Publications by authors named "Fatima-Zahra Ajana"

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  • * Liver injury from COVID-19 results from multiple factors, including systemic inflammation, small vessel blood clots, reduced blood flow to the liver, and possible drug side effects, rather than direct infection of liver cells.
  • * A case study is highlighted involving a 25-year-old man who was admitted for abdominal pain and exhibited acute severe liver failure before showing any respiratory symptoms associated with COVID-19.
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  • - A 25-year-old patient with a history of unprotected sex developed cholestatic jaundice and severe itching for two months, leading to an examination that revealed intense jaundice and swollen lymph nodes.
  • - Imaging showed edema and lymphadenopathy, while blood tests indicated significant liver enzyme elevation and negative viral serologies, prompting further testing for syphilis, which returned positive.
  • - A liver biopsy confirmed syphilitic hepatitis, resulting in treatment with ceftriaxone, which led to remarkable improvement within 48 hours.
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Polysplenia syndrome (PSS) is a rare congenital disease that associates multiple spleens to other malformations, most frequently cardiac, vascular, visceral, and biliary malformations. Most patients with PSS die in the early neonatal period because the disease is often accompanied by serve cardiac and biliary abnormalities. However, some patients have only mild cardiovascular malformations or anomalies in the abdominal organs, which are typically diagnosed incidentally in adulthood.

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One of the most common and serious complications of hepatic hydatid cyst disease is communication between the cyst and the biliary tree. Surgical management of biliary fistula is associated with high morbidity and mortality. We retrospectively reviewed the effectiveness of endoscopic treatment of ruptured hydatid cyst into intrahepatic bile ducts.

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Introduction. Hepatitis C is the first major cause for HCC in Morocco. Antiviral treatment reduces the risk of developing HCC but few cases of HCC in HCV-treated patients were reported.

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Introduction: Intussusception is highly uncommon in adults and accounts for only 5% of all reported cases. It is more commonly secondary to an identifiable bowel lesion in 90% of cases, whereas 10% have no discernable cause. Diagnosis is difficult due to non-specific symptoms of the disease.

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