Acute jaundice.

Systemic hypotension and renal failure in obstructive jaundice-mechanistic and therapeutic aspects.

The association between obstructive jaundice and postoperative acute renal failure has been originally described more than eight decades ago and is now a well-established clinical phenomenon. Acute renal failure occurs in 8 to 10% of patients requiring surgery for relief of obstructive jaundice and contributes to eventual mortality in 70 to 80% of those who develop it. A major factor that may u...

Acute myeloid leukaemia presenting as cholestatic hepatitis.

A 40 year old man presented with abdominal pain, jaundice, weight loss, and hepatosplenomegaly. Liver function tests revealed cholestatic jaundice and a computed tomography scan showed an enlarged liver, with a normal biliary tree. Liver biopsy showed diffuse infiltration by neutrophils, monocytoid cells, and blasts. Peripheral blood film and bone marrow were consistent with acute myeloid leuka...

Acute myeloid leukemia presenting as obstructive jaundice.

A 36-year-old man presented with abdominal pain and jaundice. Ultrasound examination of the abdomen showed dilatation of the intrahepatic bile ducts and a normal common bile duct. No calculi were demonstrated. A computerized tomography scan did not show any masses. A peripheral blood smear was diagnostic of acute myeloid leukemia. After remission-inducing chemotherapy, there was a complete regr...

Latent Liver Disease in Persons Recovered from Catarrhal Jaundice and in Otherwise Normal Medical Students as Revealed by the Bilirubin Excretion Test.

The frequency with which chronic non-hemolytic jaundice occurs in otherwise healthy young persons is not commonly recognized, nor 'is it usually appreciated how often an uncomplicated attack of catarrhal jaundice is followed by residual liver dysfunction which persists long after the acute episode. The present study was prompted by the accidental discovery of a relatively large number of medica...

Acute pancreatitis and obstructive jaundice as initial complaints of hepatocellular carcinoma: case report

BACKGROUND Patients with cirrhosis-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) rarely present with acute pancreatitis (AP) and obstructive jaundice as the main clinical features. AP with obstructive jaundice caused by common bile duct embolism (CBDE) is very rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 54-year-old man with CBDE was misdiagnosed with common bile duct stones three times over a 7-month period. Inves...

Protein-lipid relationships in human plasma: in biliary cirrhosis, obstructive jaundice, and acute hepatitis.