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The management of impacted common bile duct stones in patients with prior Billroth II gastrectomy poses unique challenges. Altered gastrointestinal anatomy renders duodenoscope passage and biliary cannulation during…
Read caseA 66-year-old man with alcohol-related cirrhosis and advanced hepatocellular carcinoma developed hematochezia the day after starting atezolizumab plus bevacizumab.
Two liver transplant recipients developed hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection of the graft in different settings. A recipient transplanted for HAV-related acute liver failure had a rapid fall in serum HAV RNA after…
A 16-year-old male underwent appendectomy for presumed appendicitis, but persistent postoperative bowel obstruction led to CT detection of a descending-colon tumor and emergency Hartmann’s procedure.
A 59-year-old woman presented with highly active, seropositive rheumatoid arthritis and marked cholestatic biochemical activity. Evaluation identified active primary biliary cholangitis without advanced liver fibrosis.
This article presents five cases of autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS-1/APECED), a disorder caused by impaired immune tolerance and typically associated with biallelic AIRE variants.
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