INTRODUCTIONBile leak is a serious complication of hepatobiliary surgery. The incidence has remained the same over the last decade despite significant improvement in the results of liver surgery.PRESENTATION OF CASEA 21-year-old man was a passenger in a motor vehicle and sustained a blunt abdominal trauma in a high-speed collision leading to major liver laceration. He had right lobe hepatectomy complicated by major bile leak. He was not fit for further surgery and he, therefore, had ERCP and obliteration of the leaking bile duct using a combination of metallic coil and N-butyl cyanoacrylate.DISCUSSIONEndoscopic therapy has become the modality of choice in the treatment of biliary tract injuries. Different modalities of management of persistent bile leak such as sphincterotomy, plastic biliary stents, and nasobiliary drainage have been described. Obliteration of bile duct leak using N-butyl cyanoacrylate and coil embolization has been described but most of these reports used the percutaneous transhepatic approach.CONCLUSIONIn this paper, we describe the second reported case in English literature of a novel endoscopic technique using a combination of metallic coil embolization and N-butyl cyanoacrylate in a patient with major bile leak who was not a candidate for surgery as well as a third report of the late complication of coil migration to the common bile duct.
COVID-19 is the most important matter in the medical field worldwide in 2020. Although COVID-19 is a viral disease, the threshold to antibiotic prescription for COVID-19 patients is low, partly because of WHO recommendations and previous experiences from influenza, despite the lack of strong evidence of co-infection or superimposed bacterial infection in COVID-19 patients. Antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) could play an important role in this period, otherwise, we will face a crisis of superbugs in the early future. Keywords: COVID-19, Antibiotic stewardship program (ASP), Superbugs
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