ALLMedicine™ Paracentesis Center

Mar 28th, 2023 - Guidelines recommend that all hospitalized patients with cirrhosis and ascites receive an early (<24 h from admission) paracentesis. However, national data are not available regarding compliance with and consequences of this quality metric. We uti...

Mar 25th, 2023 - Ascites impairs the correct diagnosis and nutritional management in patients with cirrhosis, because the body weight, which is needed for nutritional assessment and calculation of nutritional needs, is overestimated. To adjust the weight in patien...

Mar 7th, 2023 - Cirrhotic patients presenting with spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) have elevated risk of short-term mortality. While high Model for End-Stage Liver Disease-Sodium score (MELD-Na) and ascites culture yielding multi-drug resistance (MDR) bac...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Non-arteritic, thromboembolic central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is an acute neurovascular-ophthalmological emergency which leads to severe and permanent vision loss in the affected eye in ~ 95% of cases. Despite a variety of widely practiced...

Feb 27th, 2023 - Malignant ascites appear when cancer cells metastasize to peritoneal cavity and interfere the circulation of lymph and blood. Patients with malignant ascites suffer from abdominal fullness, abdominal pain, poor intake, decreased nutrition, disabil...

Sep 9th, 2022 - The purpose of this American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Clinical Practice Update is to review the available published evidence and expert advice regarding the clinical management of patients with suspected acute kidney injury ...

Oct 18th, 2020 - The British Society of Gastroenterology in collaboration with British Association for the Study of the Liver has prepared this document. The aim of this guideline is to review and summarise the evidence that guides clinical diagnosis and managemen...

Nov 16th, 2011 - To review the clinical aspects of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome and provide recommendations on its diagnosis and clinical management. These guidelines will assist in the early recognition and management of ovarian hyperstimulation. Early recog...

Mar 2nd, 2023 - Non-arteritic, thromboembolic central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) is an acute neurovascular-ophthalmological emergency which leads to severe and permanent vision loss in the affected eye in ~ 95% of cases. Despite a variety of widely practiced...

Feb 27th, 2023 - Malignant ascites appear when cancer cells metastasize to peritoneal cavity and interfere the circulation of lymph and blood. Patients with malignant ascites suffer from abdominal fullness, abdominal pain, poor intake, decreased nutrition, disabil...

Feb 16th, 2023 - Background: Ongoing research in the Molecular Pharmacology Section, NCI, requires the availability of blood, fluid, bone marrow, tumor, hair follicle and tissue samples from patients with cancer. Resistance is the underlying cause of treatment fai...

Feb 14th, 2023 - Patients with refractory ascites defined as requiring >1 paracentesis within a 6 week period will be prospectively enrolled. The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS-10) and ascites-specific (Ascites Q and Edmonton Symp...

Feb 13th, 2023 - Ascites is one of the common complications in advanced liver cirrhosis. Large-volume paracentesis (LVP) is a widely used symptomatic intervention to remove large amounts of peritoneal fluid. Despite a low rate of interventional-associated complica...

Nov 17th, 2022 - WASHINGTON, DC — For patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) undergoing modest-volume paracentesis for ascites, oral midodrine may be an alternative to intravenous albumin for preventing paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction (PI...

Sep 1st, 2022 - Introduction Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) cases with thrombocytopenia (T), anasarca (A), Fever (F), reticulin fibrosis (R), and organomegaly (O) are considered a subtype of iMCS called TAFRO syndrome. It is a rare syndrome char.

Aug 18th, 2022 - A reduction in portal hepatic pressure gradient (PPG) soon after implantation of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) greater than 60% was associated with improved ascites control at 6 weeks in a study published in Hepatology. "T...

Aug 15th, 2022 - Transcript: Tanios Bekaii-Saab, MD: Anthony, we keep talking about IO [immuno-oncology] and IO combinations. We still have other elements in our armamentarium, the TKIs [tyrosine kinase inhibitors] such as lenvatinib or sorafenib. Who are the pat...

Jul 7th, 2022 - Patients discharged to hospice after gastrointestinal surgery, which was typically done urgently or emergently, usually had multiple prior admissions, found a retrospective study suggesting room for improvement in advance care planning. Fully 89% ...