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Identification of early predictors for infected necrosis in acute pancreatitis
BMC Gastroenterology, 2022 Background In acute pancreatitis, secondary infection of pancreatic necrosis is a complication that mostly necessitates interventional therapy. A reliable prediction of infected necrotizing pancreatitis would enable an early identification of patients at
Mats L. Wiese +11 more
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Organ-specific features of natural killer cells. [PDF]
, 2011 Natural killer (NK) cells can be swiftly mobilized by danger signals and are among the earliest arrivals at target organs of disease. However, the role of NK cells in mounting inflammatory responses is often complex and sometimes paradoxical.
La Cava, Antonio +3 more
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Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Current Management and Therapies [PDF]
Clinical Endoscopy, 2017 Acute necrotizing pancreatitis accounts for 10% of acute pancreatitis (AP) cases and is associated with a higher mortality and morbidity. Necrosis within the first 4 weeks of disease onset is defined as an acute necrotic collection (ANC), while walled ...
Christine Boumitri +2 more
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Infected Peri‐Pancreatic Necrosis Causing Gallbladder Necrosis by Direct Extension [PDF]
HPB Surgery, 1993 Acute acalculous cholecystitis may develop in patients suffering from necrotizing pancreatitis. Conversely, acute pancreatitis may complicate acute gallbladder disease. We present a case that lends support to the existence of another possibility: gallbladder necrosis caused by direct extension of the necrotizing pancreatitic process.
Schein, Moshe +4 more
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Acute Suppuration of the Pancreatic Duct in a Patient with Tropical Pancreatitis
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2008 Background/Aim: Pancreatic sepsis secondary to infected necrosis, pseudocyst, or pancreatic abscess is a well-known clinical entity. Acute suppuration of the pancreatic duct (ASPD) in the setting of chronic calcific pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal ...
Liliane S. Deeb +4 more
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Timing of Endoscopic Transmural Drainage for Pancreatic Necrosis: Expanding the Horizon!
Journal of Digestive Endoscopy, 2023 Endoscopic transluminal drainage (ETD) has been traditionally performed on collections that have a well-formed enclosing wall and therefore it was advocated for walled-off necrosis.
Surinder Singh Rana
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Diagnosis of pancreatic disease in feline platynosomosis [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives: Platynosomum species are cat-specific parasitic trematodes that parasitize the biliary ducts and gall bladder. Due to the common connection to the major duodenal papilla of the pancreas and common bile ducts in addition to the periductal ...
Illanes, Oscar +4 more
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Transgastric pancreatic necrosectomy: Tricks of the trade
Surgery Open Science, 2023 Necrotizing pancreatitis (NP) affects 20 % of the 300,000 patients diagnosed with acute pancreatitis every year. Mechanical intervention to debride necrotic and/or infected pancreatic and peripancreatic tissue is frequently required.
Sean P. McGuire, MD +2 more
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Extrahepatic complications of liver transplantation. [PDF]
, 1985 The massive surgical assault associated with hepatic transplantation makes a high frequency of complications almost inevitable. In this review of 225 patient records, selected at random from cases of liver transplantation in Pittsburgh over a 2 1/2 year ...
Shaw, BW, Starzl, TE, Wood, RP
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Decreasing use of pancreatic necrosectomy and NSQIP predictors of complications and mortality
World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2022 Background Surgical pancreatic necrosectomy (SPN) is an option for the management of infected pancreatic necrosis. The literature indicates that an escalating, combined endoscopic, interventional radiology and minimally invasive surgery “step-up ...
Amy E. Liepert +8 more
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