Publications by authors named "M C Bardone"
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has dramatically spread and improved in the last two decades and is changing the paradigm of drainage in case of malignant biliary obstruction (MBO). EUS-BD can be achieved from different routes, including the common bile duct (choledochoduodenostomy), intrahepatic bile ducts (hepaticogastrostomy), and gallbladder as a rescue (cholecystogastrostomy/cholecystoduodenostomy). EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy (EUS-HGS) is a valuable option for biliary drainage in MBO when ERCP fails or is not feasible.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCholedochal cysts (CCs) are cystic dilations of intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic bile ducts. Around 80% of CCs are diagnosed within the first decade of life. These complex clinical entities are extremely rare, especially in the Western population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF: Serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a recognized affordable oncological marker in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, AFP's prognostic role has been assessed mainly after specific treatments, and no unanimously recognized cut-offs have been identified. The aim of this study is to investigate the prognostic role of different basal AFP cut-offs on survival and HCC course.
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- Several clinical trials have shown that different bowel preparations (BPs) work similarly, but there's a lack of real-world studies comparing them.
- This study, conducted over 14 months with 1,779 patients at an academic hospital, focused on the effectiveness of 1L-PEG compared to 2L-PEG and picosulphate mixtures in achieving proper bowel preparation before colonoscopy.
- The findings reveal that 1L-PEG significantly improves bowel preparation adequacy and identifies specific risk factors, like male sex and smoking, that lead to inadequate preparation, suggesting it enhances clinical practice and saves healthcare resources.
Endoscopy plays a central role in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to biliary disease in both benign and malignant conditions. A cholangioscope is an endoscopic instrument that allows for the direct exploration of the biliary tree. Over the years, technology has improved endoscopic image quality and allowed for the development of an operative procedure that can be performed during cholangioscopy.
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