A Pilot Study on the Use of Prophylactic Antibiotics for EUS-guided Pancreatic Cyst Aspiration

Summary

Our hypothesis is that a single dose of antibiotics at time of EUS-guided pancreatic cyst aspiration is equally effective to the usual regimen of 3 days of post-procedural antibiotics.

Timeline

Start

2014-01

Primary completion

2014-11

Completion

2014-11

Publications

• Background Jacobson BC, Baron TH, Adler DG, Davila RE, Egan J, Hirota WK, Leighton JA, Qureshi W, Rajan E, Zuckerman MJ, Fanelli R, Wheeler-Harbaugh J, Faigel DO; American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. ASGE guideline: The role of endoscopy in the diagnosis and the management of cystic lesions and inflammatory fluid collections of the pancreas. Gastrointest Endosc. 2005 Mar;61(3):363-70. doi: 10.1016/s0016-5107(04)02779-8. No abstract available.
• Background Lee LS, Saltzman JR, Bounds BC, Poneros JM, Brugge WR, Thompson CC. EUS-guided fine needle aspiration of pancreatic cysts: a retrospective analysis of complications and their predictors. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2005 Mar;3(3):231-6. doi: 10.1016/s1542-3565(04)00618-4.

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