Ampicillin levels were measured in the serum and in the bile from both the gall bladder and the common bile duct in patients undergoing surgery for biliary tract diseases. In patients with radiologically non-functioning gall bladders ampicillin was either not present or its concentration was lower than normal. Therapeutic levels were present in the common bile duct of all patients except those ...

Unusual cases of acute cholecystitis and cholangitis include (1) pediatric biliary tract infections, (2) geriatric biliary tract infections, (3) acalculous cholecystitis, (4) acute and intrahepatic cholangitis accompanying hepatolithiasis (5) acute biliary tract infection accompanying malignant pancreatic-biliary tumor, (6) postoperative biliary tract infection, (7) acute biliary tract infectio...

Copyright © 2016 Mohamad H. Imam et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Biliary tract disorders encompass a wide range of benign and malignant disease processes. In this special issue, we aimed to highlight advance...

background: neonatal cholestasis is an important infant’s diseases of liver and biliary, they are wide range of situation including; idiopathic neonatal hepatitis, extrahepatic biliary tract atresia, choledochal cysts and infectious diseases. lack of early diagnosis of the disease can be followed by irreparably complications. the aim of this study was determination the histopathological causes ...

OBJECTIVE To study the pattern of general surgery cases and their management in a rural teaching institution. METHODS This descriptive case-series was conducted prospectively in Surgical Unit II at Fatima Hospital and Baqai Medical University, from June 16, 2005 to June 15, 2010. There were 1125 patients in the series who were managed either conservatively or operated upon. All patients with ...

Endoscopic biliary stents have been recently applied with increasing frequency as a palliative and curable method in several benign and malignant diseases. As a reminder, although most of the migrated stents pass through the intestinal tract without symptoms, a small portion can lead to complications. Herein, we present a case of intestinal perforation caused by a biliary stent in the hernia of...

Obstructive jaundice is a common surgical problem that occurs when there is blockage of the passage of conjugated bilirubin from liver to intestine. In most benign biliary diseases, jaundice is intermittent and incomplete. Only a few diseases (e.g. primary sclerosing cholangitis) result in persistent obstructive jaundice, or even in biliary cirrhosis and portal hypertension, and most cases are ...

Introduction Diseases aVecting the gall bladder and bile ducts occur commonly in the elderly. By the age of 70, cholelithiasis, the most frequently occurring disorder aVecting these organ systems, and its sequela, choledocholithiasis, are found in 33% of the population of the United States. The challenges facing the clinician responsible for treating elderly patients with biliary tract diseases...

The present study deals with the influence of common affections of the liver and biliary tract upon the level of serum phosphatase activity in the adult. It is an analysis of our observations during the period 1933 to 1939 on those patients with involvement of the liver or biliary tract in whom the diagnosis could be proven by exploration or necropsy, or when insusceptible of proof (as in the h...