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Gallbladder perforation: a single-center experience in north India and a step-up approach for management.

Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International, 2021
BACKGROUND Spontaneous gallbladder perforation (GBP) is an uncommon diagnosis. This study presented the experience of managing spontaneous GBP over nine years at a large, tertiary care university hospital in north India and investigated the outcomes and ...
Vivek K. Gupta, A. Chandra, Vishal Gupta, Ravi Patel, Amit Dangi, Ajay Pai   +5 more
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Step-up and step-down approaches in the treatment of asthma

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine, 2021
Introduction: Significant intraindividual and temporal variability in symptom control is a feature of asthma that requires careful monitoring and the need to periodically review and adjust therapy. Both NHLBI/NAEPP and GINA offer helpful algorithms for a stepping approach to asthma.Areas covered: The problems arisen in applying the stepwise approach to
Mario Cazzola, Maria Gabriella Matera, Paola Rogliani, Luigino Calzetta, Josuel Ora   +4 more
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Improved Mortality in Necrotizing Pancreatitis with a Multidisciplinary Minimally Invasive Step Up Approach: Comparison to a Modern Open Necrosectomy Cohort.

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2020
BACKGROUND A minimally invasive step-up (MIS) approach has been associated with reduced morbidity compared to open surgical necrosectomy (OSN) for treatment of necrotizing pancreatitis (NP).
Casey M. Luckhurst, M. E. El Hechi, Ahmed E. Elsharkawy, A. Eid, L. Maurer, H. Kaafarani, Ashraf Thabet, D. Forcione, C. F. Fernandez-Del Castillo, K. Lillemoe, P. Fagenholz   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Management of colonic fistulas in patients with infected pancreatic necrosis being treated with a step-up approach.

HPB, 2020
BACKGROUND Colonic fistula is a potentially fatal complication in acute necrotizing pancreatitis (ANP), especially in patients with infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN).
Lin Gao, Jing-Zhu Zhang, K. Gao, Jing Zhou, Gang Li, Bai-qiang Li, B. Ye, L. Ke, Z. Tong, Wei-qin Li   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Toward an evidence-based step-up approach in diagnosing diverticulitis

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 2014
The lack of pathognomonic findings and the chance of complicated disease have resulted in the widespread use of additional imaging to diagnose acute colonic diverticulitis (ACD). The added value of additional imaging in the diagnostic workup of patients suspected of ACD is not well defined.The aim of this study was to systematically review the ...
Andeweg, C.S., Wegdam, J.A., Groenewoud, J., van der Wilt, G.J., van der Wilt, G.J., van Goor, H., van Goor, H., Bleichrodt, R.P.   +7 more
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Stepping Up the Personalized Approach in COPD with Machine Learning

Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews, 2023
Introduction: There is increasing interest in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in all fields of medicine to facilitate greater personalisation of management. Methods: ML could be the next step of personalized medicine in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by giving the exact risk (risk for ...
Evgeni Mekov, Marc Miravitlles, Marko Topalovic, Aran Singanayagam, Rosen Petkov   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Risk of gallstone-related complications in necrotizing pancreatitis patients treated with a step-up approach: The experience of 2 tertiary care centers.

Surgery, 2020
BACKGROUND A minimally invasive step-up approach to necrotizing biliary pancreatitis often requires multiple interventions, delaying cholecystectomy. The risk of gallstone-related complications during this time interval is unknown, as is the feasibility ...
L. Maurer, T. Maatman, Casey M. Luckhurst, K. Horvath, N. Zyromski, P. Fagenholz   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Towards a 'step-up approach' for the treatment of recurrent non-stenotic cholangitis after hepaticojejunostomy: systematic review.

HPB
BACKGROUND Recurrent non-stenotic cholangitis (NSC) is a difficult-to-treat complication after hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) leading to multiple hospital admissions. The optimal treatment strategy is unclear as a systematic review is lacking.
A. Bonomi, A. G. Overdevest, Olivier R. Busch, G. Kazemier, B. Zonderhuis, J. Erdmann, Piergiorgio Danelli, R. V. van Wanrooij, R. Verdonk, M. Besselink, R. Voermans   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Step-Up Approach to Infected Abdominal Fluid Collections: Not Just for Pancreatitis

Surgical Infections, 2020
Background: More than 145,500 abdominal abscesses occur annually in the U.S. Percutaneous catheter drainage (PCD) is the primary treatment for clinically significant intra-abdominal collections (IACs), but only approximately 90% of all IACs are treatable
A. Eid, P. Mueller, Ashraf Thabet, C. F. Castillo, P. Fagenholz   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimization of mixed fluid cascade LNG process using a multivariate Coggins step-up approach: Overall compression power reduction and exergy loss analysis

International journal of refrigeration, 2019
The mixed fluid cascade (MFC) process is considered one of the most promising candidates for producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) at onshore sites, mainly owing to its high capacity and relatively high potential energy efficiency.
Alam Nawaz, M. A. Qyyum, Kinza Qadeer, Mohd Shariq Khan, Ashfaq Ahmad, Sanggyun Lee, Moonyong Lee   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source