Pancreatic pseudocysts are a known complication of pancreatitis. There are a multitude of complications which have been described in relation to pancreatic pseudocysts. Perforation of a gastrointestinal hollow viscus is rare but has previously been r...
Background and Objectives: Pancreatic pseudocysts often arise as complications of pancreatitis and present unique challenges in clinical management, encompassing considerations for both technical aspects and financial implications. Before the advance...
Management of a solitary pancreatic pseudocyst with endoscopic transpapillary stent drainage is a well recognized treatment modality. Endoscopic options are however limited in the presence of multiple pancreatic pseudocysts. Conventionally surgery ha...
The pancreatic pseudocyst represents the main complication that occurred 3 to 6 weeks after an outbreak of acute or chronic pancreatitis represented by a collection containing pancreatic enzymes without their own epithelial wall. In the present paper...
Pancreatic pseudocysts (PPCs) are frequent complications of acute and chronic pancreatitis, characterized by encapsulated collections of pancreatic fluid. Historically managed by open surgical approaches, treatment paradigms have significantly evolve...
Giant pancreatic pseudocysts are considered those cysts whose dimensions exceed 10 cm and are sporadically reported in the literature. Although there are multiple treatment modalities, there are currently no treatment guidelines or consensus on the b...
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients have a high prevalence of coronary artery disease, and coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is one of the essential treatments. ESRD patients undergoing CABG surgery have an increased risk of postoperative compl...
Pancreatic pseudocysts (PPs) and walled-off necrosis (WON) are two distinct sequelae of acute and chronic pancreatitis, requiring accurate differentiation to guide appropriate management. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...
Background: Endoscopic cysto-gastrostomy (ECG) has become the treatment of choice for pancreatic pseudocysts (PPCs). Endoscopic drainage of PPCs requires the creation of an anastomosis between the lumen of the PPCs and the lumen of the gastrointestin...
A 69-year-old female with recurrent esophageal cancer and multiple lymph node metastases and vomiting was admitted to our hospital. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed a lymph node metastasis that had become cystic and enlarged, and was suggested...
Pancreatic pseudocysts represent a complication of acute interstitial edematous pancreatitis with a frequency of about 10–20%, and most of these resolve spontaneously. Treatment is indicated only in patients who develop symptoms such as abdominal pai...
Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is the most accurate imaging modality for the evaluation of different types of pancreatic cystic lesions. Our aim was to analyze EUS images of pancreatic cystic lesions using an image processing software. We specified...
(1) Background: Alcohol consumption is one of the main causes of acute pancreatitis. (2) Material and Methods: In this unicentric retrospective cohort study, we selected 1855 patients from the Bucharest Acute Pancreatitis Index (BUC-API) who presente...
Undetermined pancreatic cystic lesion (PCL) differentiation benefits from endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) based on morphology and cyst fluid analysis, but room for new biomarkers exists. Our aim was to assess the intracystic and serum diagnostic value of...
A case of acute pancreatitis in a 43-year-old male patient, which was eventually diagnosed as agenesis of dorsal pancreas with eventration of left hemidiaphragm and intrapancreatic pseudocyst is being reported.
Paediatric chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a rare and debilitating pathology that often requires invasive diagnostics and therapeutic interventions either to address a primary cause such as a pancreaticobiliary malunion or to deal with secondary complic...
Pancreatic pseudocyst (PC) and walled-off necrosis (WON) are dreaded complications of acute pancreatitis. Standard therapy consists of endoscopic ultrasound-guided transmural placement of stents to expedite resolution through internal drainage of flu...
Background: Peripancreatic collections (PPCs) are a frequent and severe complication of acute and chronic pancreatitis, as well as pancreatic surgery, often requiring interventions to treat and prevent infection, gastric obstruction, and other compli...
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is the most common cause of gastrointestinal-related hospitalizations in the United States, with gallstone disease and alcohol as the leading etiologies. Management is determined by disease severity, classified as interstitial...
We aimed at evaluating the prognostic capacity of the inflammatory indices derived from routine complete blood cell counts in two groups of patients with acute pancreatitis from two different time periods, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, whe...
Introduction: The management of symptomatic peripancreatic fluid collections (PFCs), including pancreatic pseudocysts (PPs) and walled-off necrosis (WON), remains a clinical challenge. Methods: We conducted a single-center retrospective cohort study...
Background/Objectives: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is an illness that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment since it has the potential to become life-threatening. The American College of Gastroenterology 2024 (ACG24) guidelines offer a framework for di...
The occurrence of the pseudoaneurysm of visceral arteries in the field of chronic pancreatitis is a very rare complication that represents a life-threatening condition. The higher frequency of this complication is in the necrotic form of pancreatic i...
Pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs) are a common sequela of pancreatitis. Most PFCs can be managed conservatively, but symptomatic PFCs require either surgical, percutaneous, or endoscopic intervention. Recent advances in the therapeutics of PFCs, in...
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided drainage using lumen-apposing metal stents (LAMSs) has become the standard for managing pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs), especially walled-off necrosis (WON). However, LAMS-specific adverse events (AEs), includi...
Blunt pancreatic injury (BPI) is relatively uncommon in children, and is associated with relatively high morbidity and mortality, especially if diagnosis is delayed. The aim of this report is to review the literature regarding controversial questions...
The accurate classification of pancreatic cystic lesions remains clinically challenging due to overlapping imaging features and variable malignant potential. Mucinous cystic neoplasms, in particular, require early identification given their premalign...
Endotherapy is a recognized, widely available, and minimally invasive treatment method for pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs) formed in the course of acute pancreatitis (AP). The use of endoscopic techniques in the treatment of main pancreatic duct...
Background and Clinical Significance: Splenic artery pseudoaneurysm (SAP) is a rare but life-threatening complication of chronic pancreatitis. Although endovascular embolization achieves high technical success, recurrence and delayed rupture may occu...
We report a case of a 48-year-old female, who presented with refractory haemetemesis. Her oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy showed only a healing ulcer but profuse bleeding was seen from duodenum. In spite of a negative oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy she wa...
19 September 2022
Background: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) has been described as a multifactorial, ongoing inflammatory condition of the pancreas of varying intensity that produces persistent pain, leading to exocrine and endocrine insufficiency and a decreased lifespan....
Background and Objectives: Acute peripancreatic fluid collection (APFC) is an acute local complication of acute pancreatitis (AP) according to the revised Atlanta classification. Sometimes APFC resolves completely, sometimes it changes into a pseudoc...
Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are increasingly detected due to widespread use of cross-sectional imaging. They encompass a heterogeneous group of lesions, ranging from benign pseudocysts and serous cystic neoplasms (SCNs) to premalignant mucinous...
Background/Objectives: Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most aggressive and lethal malignancies, with limited effective treatment options for advanced stages. Microwave Ablation (MWA) has emerged as a minimally invasive therapeutic modality, offe...
Background: The aim of this multicentre retrospective study is to determine the incidence, etiology, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of kidney transplant recipients diagnosed and treated for acute pancreatitis. Methods: We analyzed data from k...
The rate of incidentally detected pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) has increased over the past decade and was recently reported at 8%. These lesions pose a unique challenge, as each subtype of PCL carries a different risk of malignant transformation,...
Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a multifactorial, complicated inflammatory process that involves the organ and the tissues around it. In children, the most common causes of acute pancreatitis are abdominal trauma, infections (mostly viruses), systemic dis...
Background: Currently, proposed nomograms are mainly based on post-operative histopathology. The purpose of this study was to identify preoperative computed tomography (CT) and clinical information that allow prediction of disease-free (DFS) and over...
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) gained wide acceptance as the diagnostic and minimally invasive therapeutic approach for intra-luminal and extraluminal gastrointestinal, as well as various non-gastrointestinal lesions. Since its introduction, EUS has und...
Background and Objectives: Glucose metabolism alterations are very common in solid pancreatic lesions, particularly in pancreatic cancer. Similarly, diabetes and especially new-onset diabetes (NOD) have been associated with the malignant transformati...
Fluid therapy is the cornerstone of early supportive therapy in acute pancreatitis (AP). Regrettably, the type of fluid is still debated among clinicians, despite recent evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We aimed to incorporate all e...
5 November 2021
Postoperative fluid collection (POFC) is a challenging complication following pancreatobiliary surgery. Traditional treatment with surgical drainage is associated with significant morbidity, while percutaneous drainage is associated with a higher rat...
Background/Objectives: Sickle cell disease (SCD) impacts about 100,000 people in the US. SCD increases the risk of cholelithiasis and microvascular ischemia, which could increase the risk of acute pancreatitis (AP). Abdominal pain is a common present...
Background/Objectives: Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) are increasingly being detected due to the widespread use of cross-sectional imaging. Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is the preferred modality for evaluating their nature and malignancy risk, yet f...
Introduction: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a long-standing progressive inflammation of the pancreas, which can lead to a variety of vascular complications, such as splanchnic venous thrombosis (VT) and arterial pseudoaneurysm (PA). There is a lack of...
Accurate classification of pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) is important to facilitate proper treatment and to improve patient outcomes. We utilized the convolutional neural network (CNN) of VGG19 to develop a computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) system in...
The increasing use of high-resolution cross-sectional imaging has significantly enhanced the detection of pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs), including pseudocysts and neoplastic entities such as IPMN, MCN, and SCN. However, accurate categorization of...