ObjectiveTo explore the safety and efficacy of endoscopic treatment for choledocholithiasis in patients with decompensated cirrhosis.MethodsA total of 104 cases of choledocholithiasis with decompensated cirrhosis were treated by ERCP in our hospital between January 2001 and March 2011.ChildPugh grading and model for end stage liver diseases (MELD) were investigated pre-ERCP and 2 weeks post-ERCP.Complication and mortality during the follow-up were recorded.ResultsThe success rates of complete stone retrieval was 92.3％ (96/104),and plastic stent was placed in other 8.Major complications ineluded post-ERCP bleeding in 9 cases (8.7％) and pancreatitis in 8 (7.7％ ).MELD score valuated 2weeks after ERCP ( 10.1 ± 6.3 ) was significantly lower than that of pre-ERCP ( 1 1.9 ± 6.2,t =2.22,P ＜0.05).The Child-Pugh grading before ERCP of 104 patients were 28 in grade A (26.9％ ),52 in grade B (50.0％ ) and 24 in grade C (23.1％ ),which was significantly different from those of 2 weeks after ERCP (40/52/12).No death was recorded during hospital stay for choledocholithiasis,and 2 patients of Child-Pugh grade C died in 3 months after discharge.ConclusionERCP is an effective method for choledocholi-thiasis in patients with decompensated cirrhosis.The main severe complication was post-ERCP bleeding.Those patients with decompensated cirrhosis would benefit from ERCP if we took effective measures.

Objective To assess the predictive value for survival of BioCliM index in liver cirrhosis caused esophageal and gastric varices bleeding(EGVB)treated by endoscopic variceal ligation(EVL),endoscopic injection sclerotherapy(EIS)and endoscopic tissue adhesives(ETA).Methods From December 2006 to December 2011, the clinical data of 166 hospitalized patients with first occurrence of EGVB caused by liver cirrhosis and received endoscopic therapies were retrospectively analyzed.The scores of model for end-stage liver disease(MELD),model for end-stage liver disease-Na(MELD-Na),BioCliM index and Child-Turcotte-Pugh(CTP)were calculated. Receiver operating characteristic(ROC)curve and area under the curve(AUC)were applied to assess the accuracy of the four models in one-year and two-year prognosis evaluation,and to obtain the best critical value,and the mortality rates were compared among groups.Chi-square test,t test and rank-sum test were performed for statistical analysis.Results Among 166 patients,the levels of creatinine,bilirubin,albumin,sodium,international normalized ratio and prothrombin time were(0.10 ± 0.06)mmol/L,(0.02 ± 0.01)mmol/L,(30.13 ± 5.06)g/L, (139.13 ± 4.27)mmol/L,1.50 ± 0.32 and(17.83 ± 2.88)s,respectively.During the one-year and two-year follow-up,there were 14 patients and 23 patients dead,respectively.During the one-year and two-year follow-up, the incidences of portal thrombosis of death group were lower than those of survival group(10/14 vs 93.4%,142/152;73.9%,17/23 vs 94.4%,135/143);and the differences were statistically significant(χ2=8.029 and 10.774, both P<0.01).During the one-year and two-year follow-up,BioCliM indexes of death group were 0.12(-0.82, 1.44)and -0.81(-0.87,0.92),respectively,which were both higher than those of survival group(-0.84,-0.94 to -0.73;and -0.84,-0.94 to -0.72),and the differences were statistically significant(Z= -3.074 and -2.260,both P<0.05).During the one-year follow-up,the AUC values of MELD,MELD-Na,BioCliM index and CTP score were 0.698,0.691,0.749 and 0.723,respectively.During the two-year follow-up,the AUC values of MELD,MELD-Na,BioCliM index and CTP score were 0.587,0.582,0.647 and 0.633,respectively. But there was no statistically significant difference in AUC between BioCliM index and MELD,MELD-Na,and CTP score in one-year and two-year follow-up for prognosis evaluation(Z=0.509,0.566,0.271,0.687,0.731 and 0.162,respectively;all P>0.05).The best critical value of BioCliM index was -0.234.Followed up for one year and two years,the mortality rates of patients with BioCliM index over -0.230 were higher than that of patients with BioCliM index less than -0.234(31.0%,9/29 vs 3.6%,5/137;34.5%,10/29 vs 9.5%,13/137);and the differences were statistically significant(χ2=23.242 and 12.526,both P<0.01).Conclusions BioCliM index has a high accuracy in one-year and two-year mortality rate evaluation in liver cirrhosis patients with EGVB and received endoscopical therapies.We should pay attention to the prognosis evaluation before the endoscopical therapy.