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Refractory benign biliary stricture due to chronic pancreatitis in two patients treated using endoscopic ultrasound-guided choledochoduodenostomy fistula creation: case reports [PDF]
Benign biliary stricture (BBS) is a complication of chronic pancreatitis (CP). Despite endoscopic biliary stenting, some patients do not respond to treatment, and they experience recurrent cholangitis.
Sho Ishikawa +7 more
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Advances
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), encompassing ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, is a rising, multifactorial chronic disorder driven by dysregulated mucosal immunity in genetically susceptible individuals and influenced by environmental and microbial factors.
Andrea Papait +5 more
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Background Arterio-biliary fistula is a rare cause of haemobilia, most often iatrogenic but occasionally resulting from blunt abdominal trauma. Early diagnosis is essential due to its potentially life-threatening presentation. Case presentation A 24-year-
Rajat Nandi +5 more
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ABSTRACT Aim To evaluate whether preoperative prognostic nutritional index (PNI) values predict prolonged postoperative hospital stay in patients with oral cancer undergoing highly invasive surgery. Methods We retrospectively evaluated background factors (age, sex, primary site, preoperative clinical stage, type of free flap, and the PNI) and ...
Go Ohara +6 more
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Endoscopic Diagnosis of Cholecystogastric Fistula
Biliary fistulas occur in 3%–5% of patients with gallstones. Duodenum is the most common site of fistulation. We report a case of elderly female with chronic calculous cholecystitis complicated by cholecystogastric fistula.
Vishal Bodh, Rajesh Sharma, Brij Sharma
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ABSTRACT Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the standard treatment for acute cholecystitis (AC), but some patients are unfit for (immediate) surgery. Endoscopic ultrasound‐guided gallbladder drainage (EUS‐GBD) using a lumen‐apposing metal stent (LAMS) is increasingly used in this population.
Louis De Wispelaere +41 more
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On the History of Hepatic Vein Catheterization
ABSTRACT Hepatic vein catheterization (HVC) in man was first performed 80 years ago in the wake of right‐sided heart catheterization. Several new methods, recognitions and concepts followed, especially the indirect Fick‐method for determination of splanchnic blood flow. Five years passed before pressure measurements were performed and routine HVCs were
Jens Henrik Henriksen +2 more
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Peptic ulcer complication has decreased over le last years. Spontaneous bilio-digestive fistulas, in the absence of primary biliary disease, remain a very unusual complication of the upper digestive tract.
Mohamed Ali Chaouch +7 more
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We present a 79 year-old female who consulted for abdominal pain. There was evidence of sigmoid diverticulitis with colonic obstruction and biliary-enteric fistula formation, on the imaging.
Marc Paul Jose Lopez +3 more
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