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Six patients with biliary tract infections who came to our hospital were administered 1.5 g (potency) per day of amoxicillin, a synthetic penicillin for oral use, to examine its clinical effects. The results were as follows. 1) Out of six patients with biliary tract infections, amoxicillin proved to
Twenty-seven cases of ascaris cholecystitis and cholangitis were managed in a surgical unit of a general hospital in Yangon, Myanmar, from January 1989 to March 1990. Nineteen women and eight men with a mean age of 42 years were studied. Main clinical manifestations were right hypochondrial pain,
Abscess formation of the falciform ligament is incredibly rare and perplexing when encountered for the first time. It is reported to occur in the setting of cholecystitis and cholangitis, but the pathophysiology is poorly understood.In this case report, we present a 73-year-old man with falciform
A 31-year-old woman presented with a one and half years' history of intermittent right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain, high fever and severely painful, warm and reddish swollen skin lesions on the fingers. Acute attack resolution occurred within 2 weeks after treatment with non-specific antibiotics.
Eight homosexual men with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) presented with clinical, biochemical, and radiologic features of stenosis of the papilla of Vater and sclerosing cholangitis. This newly recognized complication of AIDS produces abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting and may
BACKGROUND
Liver damage is relatively common in patients affected by HL, but paraneoplastic cholestasis is an uncommon presenting symptom in HL.
METHODS
We report the case of a 38-year-old man who came to our hospital with jaundice, pruritis, nausea, vomiting, weight loss, and recurrent episodes of
Parasitic infestations of the galdbladder and biliary tract are quite rare. Taenia saginata is an intestinal helmint and patients harbouring adult T.saginata tapeworms are mostly asymptomatic and discharge only fecal proglottids. In some cases there might be nonspecific symptoms like vomiting,
Acalculous cholangitis and cholecystitis may occur in the course of AIDS. The symptoms are always the same: pain in the right upper quadrant, fever, nausea, vomiting, anorexia and diarrhoea, associated with biochemical signs of cholestasis, often without jaundice. Morphological explorations show
A 68-year-old man without previous hepatobiliary or pancreatic disease was admitted after five attacks of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and high fever. Laboratory investigations indicated cholestatic liver disease and pancreatitis. For 1.5 years the patient had occasionally been taking a
OBJECTIVE
There is no effective therapy for patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Rats with experimental small bowel bacterial overgrowth develop hepatobiliary injury similar to PSC. The hepatobiliary injury results from peptidoglycan-polysaccharide-mediated activation of Kupffer
BACKGROUND
Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a rare liver disease which is mainly diagnosed in adults. This chronic progressive disease, characterised by inflammation, fibrosis and strictures of the intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts, leads to cirrhosis. There is a strong association between primary
A case of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is reported. A 16 year-old female developed right hypochondralgia and nausea without jaundice. Examination on admission showed elevation of SGOT, SGPT, Al-P, gamma-GTP and LAP activities, but T-Bil, AFP and CEA were within normal limits. Peripheral
Lomefloxacin (NY-198), a new antimicrobial quinolone, was examined for its antimicrobial activities against clinical isolates and clinical efficacies to biliary tract infections. The following results were obtained. 1. The MICs of NY-198 against Escherichia coli (20 strains) and Klebsiella
Laboratory and clinical comparative investigations with cefotiam (CTM) and cefazolin (CEZ) were performed to confirm efficacy and safety in surgical, biliary tract infections. The following results were obtained. 1) The MICs of CTM against organisms, 20 strains, which were isolated from bile of
Caroli disease is a rare congenital disorder resulting from the dilation of large intrahepatic bile ducts. Patients affected with Caroli disease are at increased risk of complications resulting from bile stasis and stone formation. We report the case of a 37-year-old woman with a past surgical