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Cholate Shunt, Oral Cholate Challenge and Endoscopic Lesions of Portal Hypertension: The SHUNT-V Study.
Aliment Pharmacol Ther
January 2025
HepQuant, LLC, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Background: The accuracy of current criteria for ruling out large oesophageal varices (LEV) and other endoscopic lesions of portal hypertension (PH) may be compromised by obesity and MASLD/MASH.
Aims: In the US multicentre SHUNT-V study, we evaluated the disease severity index (DSI) for detecting LEV and other lesions of PH at endoscopy.
Methods: Subjects were adults with compensated cirrhosis scheduled for endoscopy to screen for varices.
Pediatric Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Liver: A Rare Cause of Portal Hypertension.
ACG Case Rep J
March 2019
Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Cleveland, OH.
Hepatic inflammatory pseudotumors or myofibroblastic tumors are benign neoplasms rarely seen in children. We report a case of a previously healthy 10-year-old girl with prolonged fever and abdominal pain who was found to have hepatosplenomegaly and pancytopenia. Imaging revealed a periportal mass along with thrombosis of portal vein and splenomegaly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCT colonography with computer-aided detection: recognizing the causes of false-positive reader results.
Radiographics
November 2015
From the Department of Radiology, MC2026, University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 S Maryland Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 (I.T., A.H.D., M.W.V.); Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill (K.W.); and Department of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, Neb (J.M.H.).
Computed tomography (CT) colonography is a screening modality used to detect colonic polyps before they progress to colorectal cancer. Computer-aided detection (CAD) is designed to decrease errors of detection by finding and displaying polyp candidates for evaluation by the reader. CT colonography CAD false-positive results are common and have numerous causes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRenal cell carcinoma mimicking adrenal tumor.
J Oncol
July 2011
Department of Urology, Kamkar Hospital, School of Medicine, Qom Medical Sciences University, 3715694978 Qom, Iran.
There are a variety of causes of adrenal pseudotumors on computerized tomography (CT) scan, including upper-pole renal mass, gastric diverticulum, prominent splenic lobulation, pancreatic mass, hepatic mass, and periadrenal varices. We present a case of a large subhepatic mass that discrimination of its origin from neighborhood organs was difficult preoperatively. Our patient was a 58 years old man, that three months after an unsuccessful operation in another center for a pseudoadrenal mass underwent a very difficult subcapsular tumorectomy in our center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Autoimmune pancreatitis: inflammatory pseudotumor, multifocal fibrosclerosis, portal hypertension, and long-term outcome].
Rev Esp Enferm Dig
October 2008
Servicios de Cirugía General y Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia y Universidad de Valencia.
Autoimmune pancreatitis is a recently characterized disease that still constitutes a diagnostic challenge, especially regarding differential diagnosis from neoplasia. Long-term outcome is poorly known. We herein report a case of a patient with autoimmune pancreatitis and 14 years of follow-up, and show its clinical, biochemical, and morphological characteristics.
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