Society guideline links: Biliary complications following surgery

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: Gallbladder surgery".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines for the detection and management of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy, 2020 (published 2021)

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)

●Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Safe cholecystectomy multi-society practice guideline and state of the art consensus conference on prevention of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy (2020)

●SAGES: Guidelines for the clinical application of laparoscopic biliary tract surgery (2010)

Europe

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Clinical guideline for endoscopic biliary stenting – Indications, choice of stents, and results, updated 2017 (published 2018)

●ESGE: Position statement on the diagnosis and management of iatrogenic endoscopic perforations (2014)

●ESGE: Clinical guideline for biliary stenting – Indications, choice of stents and results (2012)

●European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES): Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and treatment of bile duct injuries during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (2012)