The Usefulness of Virtual Fluoroscopic Preprocedural Planning During Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage

Mitsuhiro Kinoshita, Ryozo Shirono, Katsuya Takechi, Hironobu Yonekura, Seiji Iwamoto, Takayoshi Shinya, Shoichiro Takao, Masafumi Harada

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Abstract

Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the usefulness of virtual fluoroscopic preprocedural planning (VFPP) in the percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) procedure. Materials and Methods: Twenty-two patients who were treated by PTBD were included in this study. Twelve patients were treated using PTBD intraoperative referencing coronal computed tomography (CT) images (i.e., coronal CT group), and ten patients were treated using PTBD intraoperative referencing VFPP images (i.e., VFPP group). To analyze the effect of the intraoperative referencing VFPP image, the VFPP group was retrospectively compared with the coronal CT group. Results: The characteristics of both patient groups were not statistically significantly different. There were no significant differences in the targeted bile duct, diameter and depth of the target bile, breath-holding ability, number of targeted bile duct puncture attempts, change in the targeted bile duct, and exchange of the drainage catheter. However, the X-ray fluoroscopy time and the procedure time were significantly shorter in the VFPP group than in the coronal CT group (196 vs. 334 s, P < 0.05; and 16.0 vs. 27.2 min, P < 0.05). Conclusion: Intraoperative referencing using the VFPP imaging in PTBD intuitively can be a useful tool for better localization of the guidewire in the bile duct and thereby shorten the X-ray fluoroscopy time and procedure time while minimizing radiation exposure and complications.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)894-901
Number of pages8
JournalCardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume40
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 1 2017

Keywords

  • Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage
  • Procedure time
  • Ray Summation image
  • Virtual fluoroscopic preprocedural planning
  • Virtual fluoroscopy
  • X-ray fluoroscopy time

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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