Case report: Dropped gallstones diagnosis is hindered by incomplete surgical notes and a low index of suspicion.

Introduction And Importance: Diagnosis and treatment of dropped gallstones (DG) complications can be delayed due to a low index of suspicion by treating physicians. This delay may derive from incomplete surgical notes that disregard and underreport DG. This report highlights the management of two cases of DG-related abscesses with incomplete surgical notes and how a high index of suspicion can bear positively on treatment results.

Forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) mRNA expression immediately after living-donor liver transplant.

Objectives: The forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) gene is considered to be the master gene of regulatory T cells. The significance of regulatory T cells in liver transplant has been investigated in previous reports, but quantitative FOXP3 messenger RNA (mRNA) expression after living-donor liver transplant has not been assessed. The objective of this study was to determine whether the human FOXP3 gene is a good marker for regulatory activity in T cells in living-donor liver transplant recipients during the immediate posttransplant period.

Lipid droplets are present in amyloid deposits in familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy and dialysis related amyloidosis.

It has been well documented that transthyretin (TTR) shows an affinity for lipoproteins and amyloid is deposited around adipocytes in patients with familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP). We examined the involvement of lipids in amyloid fibrils in the tissues by histopathologic methods. Sudan black B staining for frozen tissues of autopsied FAP patients and biospied dialysis related amyloidosis (DRA) patients revealed colocalization of lipids in the tissue sections where Congo red staining was positive, while no such positive staining was observed in paraffin embedded tissues.

Feasibility of using the cystic duct for biliary reconstruction in right-lobe living donor liver transplantation.

Duct-to-duct biliary reconstruction has been introduced in adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). In right-lobe grafts, however, the presence of two or three separated bile duct orifices is not rare and makes an alternative approach for reconstruction necessary. We used the cystic duct for one of the anastomoses in biliary reconstruction for 5 right-lobe living donor liver transplants with two separated ducts.

Living domino liver transplantation in an adult with congenital absence of portal vein.

Congenital absence of the portal vein (CAPV) is a rare malformation of the splanchnic venous system. Although CAPV is usually detected in the pediatric age group, our patient was a 35-year-old woman. She had been diagnosed with CAPV in 1996 when she was 27 years old.