Publications by authors named "Miyuki Sensui"
Introduction And Objectives: Acute cholangitis, which is characterized by biliary infection and acute liver injury, may impact cirrhosis prognosis. However, the prognosis itself remains unclear.
Materials And Methods: This multicenter retrospective cohort study compared the mortality and liver function change between patients with and without cirrhosis who underwent endoscopic treatment for acute cholangitis caused by choledocholithiasis between January 2004 and December 2019.
Article Synopsis
- Peroral cholangioscopy (POCS) enhances the diagnostic evaluation of indeterminate biliary stricture and tumor spread when used alongside computed tomography (CT) imaging.
- A study of 52 patients showed that the addition of POCS significantly improved the confident diagnosis rate compared to CT alone, particularly in identifying malignant conditions.
- Although POCS provided better visual confirmation for biliary strictures, there was no notable difference in the accuracy of tumor spread diagnosis between the two methods.
Background/objectives: Recently, increase in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) concentration or newly detected KRAS mutation after endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) biopsy were reported to be related to the occurrence of new distant metastasis. In this study, we investigated whether cfDNA concentration increased with the release of tumor components into the blood after EUS-FNA and whether its increase was related to prognosis.
Methods: Sixty-eight patients underwent EUS-FNA and were pathologically confirmed as having pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).