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Bouveret's Syndrome as a Rare Life-Threatening Complication of Gallstone Disease-A Surgical Problem: Two Case Reports.
Medicina (Kaunas)
December 2024
Medical Faculty, University of Nis, 18000 Nis, Serbia.
: Bouveret syndrome, a rare and often underdiagnosed variant of gallstone ileus, is characterized by the presence of a large gallstone impacted in the proximal duodenum, resulting in significant gastric outlet obstruction and aerobilia. Early identification of Bouveret syndrome is crucial for developing an appropriate surgical strategy. : A 76-year-old female underwent a contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scan, which revealed a cholecysto-duodenal fistula with a 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUpdates in Biliary Atresia: Aetiology, Diagnosis and Surgery.
Children (Basel)
January 2025
Department of Paediatric Surgery, Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK.
Biliary atresia (BA) is an obliterative disease of the bile ducts affecting between 1 in 10,000-20,000 infants with a predominance in Asian countries. It is clinically heterogeneous with a number of distinct variants (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTERT de novo mutation-associated dyskeratosis congenita and porto-sinusoidal vascular disease: a case report.
J Med Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Hepatic Biliary Pancreatic Medicine, First Hospital of Jilin University, 1 Xinmin Avenue, Changchun, 130021, China.
Background: Dyskeratosis congenita is a rare genetic disease due to telomere biology disorder and characterized by heterogeneous clinical manifestations and severe complications. "Porto-sinusoidal vascular disease" has been recently proposed, according to new diagnostic criteria, to replace the term "idiopathic non-cirrhotic portal hypertension." TERT plays an important role in telomeric DNA repair and replication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQuantitative Evaluation of 99mTc-Galactosyl Human Serum Albumin SPECT/CT for the Prediction of Posthepatectomy Liver Failure.
Clin Nucl Med
January 2025
From the Department of Radiology.
Purpose: To evaluate the predictive ability of 99mTc-galactosyl human serum albumin SPECT/CT quantitative parameters for posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF).
Methods: Sixty-eight patients who underwent 99mTc-galactosyl human serum albumin scintigraphy as a preoperative examination for hepatectomy between July 2021 and December 2023 were prospectively evaluated. The patients were divided into PHLF and non-PHLF groups.
Surgical approach to a biliary tract cyst in an elderly cat.
Vet Res Commun
January 2025
School of Agricultural Sciences, Innovation and Business, University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil.
Choledochal cyst or biliary tract cyst is a pathological condition characterized by abnormal dilation of the hepatobiliary system. In veterinary medicine, case descriptions and histological characterizations of this biliary malformation are scarce, requiring reliance on data from human medicine. A presumptive diagnosis typically involves imaging studies, with histopathological examination required for confirmation.
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