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Assembly and use of a low-cost paracentesis simulator for the teaching of puncture and drainage of ascites [PDF]

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, 2022
Objectives: to describe the assembly of a low-cost paracentesis simulator and evaluate its effectiveness, acceptance and impact on the learning of medical students.
BRENO WELLINGTON MESQUITA SILVEIRA, LUANA AKEMI ALVES ARAÚJO, LUCAS DE SOUZA ALBUQUERQUE, FELIPE DE OLIVEIRA VASCONCELOS, ERICK BATISTA DE MEDEIROS LIMA, ANNYA COSTA ARAÚJO DE MACEDO GÓES, LARA BURLAMAQUI VERAS   +6 more
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Medical treatment of ascites in cirrhosis [PDF]

, 1993
Medical treatment of cirrhotic ascites is essentially supportive, dictated by the patient's discomfort, impaired cardiovascular or respiratory function and potential for infection. Treatment of ‘simple’ ascites (moderate fluid accumulation, serum albumin
Alexander L. Gerbes, Bernardi, Bichet, Bosch, Broekhuysen, Caramelo, Conn, DiBona, Epstein, Faloon, Fogel, Fuller, Ganger, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Gerbes, Ginès, Gregory, Guarner, Henriksen, Hoermann, Jüngst, Karnad, Keppler, Laffi, Lenz, Levy, Moore, Perez-Ayuso, Petrillo, Pockros, Ring-Larsen, Schrier, Schölmerich, Shear, Sherlock   +41 more
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AN ASPIRATOR FOR PARACENTESIS [PDF]

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1918
Many forms of apparatus have been devised to create a vacuum sufficient to withdraw fluid from the pleural cavities. The Petain system is effective when the parts are new. It has the disadvantage characteristic of all complicated mechanisms of easily getting out of order.
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Ultrasound-Guided Paracentesis

MedEdPORTAL, 2014
Paracentesis is a commonly performed bedside procedure by which peritoneal fluid is obtained from the peritoneal cavity. This procedure is performed in patients with ascites for diagnostic and/or therapeutic reasons.
Irene Ma, Nishan Sharma, Samantha Nagassar, Ian Wishart, Jayna Holroyd-Leduc, Kerri Novak   +5 more
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Survival benefit associated with early detection of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in veteran inpatients with cirrhotic ascites

JGH Open, 2020
Background Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is common in hospitalized cirrhotic patients with ascites and carries high mortality. This study aimed to determine whether early diagnostic paracentesis (EDP) 12 h from presentation (P = 0.057).
Luke Townsend, Pierre Blais, Alex Huh, Leela Nayak, Jill E Elwing, Gregory S Sayuk   +5 more
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No effect of albumin infusion on the prevention of hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt [PDF]

, 2015
Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a major problem in patients submitted to TIPS. Previous studies identified low albumin as a factor associated to post-TIPS HE.
Frieri, Camilla, Gioia, Stefania, MERLI, Manuela, Nardelli, Silvia, Onori, Eugenia, Pasquale, Chiara, Pentassuglio, Ilaria, RIGGIO, Oliviero, Salvatori, Filippo Maria   +8 more
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PARACENTESIS THORACIS. [PDF]

The Lancet
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Genomic profiling of malignant peritoneal mesothelioma reveals recurrent alterations in epigenetic regulatory genes BAP1, SETD2, and DDX3X. [PDF]

, 2017
Malignant mesothelioma is a rare cancer that arises from the mesothelial cells that line the pleural cavity and less commonly from the peritoneal lining of the abdomen and pelvis.
Bastian, Boris C, Chen, Yunn-Yi, Garg, Karuna, Joseph, Nancy M, Nasr, Anthony, Onodera, Courtney, Rabban, Joseph T, Solomon, David A, Talevich, Eric, Yeh, Iwei, Zaloudek, Charles   +10 more
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Coexisting Sickle Cell Anemia and Sarcoidosis: A Management Conundrum! [PDF]

, 2017
Sickle cell disease and Sarcoidosis are conditions that are more common in the African American population. In this report we share an unfortunate patient who had hepatic sarcoidosis but could not receive steroids since that precipitated acute liver ...
Gollahalli, Nagesh S., Nutan, FNU
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Incidence and risks of complication following 2,230 image-guided abdominal paracentesis

International Journal of Gastrointestinal Intervention
Background : Routine use of ultrasound (US) guidance for abdominal paracentesis has not gained consensus due to a lack of clinical data demonstrating greater safety relative to paracentesis performed without bedside imaging.
Hiro D. Sparks, Megan J. Sue, Sammy Saab, Sue Kim-Saechao, Silvi Lybbert, Jessie Wong, Edward Wolfgang Lee   +6 more
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