Search Results - "cholangitis"

Aim: to highlight the challenges of diagnosing and treating a patient with severe intrahepatic cholangiolithiasis.Key points. Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a chronic progressive liver disease characterized by destructive inflammation and fibrosis in the bile ducts, leading to biliary strictures,...

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Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) are distinct liver diseases. Cases combining PBC and PSC, are extremely rare. Here, we present a case of a 39-year-old woman with a history of colonic Crohn's disease treated with azathioprin...

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Purpose: antiradical protection system assessment on local level among the patients with bile-excreting ducts obstruction.Materials and methods: the bile indices in patients with choledocholithiasis have been studied.Results: antioxidant system potential reducing observed on local level (in bile) ha...

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To develop the optimum medical-diagnostic algorithm, allowing to lower the lethality and frequency of complications at patients with acute cholangitis and biliary sepsis. To define interrelation and to reveal distinctions between acute cholangitis and biliary sepsis. Patients with acute cholangitis...

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On a section material and in experiment on 195 not purebred dogs and 130 organocomplexis corpses of people working out and an anatomo-experimental substantiation of 8 new functionally active microsurgical biliodigestivе anastomoses, possessing sphincterniс and antireflux is carried out by properties...

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There are studied frequency of abscesses of a liver at chronic opistorchosis; the reasons of cases; features of clinic, diagnostics, treatment. Laboratory, morphological, instrumental and clinical methods were applied. From 1 170 patients operated concerning complications chronic opistorchosis, live...

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Now purulent cholangitis has acquired the status of an independent problem on which solution further progress of surgery of a gepatobiliopancreatoduodenal zone depends. Substantially it is caused by increase in number of patients with the complicated cholelithiasis form, especially at elderly people...

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Choledochoduodenal fistula (CDF) is a rare condition marked by an abnormal connection between the biliary duct and duodenum. The common etiology of secondary CDF are cholecystolithiasis, tumor, and duodenal ulcer. CDF may also caused by prior inflammatory condition or as a complication of radiation...

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Objecive. To elaborate a diagnostic system, permitting to confirm or exclude the diagnosis of an acute cholangitis in patients, suffering biliary ducts obstruction. Materials and methods. The wok is based on analysis of clinical, laboratory and instrumental indices in 174 patients, suffering the...

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Aim: to demonstrate difficulties of differential diagnostics in the case of combined autoimmune pancreatitis, sclerosing cholangitis and ulcerative colitis. Colonic lesions that initially had low grade of inflammation were resistant to immunosuppressive therapy.Key points. A 28-year-old female patie...

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Objective: to determine the frequency, spectrum and severity of liver affection in anti-centromere antibodies (ACA) positive patients with primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS).Patients and methods. 119 ACA-positive patients with pSS were included in the study, 37 (31%) of them had signs of liver da...

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Background. The recurrence of autoimmune liver diseases can lead to reduced survival of recipients and grafts.Aim. To study the incidence and impact of the recurrence of autoimmune liver diseases on graft survival; the effect of maintenance immunosuppression on the recurrence of autoimmune diseases...

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The variations of the cystic duct are so common that only 30% of all humans present the classical anatomical arrangement between the common bile duct (CBD), the cystic duct, and adjacent arteries. Thus, it could be considered that anomalies of the biliary tree are a rule rather than an exception. Du...

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Цель. Изучение взаимосвязи маркеров эндотелиальной дисфункции при гнойном холангите у больных с хроническим гепатитом и без хронического гепатита на фоне обтурационной желтухи, выявление его раннего перехода в цирроз печени и оптимизация тактики лечения в до- и послеоперационном периоде с оценкой по...

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Background & Aims: In primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), some cholangiocytes undergo cell cycle arrest (senescence), whereas others proliferate (ductular reaction). Our aim was to determine the mechanisms driving this divergent response. Methods: We analyzed PSC and control liver tissue b...

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Background/Aims Biliary obstruction drainage in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is associated with symptom palliation, improved access to chemotherapy, and improved survival. Stent placement and exchange via endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography biliary drainage risk traversing...

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The aim: To present the state-of-the-art of clinical features, differential diagnosis and treatment of IgG4-related sclerosing cholangitis.Key points: IgG4-sclerosing cholangitis is a fibrotic inflammatory disease affecting the intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts. The clinical features of IgG4-...

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Introduction and Objectives: Early diagnosis of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) is fundamental, as treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) prevents its progression. The aim of our study is to investigate undiagnosed patients in our region and to treat retrieved patients. Patients and Methods: A...

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Цель. Определение факторов, способствующих развитию острого холангита (ОХ) или являющихся его признаками при доброкачественной обструкции внепеченочных желчных путей (ДОВЖП). Материалы и методы. Ретроспективно проанализированы 144 наблюдения ДОВЖП, ОХ отмечен в 17 наблюдениях. Проведено сравнение...

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