Publications by authors named "Ronald Arcana Lopez"
Unlabelled: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammatory process of the pancreas that, according to the 2012 Atlanta classification, can be mild, moderate or severe.
Objective: Describe the epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic and outcomes of patients with AP admitted to the intensive care and intermediate care unit of a general hospital and compare them with those described in the national and international literature.
Materials And Methods: Observational study of patients with AP treated over a period of 3 years.
Background: In recent years there has been an increase in the use of self-expanding metallic stents (SEMS) in patients with unresectable malignant stenosis of the bile duct. However, in Peru there are no reports on the safety and efficacy of this procedure.
Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the use of SEMS in the palliative management of malignant stenosis of the bile duct.
Article Synopsis
- Endoscopic dilation is the preferred treatment for esophageal strictures, but there has been a lack of safety studies in the local region.
- This study looked at 164 patients over a span of two years to determine the safety of the procedure and factors leading to complications, finding six complications in total among 474 dilations performed.
- Results indicate that esophageal dilation is generally safe, as not following the "rule of 3" was not linked to higher complication rates, although balloon dilation was identified as a predictive factor for complications.
We report the case of a 60-year-old Peruvian female who was admitted with abdominal pain and jaundice. Cholangioscopy revealed a leaf-like trematode, Fasciola hepatica. This trematode was extracted with a Dormia's basket via endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate the prevalence of helicobacter pylori infection and the histological type of gastritis in patients with erosive esophagitis and compare these findings with a control group without esophagitis.
Materials And Methods: Prospective study in the settings of a private clinic in Lima, Peru. Each esophagitis and control patient had two biopsies taken from the antrum, two from the corpus as well as two additional samples for the ureasa (CLO) test.
[Etiology of chronic diarrhea in the elderly in Hospital Edgardo Rebagliati, Lima-Peru].
Rev Gastroenterol Peru
January 2014
Introduction: The impact of chronic diarrhea in the elderly is disproportionate by several factors causing increased morbidity and mortality.
Objective: To describe the main features about the chronic diarrhea in elderly patients from Edgardo Rebagliati Hospital (Lima-Peru) during the period January 2005 to December 2011,
Method: A descriptive and retrospective study in which we reviewed the medical records of elderly patients with the diagnosis of chronic diarrhea, pouring in a data collection sheet.
Results: We reviewed the medical records of 202 patients.