Reduction of serum bilirubin levels after endoscopic biliary drainage in patients with extrahepatic biliary obstruction and its significance
Kosuru Sham Charan Naidu, Suprabhat Giri, Saroj Kanta Sahu, Dibya Lochan Praharaj, Bipadabhanjan Mallick, Preetam Nath, Swati Das, Sarat Chandra Panigrahi, Manoj Kumar Sahu, Anil Chandra Anand, Yogesh K Chawla, Subrat Kumar Acharya
Kosuru Sham Charan Naidu, Suprabhat Giri, Saroj Kanta Sahu, Dibya Lochan Praharaj, Bipadabhanjan Mallick, Preetam Nath, Sarat Chandra Panigrahi, Manoj Kumar Sahu, Anil Chandra Anand, Yogesh K Chawla, Subrat Kumar Acharya, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar 751024, Odisha, India
Swati Das, Department of Radiology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar 751024, Odisha, India
Co-first authors: Kosuru Sham Charan Naidu and Suprabhat Giri.
Author contributions: Naidu KSC and Giri S drafted the initial manuscript and they contributed equally to this manuscript as co-first authors; Mallick B, Nath P, and Anand AC contributed to the conception and design of the manuscript; Naidu KSC, Giri S, Sahu SK, Praharaj DL, Mallick B, Nath P, Das S, Panigrahi SC, Sahu MK, Anand AC, Chawla YK, and Acharya SK contributed to the literature review, analysis, data collection, interpretation, and critical revision of the initial manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences (approval No. KIIT/KIMS/IEC/1331/2023).
Informed consent statement: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement-checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement-checklist of items.
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https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Bipadabhanjan Mallick, Professor, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Kushabhadra Campus, 5 KIIT Road, Patia, Bhubaneswar 751024, Odisha, India.
bipada.mallick@kims.ac.in
Received: November 14, 2025
Revised: December 3, 2025
Accepted: January 6, 2026
Published online: February 16, 2026
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