Abstract   Acase of 48-year-old male, hepatitis B cirrhosis , hepatic hydatid cyst, jaundice,   fever, chills suffered from severe abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant. He was   suffered from acute cholangitis and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, and received   intravenous antibiotics but his condition rapidly deteriorated to sepsis and severe hepatic   failure. The presence of dilate...

Materials and methods: We investigated 148 patients that underwent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) due to complicated HHD between January 2000 and December 2006 at the endoscopy unit of the Department of Surgery of Atatürk University Medical School. Age, sex, indications for ERCP and endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES), ERCP findings, laboratory data, operative findings, postop...

The authors address the value of endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, ultrasonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and endoscopic ultrasound for the diagnosis of cystic and solid neoplasms of the pancreas, demonstrating that each of them is of great importance to undoubtedly increase the diagnostic accuracy of the biliopancreatic system diseases. The best method f...

Abstract: Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and related procedures are established as necessary techniques in the diagnosis treatment of biliopancreatic diseases. Caution is needed due to high risk complications that can be fatal. The main pancreatitis, bleeding, perforation, biliary stents, lithiasis issues. This study aimed evaluate therapeutic ERCP at Prof. Dr. R. D. Kand...

Autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) has historically been considered a rare disorder, but is increasingly recognized due to an improved understanding of its diverse nature and proper means of diagnosis. The current international consensus diagnostic criteria (ICDC) for the diagnosis of AIP incorporate 5 cardinal features: imaging characteristics of the pancreas (parenchyma and duct), serology, other ...

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) has become an effective and safe therapeutic method, providing clinical success in more than 80% of cases. As ERCP has evolved from a diagnostic to a therapeutic procedure, technical demands have risen. Furthermore, it is an invasive procedure that can be potentially harmful when administered improperly. Quality of ERCP and procedural outcom...

fasciola hepatica (f. hepatica) as a foodborne trematode can occasionally cause hepatobiliary diseases. we report a 67-year-old woman who was referred to our center because of the diagnosis of cholangitis. she was a resident of mountainous area with the history of unsafe water and contaminated vegetables. endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ercp) was performed as a diagnostic and th...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to analyze the treatment strategies of patients with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)-related perforations. This is a retrospective study. METHODS We experienced 13 perforations associated with ERCP. We reviewed the medical recordsand classified ERCP-related perforations according to mechanism of injury in terms of perforating device. ...

To assess the usefulness of endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERCP) in the study of acute pancreatitis, 101 of a possible 114 patients (89 per cent) with acute pancreatitis underwent ERCP after recovery from acute illness. In 81 per cent, ERCP was performed within two weeks of recovery. The biliary tract was successfully demonstrated in 87 per cent of the patients and the pancreatic duct i...