Summary: The purpose of this study is to assess the long-term safety and effectiveness of odevixibat in participants with Alagille syndrome (ALGS). The participants of this study will have ALGS a rare genetic disorder that can affect multiple organ systems of the body including the liver, heart, skeleton, eyes and kidneys. Common symptoms, which often develop during the first three months of life, include ...

Summary: According to the WHO, pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, linked to existing or potential tissue damage, or described in terms suggestive of such damage. It is a legal obligation to evaluate and take care of it (law of 03/04/2022). However, there are still areas where this is not addressed, particularly in cirrhotic patients (Piano V et al. 2023). The global prevalence of cirrh...

Summary: Patients with early pancreatic cancer often have symptoms that could also be caused by many common benign conditions, or no symptoms at all. Jaundice, weight loss and pain are 'red flag' symptoms of pancreatic cancer that are linked to incurable disease. At the moment only patients with 'red flag' symptoms are urgently referred for diagnostic testing to find out if they have the cancer. As a resul...

Summary: Obstructive jaundice is observed in 10-80 % of gallstone disease cases. The conventional tactics for the management of patients with obstructive jaundice is to remove biliary hypertension by using endoscopic or minimally invasive methods. The final surgical treatment is performed after jaundice reduction and normalization of hepatic functions. We suppose that the administration of the drug Remaxol...

Summary: The proposed study will incorporate an intervention previously un-studied in the US healthcare setting for prevention of hyperbilirubinemia

Summary: The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to compare uncovered, partially covered, and fully covered self-expandable metal stents (SEMS) in the palliative treatment of distal malignant biliary obstruction in a Swedish multicenter study. The main questions it aims to answer is: Is the stent patency rate different depending of stent type? Is the stent patency time different depending of stent ...

Summary: The use of an endoprothesis in a pancreatic duct is a measure to minimize the incidence and severity of Post-Endoscopic Retrograde CholoangioPancreatography Pancreatitis. In this study we will evaluate the use of a Biodegradable Endoprothesis: Archimede Fast Biodegradable Pancreatic Stent in patients with high risk of Post-Endoscopic Retrograde CholoangioPancreatography Pancreatitis.The ARCHIMEDES...

Summary: After the disappointing results of first-generation reverse bevel fine-needle biopsy (FNB) needles, newer 'third generation' endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) needles were developed, known as the end-cutting needles. These needle types have shown excellent diagnostic accuracy (\>90%) in pancreatic masses and several other lesions, even without rapid on site evaluation (ROSE) and are not associated wi...

Summary: This is a validation study involving the Bilistick System 2.0 point-of-care bilirubin measuring device. The validation will be conducted by comparing bilirubin measurements utilizing the standard-of-care blood sample collected for both a diagnostic reference device and Bilistick System 2.0 point-of-care device. Whole blood samples collected from male or female newborns (\<2-weeks of age) born at a...

Summary: A cross-sectional conductive study at the University of Chicago Medicine facilities (hospital and outreach clinics) to enable high qualitative estimation of bilirubin levels in the blood of newborns, independent of skin color, using Picterus JP.

Summary: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of Vimala massage versus hydrotherapy on the clinical outcomes of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.

Summary: In this study, a single non-invasive tool, spleen stiffness measurement (SSM), was used to monitor the disease regression of inpatients with chronic liver disease (CLD) and acute liver injury. The present study aimed to establish an early diagnosis warning model for acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) by SSM and investigate the effect of dynamic changes in SSM on the short-term prognosis (28-day...