Acute biliary pancreatitis masking haemobilia due to a false aneurysm of the right hepatic artery after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a commonly performed surgical procedure. The postoperative course is often uncomplicated; however, complications like infection, biliary leakage, and bleeding and bile duct injury can occur. Here we report on a patient with common bile duct obstruction and haemobilia due to a false aneurysm of the right hepatic artery after laparoscopic cholecystectomy, masked by biliary pancreatitis, complicated by an infarction of the liver after embolisation.

Contrast-induced acute kidney injury and clinical outcomes after intra-arterial and intravenous contrast administration: risk comparison adjusted for patient characteristics by design.

Background: Direct comparisons between risk of contrast induced acute kidney injury (CI-AKI) after intra-arterial versus intravenous contrast administration are scarce. We estimated and compared the risk of CI-AKI and its clinical course after both modes of contrast administration in patients who underwent both.

Methods: One hundred seventy patients who received both intra-arterial and intravenous contrast injections within one year between 2001 and 2010 were included.

Activator protein-1 (AP-1) signalling in human atherosclerosis: results of a systematic evaluation and intervention study.

Animal studies implicate the AP-1 (activator protein-1) pro-inflammatory pathway as a promising target in the treatment of atherosclerotic disease. It is, however, unclear whether these observations apply to human atherosclerosis. Therefore we evaluated the profile of AP-1 activation through histological analysis and tested the potential benefit of AP-1 inhibition in a clinical trial.