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ON JULY 13, 2022 FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE AMERICAS CORPORATION BECAME AWARE OF ADVERSE EVENTS MENTIONED IN LITERATURE RELATED TO ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY USING BALLOON-ASSISTED ENDOSCOPY. THE ADVERSE EVENTS IN THE LITERATURE "GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ENDOSCOPY 2022; 64:1273-86. MASAAKI SHIMATANI: RECENT ADVANCES IN ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY USING BALLOON-ASSISTED ENDOSCOPY FOR PANCREATICOBILIARY DISEASES IN PATIENTS WITH SURGICALLY ALTERED ANATOMY: THE THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT OF DIFFICULT CASES." ARE DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THE COMMON TYPES OF COMPLICATIONS FOR BAE-ERCP ARE BLEEDING, PERFORATION, AND POST-ERCP PANCREATITIS, ALMOST EQUIVALENT TO THOSE OF CONVENTIONAL ERCP, THOUGH COMPLICATIONS SPECIFIC TO BAE-ERCP SUCH AS HEPATIC PORTAL VENOUS GAS HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED. A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY BY TOKUHARA ET AL. REPORTED THAT THE OVERALL OCCURRENCE WAS 5.8% AND THE MOST COMMON ADVERSE EVENT WAS PERFORATION IN 3.2%. ANOTHER MULTI-CENTER PROSPECTIVE STUDY THAT EVALUATED MORE THAN 300 DBE PROCEDURES REPORTED THE COMPLICATION RATE WAS 10.6% INCLUDING PERFORATION WHICH WAS THE MOST COMMON ADVERSE EVENT, OCCURRING IN 3.9%. THE MAIN COMPLICATION IN CONVENTIONAL ERCP WAS POST-ERCP PANCREATITIS, WHILE, IN BAE-ERCP IT WAS PERFORATION. A COPY OF LITERATURE "GASTROENTEROLOGICAL ENDOSCOPY 2022; 64:1273-86. MASAAKI SHIMATANI: RECENT ADVANCES IN ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY USING BALLOON-ASSISTED ENDOSCOPY FOR PANCREATICOBILIARY DISEASES IN PATIENTS WITH SURGICALLY ALTERED ANATOMY: THE THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY AND MANAGEMENT OF DIFFICULT CASES" IS ATTACHED FOR REFERENCE AS FILE ATTACHMENT. THERE WAS NO DEATH REPORTED IN THIS LITERATURE.