A post-endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography subcapsular hepatic hematoma.

Abstract

Nowadays endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is a minimally invasive technique with a complication rate around 2.5% in expert hands, being the most frequent: acute pancreatitis, cholangitis, hemorrhage and perforation. An exceptional complication is subcapsular hepatic hematoma, first published in the literature in 2000, with few cases reported. Regarding the case published by Del Moral Martínez et al (Hepatic Hematoma after ERCP: presentation of two new cases. Rev Esp Enferm Dig 2017, Vol. 109, No. 6, pp. 470-473) we would like to contribute a reflection based on a recent clinical case in our center.