in F-PTBDs. There was a higher success rate for F-PTBD vs. US-PTBD from the right side (91.9 vs. 75%; p = 0.033) and a trend towards a higher success rate for US guidance from the left side (82.9 vs. 95.8%; p = 0.223). Conclusions: For drainage of the right biliary system F-PTBD seems superior over the US-PTBD technique used in this study. However, major complications can occur more frequently in F-PTBD.

Keywords:
Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage, Fluoroscopy, Ultrasound, Malignant biliary stricture, Complications
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