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J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth
December 2016
‡?>Anesthesiology, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA.
Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol
October 2003
Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Accurate diagnosis of acute pancreatitis and assessment of disease severity is crucial. Multiorgan failure predicts a poorer prognosis. Treatment of acute biliary pancreatitis by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) may improve overall prognosis.
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November 2000
Department of Surgery, Queen of Angels-Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, California 90027, USA.
Background: Jaundice presenting after cholecystectomy may be the initial manifestation of a serious surgical misadventure and requires rigorous diagnostic pursuit and therapeutic intervention. Biloma is a well recognized postcholecystectomy complication that often accompanies biliary ductal injury.
Case Report: A 23-year-old female underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallstones and three weeks postoperatively developed painless jaundice.
A variety of complications secondary to thromboembolectomy with balloon catheters have been described. The present report describes an unusual and previously unreported complication following retrograde thrombectomy of an occluded limb of an aortofemoral graft. The variety of arterial injuries and technical misadventures attributable to balloon catheters are briefly discussed, and suggestions are made for avoiding the particular problem encountered in the patient described.
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