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catheter — 1. A tubular instrument to allow passage of fluid from or into a body cavity or blood vessel. SEE ALSO: line (4). 2. Especially a c. designed to be passed through the urethra into the bladder to drain it of retained … Medical dictionary
percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage — a treatment for extrahepatic cholestasis consisting of drainage through a catheter introduced through the liver and into the biliary tree under radiologic guidance. Called also percutaneous transhepatic cholangiodrainage … Medical dictionary
Interventional radiology — (abbreviated IR or sometimes VIR for vascular and interventional radiology) is a subspecialty of radiology in which minimally invasive procedures are performed using image guidance. Some of these procedures are done for purely diagnostic purposes … Wikipedia
Cholecystitis — Classification and external resources Micrograph of a gallbladder with cholecystitis and cholesterolosis. ICD 10 … Wikipedia
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Stent — For people named Stent, see Stent (surname). Stent Intervention MeSH D015607 In the technical vocabulary of medicine, a stent is an artificial tube inserted into a natural passage/conduit in the … Wikipedia
Bile bear — A bile bear or battery bear is the term used for Asiatic black bears kept in captivity in Vietnam and China so that bile may be extracted from them for sale as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). [… … Wikipedia
Sepsis — Infobox Disease Name = Sepsis Caption = DiseasesDB = 11960 ICD10 = ICD10|A|40| |a|30 ICD10|A|41|0|a|30 ICD9 = ICD9|995.91 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = 000666 eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = MeshID = D018805 Sepsis is a serious medical condition… … Wikipedia
Non-heart-beating donation — Prior to the introduction of brain stem death into law in the mid to late 1970s, all organ transplants from cadaveric donors came from non heart beating donors (NHBD).[citation needed] Brain stem dead donors (beating heart cadavers), however, led … Wikipedia
Renan Uflacker — (born 1949) is an American physician. Currently he is Professor and Director of Interventional Radiology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in Charleston, South Carolina.Education and careerSince 1977, Uflacker has practiced… … Wikipedia
