Publications by authors named "Andre Luiz Parizi Mello"
Background: About 20% of cases of acute pancreatitis progress to a severe form, leading to high mortality rates. Several studies suggested methods to identify patients that will progress more severely. However, most studies present problems when used on daily practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The choledocolithiasis has an incidence of 8-20% in patients with cholecystolithiasis. The preoperative diagnosis guides the interventional treatment on the bile duct
Aim: To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the laboratory markers and imaging studies for choledocholithiasis preoperatively.
Methods: The study comprised 254 patients divided into two groups: the control group (207 patients), patients without choledocholithiasis intraoperatively and cases group (47 patients), that enrolled the patients with choledocholithiasis intra-operatively.