EUS-Guided Gallbladder Drainage To The Rescue In A Patient That Recovered From Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly affected every country and overwhelmed many healthcare systems. Intensive caretreatment may be needed for extended durations. Patients experience consequences of respiratory illness and post-intensive care illness (1,2). Endoscopic procedures, such as endoscopic ultrasound-guided gallbladder transmural drainage, can reduce surgicalinterventions, intensive-care admissions, and long-term complications (3). EUS-guided gallbladder drainage is efficient and safe, with a low rate of adverse events. A 54-year-old man, recently recovered from severe COVID-19+ pneumonia and still judged unfit for futhher intubation, wastreated by EUS-guided gallbladder drainage for severe acute cholecistytis by a 10x15-mm electrocautery-enhanced lumen-apposing stent.