The Endoscopic Management of Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis

Table 1

Meta-analysis of EUS-guided celiac plexus block for chronic pancreatitis. The lower end of the confidence interval was used as the overall percentage of pain relief (adapted from Kaufman et al. [25]).

Study	Pain relief reported out of total patient (average)	95% CI
Gress et al. [23]	5/10 (50%)	(0.2836–1)
Gress et al. [24]	50/90 (56%)	(0.4689–1)
Levy et al. [20]	5/13 (38%)	(0.2217–1)
O’Toole et al. [31]	20/31 (65%)	(0.4912–1)
LeBlanc et al. [21]	27/51 (53%)	(0.4215–1)
Stevens et al. [32]	16/26 (62%)	(0.3272–1)
Over all Studies	123/221 (56%)	(0.3272–1)