Lack of Association Between Proton Pump Inhibitor (PPI) Use and Early Plastic Biliary Stent Occlusion
There are data suggesting that long-term use of PPIs may lead to small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Plastic biliary stents are used to maintain patency of the biliary tract in a variety of benign and malignant disorders and are changed prophylactically every 3 months to avoid symptomatic stent o...
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/4264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gie.2011.03.764 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php http://www.giejournal.org/article/S0016-5107(11)00984-9/abstract |
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