[Maintainance treatment of anti-neutrophil cytoplasm associated antibodies (ANCA)].

ANCA-associated vasculitides are rare and complex systemic diseases. Collaborative studies in both Europe and the United States of America have been particularly important in the development of randomized clinical trials that have studied the safety of maintenance therapy for these diseases. Although cyclophosphamide continues to be the main drug utilized during induction therapy, its long-term side effects have given rise to the study of other immunosuppressive drugs for the maintenance phase.

[Usefulness of endoscopic cholangiography and sphincterotomy in patients with biliary lithiasis].

Background: With the popularity of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC), the algorithm of endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) with biliary sphincterotomy followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy has proven to be an effective treatment in choledocholithiasis in symptomatic gallstone disease. However, its use as a standard approach remains controversial.

Objectives: 1.