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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-64938

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The outcome of liver transplantation (LT) is influenced by the recipient's clinical condition. In a retrospective observational study, we evaluated the role of pre-LT Molecular Adsorbent Recirculating System (MARS) treatment in improving the clinical status and thereby the outcome of patients with chronic liver disease and severe hepatic decompensation. METHODS: Between March 2002 and September 2006, 70 patients with end-stage chronic liver disease underwent living-donor LT (LDLT). Of these, 9 (13%) patients with severely decompensated liver function (serum bilirubin> 350 micromol/L [20 mg/dL] and/or hepatic encephalopathy > or = grade 2) received pre-LT MARS treatment. RESULTS: The median MELD score was 33 (range, 26-47). A median of 2 (range, 1-6) sessions (8 hour/session) of MARS dialysis was performed per patient. MARS treatment was associated with reduction in serum bilirubin, creatinine and ammonia levels and no procedure-related complications. CONCLUSION: Pre-LT MARS is well tolerated and results in reduction of jaundice and improvement in renal function and may be useful in the management of patients with severe hepatic decompensation.


Assuntos
Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Hepatopatias/fisiopatologia , Transplante de Fígado , Fígado Artificial , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos
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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-64339

RESUMO

Gastric outlet obstruction due to a gallstone impacted in the duodenal bulb (Bouveret's syndrome) is a rare complication of gallstones. We report a 47-year-old man with this syndrome in whom the impacted stone migrated uneventfully.


Assuntos
Duodenoscopia , Cálculos Biliares/complicações , Obstrução da Saída Gástrica/diagnóstico , Humanos , Fístula Intestinal/diagnóstico , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Remissão Espontânea
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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-63586

RESUMO

We report a 2-year-old girl with spontaneous perforation of choledochal cyst. Preoperative diagnosis was possible by hepatobiliary scintigraphy. In view of emergency presentation and bile peritonitis, management was a staged procedure with peritoneal lavage and T-tube drainage of the biliary system, followed by excision of the cyst and Roux-en-Y hepatico-jejunostomy 3 months later.


Assuntos
Pré-Escolar , Procedimentos Cirúrgicos do Sistema Digestório/métodos , Drenagem/métodos , Feminino , Humanos , Lavagem Peritoneal/métodos , Ruptura Espontânea , Resultado do Tratamento
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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-125186

RESUMO

Carcinoma of the stomach is an important cause of mortality due to cancer. Carcinoma of the stomach is common in the southern region of India. We conducted a retrospective study on the epidemiological, clinical and survival patterns among the patients with carcinoma of the stomach, attending our hospital from June 19, 1995 to 1st January 2003. All the patients had histopathological confirmation of malignancy. Patients with gastrooesophageal junction lesions were excluded. Surgery was performed with curative as well as palliative intent in suitable patients. Chemotherapy has been incorporated in to the combined modality treatment in our hospital since July 2000. Postoperative chemotherapy comprised commonly used intravenous chemotherapy regimens, while oral chemotherapy (etoposide) was given to patients with disease not amenable to surgery, and those having poor performance and nutritional status. Oral etoposide was given in a dose of 50 mg/day for 14 days, in a 28 day cycle. Quality of life was assessed in the oral chemotherapy group. Out of the 1749 cancer patients seen during the period, 151 had gastric malignancy (8.6%). The median age was 55 years (range 15-84 years). The male to female ratio was 4:1. Adenocarcinoma was found in 148 patients, 2 had stromal tumours and 1 had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Stage disribution was as follows; stage 2-1 patient , stage 3a-25, stage3b-49, stage4-3 1, Metastatic-28. Staging was not completed in 17 patients. Eighty-nine patients underwent surgery. Fifty-nine patients (39%) did not have surgery. One patient underwent polypectomy. Curative gastrectomy was performed in 11 patients. Thirty-nine patients underwent palliative tumour resection. Palliative gastro-jejunostomy for relief of symptoms was performed in 26 patients and exploratory laparotomy alone was perforaied in 13. Thirty-eight patients received chemotherapy. Out of these, only 2 patients had prior complete resection of the tumour and 36 received palliative chemotherapy. Intravenous chemotherapy was given to 17 patients and oral chemotherapy to 19; All the patients who received oral etoposide did not experience any toxicity. Patients who received intravenous chemotherapy (n=17) had the following toxicities: grade 3 emesis in 4 (20%), discoloration of the skin and nails in 6(31%), alopecia in 8 (50%), grade 3 diarrhoea in 3 (15%) and neutropenic fever in 4 patients (20%). Median survival for the cohort was 10.4 months. Quality of life parameters, such as sleep, appetite, weight, pain, work and general sense of ill health showed improvement. In conclusion, 8.6% of all cancers at our hospital were due to cancer of stomach, in whom distal gastric tumor were more frequent and most were non-resectable. Median survival was 10.4 months. Oral etoposide was found to be safe, improved the quality of life and may play a role in the palliative management of advanced carcinoma of the stomach.


Assuntos
Adenocarcinoma/epidemiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Protocolos de Quimioterapia Combinada Antineoplásica/uso terapêutico , Terapia Combinada , Feminino , Humanos , Índia/epidemiologia , Masculino , Prontuários Médicos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estadiamento de Neoplasias , Qualidade de Vida , Estudos Retrospectivos , Fatores Sexuais , Neoplasias Gástricas/epidemiologia , Análise de Sobrevida
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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-64895

RESUMO

OBJECTIVES: To analyze the morphological changes in bile ducts following endobiliary stent insertion, and consequent technical problems encountered at surgery. METHODS: Data on bile duct morphology--gross (luminal diameter and wall thickness) and microscopic (histological changes in bile duct wall graded semiquantitatively)--and operative parameters related to bile duct dissection (grade of difficulty in dissection) were collected prospectively in 31 consecutive patients undergoing pancreatico-duodenectomy. These data were compared between patients who had undergone preoperative endoscopic biliary stent placement (n=17) and those who had not (n=14). RESULTS: Mean duration of stenting before surgery was 34 (range 10-120) days. Stented ducts were significantly narrower (luminal diameter 9 [7-12] mm vs. 17.5 [8-23] mm; p=0.0001) and had thicker walls (2.3 [1.3-3.5] mm vs. 1.85 [0.8-2.2] mm; p=0.004) compared to non-stented ones. On microscopy, stented ducts had advanced grades of submucosal gland hypertrophy, fibrosis and inflammatory cell infiltrate. Difficulty in bile duct dissection was encountered more often in patients who had been stented than in those without stents, though the difference was not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Endobiliary stent placement results in significant morphological and fibroproliferative inflammatory changes in bile ducts, making dissection difficult.


Assuntos
Adulto , Idoso , Ductos Biliares/patologia , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Colestase Extra-Hepática/terapia , Ducto Colédoco/patologia , Dissecação , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Neoplasias Pancreáticas/cirurgia , Pancreaticoduodenectomia , Cuidados Pré-Operatórios , Stents/efeitos adversos , Fatores de Tempo
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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-65474

RESUMO

We report two patients, one with liver cirrhosis and another with extrahepatic portal vein obstruction, who developed acute mesenteric vein thrombosis following endoscopic variceal sclerotherapy with absolute alcohol. Both patients recovered after emergency laparotomy and resection of gangrenous bowel loop.


Assuntos
Adolescente , Adulto , Etanol/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Humanos , Oclusão Vascular Mesentérica/etiologia , Veias Mesentéricas , Escleroterapia/efeitos adversos , Trombose Venosa/etiologia
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Artigo em Inglês | IMSEAR | ID: sea-64640

RESUMO

Brunner's gland adenoma (Brunneroma) is a rare entity. We report a patient who presented with severe anemia due to bleed from a large Brunneroma arising from the duodenal bulb, and was managed successfully by surgical excision of the tumor.


Assuntos
Adenoma/complicações , Adulto , Glândulas Duodenais/patologia , Neoplasias Duodenais/complicações , Hemorragia Gastrointestinal/etiologia , Humanos , Masculino , Melena/diagnóstico
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