“…Similar outcomes have been observed in subsequent studies [47,48], and a recent meta-analysis found pooled rates of treatment success, complications and mortality of 81%, 35% and 6%, respectively [49]. Reported complications include perforation, air embolism, and bleeding, which occurs in 3%–21% of patients [46,47,50]. Therefore, despite the fact that DEN may contribute to accelerated patient recovery and clinical resolution of infected WON, the morbidity and mortality associated with the procedure should limit its use to circumstances in which patients have failed to improve after appropriate transluminal drainage, with a target treatment endpoint of clinical resolution of significant symptoms, not radiological resolution.…”