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Sph of Oddi consists of a circular inner muscle layer and a longitudinal outer muscle layer. The circular layer does not depend on the duodenum. The longitudinal layer passes from the wall of the duodenum and separates ascending and descending parts superimposing over its circular layer. The
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is inflammation of the pancreas that can become a fatal disease or lead to severe complications . It is characterized clinically by abdominal pain and by increased pancreatic enzyme levels in the blood or urine. Gallstone migration and alcohol abuse are the two major risk
Acute cholecystitis is an inflammatory process presenting with biliary colic that is unremitting and may persist for more than 1 day. Obstruction of the cystic duct by a gallstone is the initiating event that leads to distention, inflammation and edema of the gallbladder wall. When the gallbladder
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is rapid-onset inflammation of the pancreas that varies in severity from a self-limiting mild illness to rapidly progressive multiple organ failure. Statistics suggest that 10-20% of patients with AP develop severe AP (SAP),1 which usually has an unfavourable disease
The two most important causes of iron overload disease in humans are the iron-loading disorder hereditary hemochromatosis (HC), and transfusional siderosis in patients with chronic hematological diseases like myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), thalassemia, and leukemia.
Hemochromatosis. In HC the
TITLE: Moderate Versus Aggressive Fluid Therapy in Patients with Mild to Moderate Acute Pancreatitis
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESES In the United States, acute pancreatitis results in more than 200,000 hospital admissions each year and has an associated mortality of 5%. While protease inhibitors,
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an acute inflammatory disease of the pancreas which can lead to a systemic inflammatory response syndrome with significant morbidity and mortality in 20% of patients. Part of endocrine function of pancreas would be affected in AP. Stress hyperglycemia would explode at