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We thank Drs Yang and Draganov1 for their comments on our study2 wherein we evaluated the safety and efficacy of lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMSs) with and without simultaneously placing double-pigtail stents for draining pancreatic pseudocysts (PPs). In an unpublished multicenter study using LAMSs to drain PPs, the authors observed LAMS occlusion in 17.5% of patients at a median of 5 weeks.1 These results are similar to the results in our patients who presented with cyst cavity infection (17.4%) within 30 days after LAMSs were placed to drain PPs.

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