Endoscopic management of chronic pancreatitis

Table 2 Studies that evaluated endoscopic shock wave lithotripsy with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatogrophy for chronic pancreatitis

Study	Total patients	No. of patients in any amount of pain at follow up	Duct clearance	Mean follow up time (mo)
Sauerbruch et al[107]	8	8	8	11
Den Toom et al[108]	8	8 (7 pain relief)	8	17
Sauerbruch et al[109]	24	24	24	24
Delhaye et al[60]	123	88	123
Schneider et al[110]	50	39	48	20
Van der Hul et al[111]	17	17	17	30
Wolf et al[112]	12	9	12	19-22
Schreiber et al[113]	10	7	10	12
Johanns et al[114]	35	23	16	NA
Ohara et al[115]	32	7	24	44
Matthews et al[116]	19	13	19	6 mo-6 yr
1Costamagna et al[117]	35	32	35	6
Adamek et al[49]	80	80	NA	NA
Brand et al[55]	48	17	48	7
Karasawa et al[118]	24	12	24	12
Kozarek et al[36]	40	28	NA	2.4 yr
Rubenstein et al[119]	23	NA	23	NA

¹Pain relief was not a primary end point. NA: Not applicable.