"Billiary-cast" syndrome in a patient with acute biliary pancreatitis and pulmonary embolism.
"Biliary-cast syndrome" ("BCS") is most often encountered in clinical practice as a complication after liver transplantation, there are also described cases of biliary-cast syndrome in patients who did not undergo liver transplantation, isolated cases of "BCS" developing in patients with acute pancreatitis, choledocholithiasis are described in literature. Ischemic damage to bile duct epithelium with development of cholestasis and retrograde biliary tract infection are considered as the main etiological factors. This work presents a clinical case of "Biliary-cast syndrome" in a patient with acute biliary pancreatitis and pulmonary embolism.
Authors
- О.І. Dronov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4033-3195)
- Dmytro Vlasenko (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2260-422X)
- V A Makarov
Institutions
- Bogomolets National Medical University (UA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Wiadomości Lekarskie
- Published
- 2024-12-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.36740/wlek/194268
- Primary Topic
- Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00