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Endoscopic gallbladder drainage (EGBD) has been used to treat acute cholecystitis or to relieve malignant biliary obstruction as an alternative to percutaneous gallbladder drainage and patient's are poor surgical candidates....
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in patients with liver cirrhosis, occurring in 13-20% of patients hospitalized with decompensated cirrhosis, and is significantly associated with the prognosis. The development and...
An endoscopic resection is performed widely and has been established as a standard therapeutic modality for the treatment of early gastric cancer (EGC) without lymph node metastasis. On the other...
Hyponatremia is a commonly observed complication that is related to hypoalbuminemia and portal hypertension in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis. Hyponatremia in patients with liver cirrhosis is mostly dilutional hyponatremia...
Ascites is the most common cause of decompensation in cirrhosis, and 5% to 10% of patients with compensated cirrhosis develop ascites each year. The main factor of ascites formation is...
Simple hepatic cysts are common benign liver lesions that usually have no malignant capability. They are generally asymptomatic and are often found incidentally by abdominal imaging procedures. Treatment becomes necessary,...
Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is defined as bacterial infections that occur in patients with cirrhosis and ascites without any significant intraperitoneal infection, accounting for approximately 10–30% of bacterial infections in...