Endoscopic stent therapy in patients with chronic pancreatitis: A 5-year follow-up study

Figure 1 Protocol of the current study, time points of investigation and examination. Nineteen patients with chronic obstructive pancreatitis underwent endoscopic stent therapy. Endoscopic therapy failed in 2 patients. Seventeen of 19 patients showed clinical benefit and were included to follow-up analysis after completion of stent therapy. During the follow-up, patients were interviewed yearly. Three patients were lost to follow-up. One patient was not available any longer and two patients died.