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Background: Cholelithiasis is a highly prevalent condition, and choledocholitiasis is a high morbidity complication and requires accurate methods for its diagnosis.
Luiz Ronan Marquez Ferreira SOUZA (6186710) +2 more
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Choledocholithiasis refers to the presence of gallstones in the common bile duct. Choledocholithiasis is more common in the elderly due to physiologicaldilatation of the common bile duct with age. Choledocholithiasis usually causes abdominal pain defined
Ceyhan, Özlem +3 more
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ABSTRACT Objectives Post‐endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (post‐ERCP) bleeding occurs more frequently in dialysis patients than in non‐dialysis patients. This study aimed to identify risk factors for post‐ERCP bleeding following stone removal in patients undergoing dialysis.
Masaki Nishimura +16 more
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Endosonography for suspected obstructive jaundice with no definite pathology on ultrasonography
Ultrasonography (US) cannot demonstrate all the etiologies of biliary tract dilatation in patients with jaundice. Thus, we evaluated the etiologic yield of endosonography (EUS) for suspected obstructive jaundice when no definite pathology was found on US.
Chien-Hua Chen +4 more
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ABSTRACT We report an extremely rare case of duodenal bulb perforation caused by a double‐pigtail plastic stent placed for walled‐off necrosis (WON), coexisting with a biliary fistula to the WON and a choledochoduodenal fistula, all successfully managed with endoscopic treatment alone.
Shuhei Shibata +9 more
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ABSTRACT Acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) is not confined to the critically ill and may behave like calculous disease. A 65‐year‐old hypertensive man with localized, stone‐free cholecystitis deteriorated on hospital Day 4 with peritonism, acidosis, and acute kidney injury.
Rami Y. Adam +5 more
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare, progressive cholangiopathy for which diagnosis remains challenging because of the absence of disease‐specific markers and the presence of secondary causes of sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) that closely mimic its clinical presentation. Diagnostic uncertainty can delay appropriate
Miki Scaravaglio +20 more
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ABSTRACT Low phospholipid‐associated cholelithiasis (LPAC) syndrome is a rare inherited disorder caused by ABCB4 mutations with heterogeneous manifestations. We describe two LPAC cases in a mother–son pair, detailing their clinical presentations, diagnostic evaluations, and management. A novel ABCB4 frameshift variant (c.715_716insTT; p.Ser239PhefsTer9)
Hui‐Ming Yang, Jun Liu, Zheng Zhang
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ABSTRACT A 42‐year‐old antibiotic‐naïve man with previous laparoscopic cholecystectomy and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (HbA1c 9.7%) presented with Charcot's triad 7 days after a formally documented normal hepatobiliary evaluation (alanine aminotransferase [ALT] 22 U/L; total bilirubin 0.7 mg/dL [12 μmol/L]; common bile duct [CBD] ≤ 5 mm ...
Hatem Mousa Taha, Khaled Hatem Taha
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