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Am J Transl Res
December 2024
Department of Interventional Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University Heifei 230001, Anhui, China.
Objectives: To analyze the efficacy and influencing factors of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography and biliary drainage (PTCD) in patients with malignant obstructive jaundice (MOJ).
Methods: The study included 151 MOJ patients admitted from January 2021 to January 2024. Seventy patients in the control group received endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), while 81 patients in the research group underwent PTCD.
J Vasc Interv Radiol
January 2025
Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address:
Purpose: To assess whether safety profile and treatment success of percutaneous biodegradable biliary stent placement are competitive with traditional treatment options for treatment of benign biliary strictures.
Materials And Methods: PubMed and EMBASE were systematically reviewed for articles reporting percutaneous biodegradable stent placement for treating benign biliary strictures. Databases were searched for articles until December 2023, with the earliest included article dating from April 2016.
J Clin Med
December 2024
Ist Department of Radiology and Diagnostics Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lodz, Narutowicza 60, 90-136 Lodz, Poland.
Posttraumatic upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a very rare consequence of blunt liver trauma. It can be quite a diagnostic challenge for clinicians, as it can clinically manifest many weeks after the trauma or be scantily symptomatic. The following article would like to provide an analysis of clinical cases of 13 patients following blunt liver injuries, the main symptoms of which was bleeding into the gastrointestinal tract through the biliary tree.
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January 2025
Department of Upper Gastrointestinal/Hepatobiliary Surgery, Western Hospital, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia.
Introduction: Haemobilia causing obstructive jaundice is a rare complication with most occurrences reported post instrumentation e.g. endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), percutaneous transhepatic cholangioagraphy (PTC) and, trans-cystic duct exploration or due to hepatic tree pseudoaneurysms.
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December 2024
Interventional Radiology, Houston Vascular Care, Houston, USA.
Cystic artery pseudoaneurysms are a rare but life-threatening entity that commonly occurs as a sequela to acute cholecystitis. We present a case of a 52-year-old male with a past medical history of decompensated alcoholic liver cirrhosis who underwent a transjugular liver biopsy (TJLB) after correction of his baseline coagulopathy. On post-operative day one, the patient had significant blood loss with an inappropriate response to blood transfusions and without an identifiable source of bleeding.
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