Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical efficacy of different stents placement under endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in patients with malignant biliary obstruction (MBO) and the effect on patient survival time.Methods Clinical data of MBO patients treated with ERCP stent placement between January 2020 and March 2024 were collected, divided into recyclable stent group (33 cases), metal stent group (42 cases), and ordinary stent group (34 cases). Comparation of the three groups of preoperative and postoperative changes in liver function, complications of long-term cholangitis and pancreatitis, stent patency time, success rate of stent removal with a single clamping, survival time, monitoring follow-up situation.Results There was no statistically significant difference in the liver function of the three groups of patients before stent placement (P > 0.05); One week after stent placement, the difference compared with preoperative between direct bilirubin (DBiL) and total bilirubin (TBiL) in the recyclable stent group and the metal stent group was significantly higher than that in the ordinary stent group, and the difference between the ordinary stent group and other two groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The incidence of cholangitis in the recyclable stent group was the lowest, followed by the ordinary plastic biliary stent, and the metal biliary stent had the highest incidence of cholangitis, the incidence of cholangitis in the long term after stent placement was compared among the three groups of patients with a statistically significant difference (P < 0.05). The incidence of postoperative pancreatitis in the three groups was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). The success rate of stent removal with a single clamping was higher in the recyclable stent group than the ordinary stent group.Comparison of median stent patency time among the three groups, the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05).The metal stent group had the longest median patency time of 194.0 d, recyclable plastic stent had the second longest median patency time of 126.0 d, and ordinary plastic biliary stent had the shortest median patency time of 92.0 d. Median survival time among the three groups was statistically significant (P < 0.05). The recyclable plastic biliary stent had the longest median survival time of 590.0 d, metal biliary stent had the second longest median survival time of 476.0 d, and ordinary plastic biliary stent had the shortest median survival time of 453.0 d.Conclusion Recyclable plastic biliary stent has a faster decrease in bilirubin index compared with the ordinary stent group after operation. And the recyclable plastic stent group has lower incidence of long-term cholangitis, higher success rate of one-time clamping of the stent, and more advantages in time to stent patency and survival time compared with ordinary plastic biliary stent, which is an effective choice of stenting modality for ERCP stent placement in patients with MBO.