Contemporary management of pain in cirrhosis: Toward precision therapy for pain
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Chronic pain is highly prevalent in patients with cirrhosis and is associated with poor health‐related quality of life and poor functional status. However, there is limited guidance on appropriate pain management in this population, and pharmacologic treatment can be harmful, leading to adverse outcomes, such as gastrointestinal bleeding ...
Alexis Holman +4 more
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Outcome of Dismembered Pyeloplasty in Children with Unilateral Pelviureteric Junction Obstruction: A Retrospective Observational Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: Anderson-Hynes (AH) dismembered pyeloplasty is the standard procedure performed for the management of Pelviureteric Junction Obstruction (PUJO). Ultrasonography (USG) and diuretic renography are of great importance for the diagnosis and
NIBI HASSAN +4 more
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Ex vivo renal perfusion and autotransplantation in treatment of calculous disease or abdominal aortic aneurysm. [PDF]
, 1975 Two more indications are described for temporary ex vivo perfusion of kidneys with revascularization of these organs as autografts to orthotopic or heterotopic locations. One of the patients had staghorn calculi which were removed from a solitary kidney.
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Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma in a Horse Shoe Kidney Masquerading as Giant Hydronephrosis – A Case Report: Diagnostic Challenges, Lessons Learnt and Review of Literature [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Primary epithelial tumour of the renal pelvis is a rare entity. So far, very few cases are reported in literature. Of these, mucin secreting adenocarcinomas are distinctly rare.
Leena Dennis Joseph +4 more
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Systematic study of constitutive cyclo-oxygenase-2 expression: role of NFκB and NFAT transcriptional pathways [PDF]
, 2015 Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) is an inducible enzyme that drives inflammation and is the therapeutic target for widely used nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Ahmetaj-Shala, B +11 more
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A trifid pelvis in a patient with a solitary kidney with LUTS: An unusual presentation
Journal of the Scientific Society, 2013 Trifid pelvis is one of the rarest congenital malformations of the upper urinary tract. Trifid pelvis in a solitary kidney is a very rare presentation.
Guntaka Ajay Kumar +3 more
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Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome : a rare genitourinary anomaly in females : a series of four cases [PDF]
, 2018 We present case series of four patients with an important syndrome known as Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome. Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterised by uterus didelphys with blind hemivagina and ipsilateral renal ...
Ilyas, Mohd +2 more
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Investigating the flow dynamics in the obstructed and stented ureter by means of a biomimetic artificial model. [PDF]
, 2014 Double-J stenting is the most common clinical method employed to restore the upper urinary tract drainage, in the presence of a ureteric obstruction. After implant, stents provide an immediate pain relief by decreasing the pressure in the renal pelvis (P)
Carugo, Dario +5 more
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Case Reports in Urology, 2017 Laparoscopic pyeloplasty (LP) for ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) is one of the most appropriate surgical techniques to achieve the optimal goal of minimally invasive surgery.
Akin Soner Amasyali +4 more
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The outcomes of mini-laparoscopic pyeloplasty in children - brazilian experience [PDF]
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2020 Objetive Pelvicureteric junction (PUJ) obstruction is the main cause of hydronephrosis in childhood. Open pyeloplasty has been the gold standard treatment of this condition with success rate above 90%.
Cristiane Reis Leonardo +3 more
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