Cholegraphic signs of acute biliary stasis

Effect of Diclofenac Suppository on Treatment of Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

Background and Aim: Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory pancreatic disease that is associated with low or no fibrosis of the pancreas. Standard non-surgical treatment in all patients involves correcting water and electrolyte disorders, pain relief and avoiding pancreatic secretion. Given that pancreatitis is an inflammatory process, and NSAIDs have been shown to modulate inflammatory processe...

Acute cholecystitis, biliary obstruction, and biliary leakage.

The use of cholescintigraphy to diagnose acute cholecystitis, biliary obstruction, and biliary leakage dates back to the late 1970s. Today, despite the many advances in imaging instrumentation, radiopharmaceuticals, and methodology over these years, cholescintigraphy still plays an important role in confirming or excluding these diagnoses in acutely ill patients. Acute calculous and acalculous ...

Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

Acute Biliary Pancreatitis

More than 220,000 patients are admitted to hospital each year with acute pancreatitis in the United States alone.1 The most common etiology of acute pancreatitis is gallstones. This chapter will focus on diagnostic and management issues related to acute biliary pancreatitis (ABP). Differentiating gallstone-induced acute pancreatitis from other etiologies (alcohol, medication induced, hypertrigl...

Acute Biliary Septic Shock

Forty-seven cases of biliary tract infection with septic shock are presented. The sepsis was caused by empyema of the gallbladder in 23 cases and by cholangitis in the remainder. Gallstones were most frequently the cause of the sepsis. An appropriate diagnostic description of the syndrome of biliary tract infection and septic shock should therefore include a description of the underlying biliar...