Publications by authors named "Edit Castren"
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- * We identified key clinical variables, such as serum alkaline phosphatase levels and extrahepatic biliary disease, that strongly predict 10-year outcomes, leading to the creation of two effective risk scoring systems.
- * Our new UK-PSC risk scores successfully predicted outcomes better than existing models, and while a specific genetic risk allele was associated with worse outcomes, it didn’t enhance the accuracy of our scores.
Hepatic portal venous gas (HPVG) in most cases signifies either mechanical migration of air into the portal system due to bowel ischaemia (pneumatosis intestinalis) or portal sepsis due to gas-forming organisms. Successful management of portal sepsis involves early identification of the condition, intensive resuscitation, broad-spectrum antibiotics and a laparotomy for possible bowel ischaemia. In this report, we discuss the case of a patient with pneumatosis intestinalis and HPVG after an elective laparoscopic right hemicolectomy.
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