Society guideline links: Biliary infection and obstruction

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately:

●(See "Society guideline links: Gallstones".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Biliary complications following surgery".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective – Guidelines for management of intraabdominal infections (2017)

United States

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of biliary strictures (2023)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on the role of endoscopy in the diagnosis of malignancy in biliary strictures of undetermined etiology (2023)

●ASGE: Guideline on the management of cholangitis (2021)

●American College of Radiology (ACR)-Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR)-Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR): Practice parameter for the performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the abdomen (excluding the liver) (revised 2020)

●Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Clinical spotlight review – Management of choledocholithiasis (2020)

●Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR): Quality improvement standards for percutaneous cholecystostomy and percutaneous transhepatic biliary interventions (2020)

●ASGE: Guideline on the role of endoscopy in the evaluation and management of choledocholithiasis (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria for radiologic management of biliary obstruction (revised 2018)

●ASGE: Guideline for infection control during GI endoscopy (2018)

●ACR-SPR: Practice parameter for the performance of hepatobiliary scintigraphy (revised 2017)

●SAGES: Clinical spotlight review – Intraoperative cholangiography (2016, revised 2017)

●SAGES: Clinical spotlight review – Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (2017)

●Surgical Infection Society (SIS): Revised guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection (2017)

●ASGE: Guideline on the role of ERCP in benign diseases of the biliary tract (2015)

Europe

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline for endoscopic management of common bile duct stones (2019)

●ESGE: Clinical guideline on endoscopic biliary stenting – Indications, choice of stents, and results, 2017 update (published 2018)

●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Clinical practice guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones (2016)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage for biliary obstruction (2023)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on electrohydraulic lithotripsy for difficult-to-treat bile duct stones (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on laser lithotripsy for difficult-to-treat bile duct stones (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on endoscopic bipolar radiofrequency ablation for treating biliary obstruction caused by cancer (2018)

●British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG): Guideline on the management of common bile duct stones (CBDS), update (2017)

●NICE: Quality standard on gallstone disease (2015)

●NICE: Clinical guideline on gallstone disease – Diagnosis and management (2014)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE): Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for cholelithiasis (2021)

●[In Japanese] JSGE: Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for cholelithiasis, 3rd edition (2021)

●[In English] Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (JSHBPS): Clinical practice guidelines for safe performance of endoscopic ultrasound/ultrasonography-guided biliary drainage, 2018 (published 2019)

●[In Japanese] JSHBPS: Clinical practice guidelines for safe performance of endoscopic ultrasound/ultrasonography-guided biliary drainage, 2018 (published 2019)

●[In English] Japanese Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES): Guidelines for endoscopic papillary large balloon dilation (2018)

●[In English] JGES: Guidelines for endoscopic sphincterotomy (2018)

●[In Japanese] JSHBPS: Clinical practice guidelines for acute cholangitis/cholecystitis, 3rd edition (2018)

●[In English] JSHBPS: Tokyo guidelines (TG18) (2018)

●[In Japanese] JGES: Endoscopic papillary large balloon dilation (EPLBD) clinical practice guidelines (2017)

●[In Japanese] JGES: Endoscopic sphincterotomy (EST) clinical practice guidelines (2015)