Acute hyperammonemic encephalopathy due to a portosystemic shunt in a non-cirrhotic adult patient.

Objective: To report a successfully treated hyperammonemia due to a portosystemic shunt in adult patient.

Data Source: A patient with an altered mental status due to severe elevated ammonia level because of a portosystemic shunt.

Conclusions: Hyperammonemia is not always related to liver failure in critically ill patients, but should be considered in all unknown origins of an altered mental status.

Stent performance in obstructive left colon cancer. Unicentric and cross-sectional study.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy, safety and clinical and oncological results of colonic stents in the initial therapeutic strategy of obstructive left colon cancer.

Methods: Descriptive and ambispective study (2008-2018) of patients with clinical and radiological diagnosis of neoplastic obstruction of the left colon in whom a colonic stent was indicated, analyzing the following groups: palliative stent, stent as bridge to surgery and urgent surgery in case of stent failure or complications.

Results: The study included 208 patients.

[Utility of urokinase in percutaneous drainage treatment of intra-abdominal abscesses].

Background And Objective: The aim of the study was to analyze the usefulness of the treatment with Urokinase (UK) in percutaneous drainage of intra-abdominal abscesses (IAA).

Patients And Methods: Prospective, observational study of 50 patients treated in the Interventional Radiology Unit from University Hospital Lozano Blesa .Zaragoza.