A 51-year-old male presented with abdominal pain and jaundice. He was subsequently diagnosed with cholestatic jaundice and cholangitis. A side-viewing duodenoscope failed to identify the ampulla of Vater in the second portion of duodenum. A regular gastroscope was used, and an ectopic ampulla of Vater was identified in the pyloric channel.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Various opinions have been expressed as to the long term prognosis of liver disease associated with Alagille syndrome (AGS). PATIENTS AND METHODS We reviewed the outcome of 163 children with AGS and liver involvement, investigated from 1960 to 2000, the end point of the study (median age 10 years (range 2 months to 44 years)) being death, liver transplantation, or the last...

Semisynthetic penicillins are widely used antibiotics. Hepatotoxicity (mainly cholestatic) associated with these drugs is a rare, but well described phenomenon.' 2 Several series of cholestatic hepatitis have been reported after treatment with flucloxacillin,2A whereas only isolated cases related to cloxacillin have been described.`'0 Cholestatic jaundice may develop up to seven weeks following...

background: patients with malignant obstruction of the biliary tract suffer from progressive jaundice and purities, and if the obstruction is not relieved they will die from cholangitis, septicaemia or liver failure. the correct choice between many operative and non-operative procedures available to relive jaundice is not yet determined. unresectable disease (perihilar cholangiocarcinoma) found...

how to cite this article: alaei mr. preinatal types of niemann-pick disease type c. iran j child neurol. 2015 autumn;9:4(suppl.1): 12. pls see pdf.