Introduction: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography (ERCP) is an essential therapeutic procedure with a significant risk of complications. Data regarding the complications and predictors of adverse outcomes such as mortality are scarce, especially from India and Asia. We aimed to look at the incidence and outcome of complications in ERCP patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackgrounds/aims: Although peritoneal tuberculosis (TB) is one of the important differential diagnoses among cirrhotic patients with ascites, a peritoneal biopsy is not always available. High ascitic fluid adenosine deaminase (ADA) has been indicative of peritoneal TB. On the other hand, studies to assess its diagnostic utility based on the confirmation of peritoneal biopsy in cirrhotic patients are scarce.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pharyngoesophageal stricture (PES) is an Achilles' heel in the management of corrosive injury. Advances in endoscopic techniques were utilized in its management. We classified the stricture as per its dilatability and then planned their treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report two cases, the first one a 35 years old male, chronic alcoholic, and the other, a 15 years old boy, who presented to us with fever, Rt. hypochondrial pain, with USG-Abdomen revealing multiple liver abscesses in the first, and a single large abscess in the second. Both patients showed leucocytosis and, mildly deranged Liver Function Tests.
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