Refractory Ascites After Liver Transplantation Treated With Splenic Artery Embolization: A Case Report and Literature Review.

After orthotopic liver transplantation, several complications can arise, such as arterial or venous thrombosis, stenosis, biliary leakage, ischemia, or ascites. Although refractory ascites are not a common complication, they can have a significant impact on patients' prognosis and quality of life. This condition can be caused by multiple mechanisms, both intrahepatic and extrahepatic, and one of them is the splenic artery steal syndrome.

Disseminated Cryptococcosis After Liver Transplant: A Case Report.

Cryptococcosis is an opportunistic infection caused by the Basidiomycota Cryptococcus neoformans (Cryptococcus gattii), which affects immunosuppressed patients and less frequently immunocompetent patients. Solid-organ transplant recipients are a particularly high-risk group, depending on the net state of immunosuppression. In these patients, the infection usually appears after the first year after transplant, although it may occur earlier in liver transplant recipients.

Differential characteristics in drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis.

Background And Aim: Drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis (DIAIH) is an adverse effect associated with several drugs that usually occurs acutely, with variable latency, and it may potentially be mortal. There are a few reports and studies about DIAIH.

Methods: This was an analytical study of a retrospective cohort of patients, discriminated according to idiopathic or drug-induced etiology, followed up for a 7-year period until 31 December 2016.

Autoimmune hepatitis - primary biliary cholangitis overlap syndrome. Long-term outcomes of a retrospective cohort in a university hospital.

Background: Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) with characteristics of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is known as overlap syndrome. Its prevalence and prognosis have not yet been determined comparatively with AIH.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted comparing patients diagnosed with AIH and AIH-PBC overlap syndrome, followed-up for seven years in a university hospital in Colombia, until 31 December 2016.

Characterization of patients with autoimmune hepatitis at an university hospital in Medellín-Colombia: cohort study.

Introduction: Autoimmune hepatitis is a chronic liver disease that impacts on morbidity and mortality of patients. Few epidemiological data exist of this in Latin America and Colombia.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to describe the demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics of the patients; the treatment and the response to it, the evolution and course of the disease, requirement of liver transplantation and mortality.

Albendazole-induced granulomatous hepatitis: a case report.

Introduction: Drug-related hepatotoxicity is a common medical problem with implications for health systems. It constitutes a cause of acute liver failure and, in many cases, is responsible for the rejection of new pharmacological agents during efficacy and safety studies. Risk factors, as well as pathogenesis of drug-induced liver injury, are poorly understood.

A 60-year-old man with chronic renal failure and a costal mass: a case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: Brown tumors are a rare focal manifestation of osteitis fibrosa cystica, which results from hyperparathyroidism. Chronic kidney failure may lead to secondary or tertiary hyperparathyroidism and thus to osteitis fibrosa cystica and brown tumors.

Case Presentation: A 60-year-old man with a history of diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney failure presented with a 15-day history of dyspnea, cough, malaise and fever.