Cholecystectomy following EUS-guided gallbladder drainage in patients with acute cholecystitis at high surgical risk: friend or foe?

Affiliations

• ¹ Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy alberto.larghi@yahoo.it.
• ² Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Amsterdam UMC, Locatie VUmc, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.
• ³ Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Imelda General Hospital, Belgium, Bonheiden, Belgium.
• ⁴ Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy and Endosonography Division, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Roma, Italy.
• ⁶ Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Rio Hortega, Valladolid, Spain.
• ⁷ Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ⁸ Gastroenterology, Hopital Nord, Marseille Cedex 20, France.
• ⁹ CHROMETA, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.