Re: Risk Factors for Post-ERCP Pancreatitis: A Prospective Multicenter Study

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My husband was told that about 3 in every 100,000 develop

pancreatitis following an ERCP. Well, we stopped asking about " odds "

anymore - he has had 5 ERCPs and developed severe pancreatits 3

times - once involving passing out at home, and all 3 times requiring

a week in the hospital to recover from this

excrutiating " complication. " Drs won't do them now unless absolutely

necessary given his reaction and also that his bile ducts are so

paper thin.

Question: we were never told a stage of PSC. Only thing is that

march, 2005 he developed diabetes which they related to early stage

liver failure.

After reading posts, I already have a list of a million questions to

ask his new doctor, Dr. Tung, at the University of Washington Medical

Center.

(Puyallup, WA - husband Tom, 40, PSC '94)