Diseases of the liver and biliary tract

Veno-occlusive liver disease: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Veno-occlusive disease of the liver (sinusoidal occlusion syndrome) is caused by obstruction of the terminal hepatic venules and sinusoids of the liver, rather than the hepatic veins or inferior vena cava.

Budd-Chiari syndrome: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Budd-Chiari syndrome is an occlusion with impaired venous outflow through the hepatic veins, which can be localized at the level from the right atrium to small branches of the hepatic veins.

Ischemic cholangiopathy

Ischemic cholangiopathy is focal ischemia of the biliary tree of any etiology, in which destruction of the peribiliary arterial plexus occurs.

Liver infarction: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Liver infarction is focal hepatocellular necrosis resulting from focal liver ischemia of any etiology.

Ischemic hepatitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Ischemic hepatitis (acute liver infarction; hypoxic hepatitis; shock liver) is a diffuse liver lesion resulting from generalized liver ischemia of any etiology.

Fulminant hepatitis: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Fulminant hepatitis is a rare syndrome of massive necrosis of the liver parenchyma with a reduction in its size (acute yellow atrophy), which usually occurs with viral hepatitis or when exposed to toxic substances or drugs.

Tuberculosis and liver disease

Disorders of liver function and structure in patients with tuberculosis may be a consequence of the influence of tuberculosis intoxication, hypoxemia, taking anti-tuberculosis drugs, concomitant diseases, and tuberculous lesions of the hepatobiliary system.

Barrett's esophagus in children

The problem of Barrett's esophagus has attracted the attention of clinicians around the world for half a century. This topic has been studied in sufficient detail and is described in no less detail in the "adult" literature.

Strictures after liver transplantation

Complications of the biliary tract after liver transplantation develop in 10-20% of cases. These include strictures, bile leakage, fistulas and cholangitis. Strictures of anastomoses caused by technical errors, inflammation due to bile leakage and fibrosis, and strictures not associated with anastomoses, formed above the anastomosis in the direction of the porta hepatis, caused in some cases by duct ischemia, may be observed.

Gallbladder carcinoma

This tumor is rare. In 75% of cases, it is combined with gallstones, in many cases - with cholecystitis. There are no convincing signs of an etiological connection between these diseases. Any cause of gallstone formation predisposes to the development of a tumor.