Bruno Pauletti

• University of Padua

Pancreatitis is a major public health issue worldwide. There is geographical variation in the burden of acute and chronic pancreatitis (CP). Globally, the age-standardized prevalence rate increased from 1990 to 2017. Acute pancreatitis (AP) is now one of the most common reasons for hospitalization with a gastrointestinal condition. The essential re...

Objective: The aim of our study is to verify the prognostic role of Computed Tomography (CT) in early (2 days after symptoms onset) and delayed (>7 days) phase of moderately severe and severe acute pancreatitis (AP) based on revised Atlanta 2012 classification (RAC) in a tertiary care Italian Hospital. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 1412 pati...

Acute pancreatitis has a broad clinical spectrum: from mild, self-limited disease to fulminant illness resulting in multi-organ failure leading to a prolonged clinical course with up to 30% mortality in case of infected necrosis. Management of local complications such as pseudocysts and walled-off necrosis may vary from clinical observation to inte...

Several studies attempted to determine whether there is a relationship between the use of preoperative biliary drainage and morbidity after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). We retrospectively evaluated post-PD outcome in patients with and without preoperative biliary drainage and the role of bacteriobilia and antibiotic prophylaxis in post-operative c...

Aim Several studies demonstrated the prognostic value of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and platelet-to-white blood cells ratio (PWR) in different types of tumors. However, there is no information about a possible role of NLR, PLR and PWR as predictor of presence of metastasis or multifocal disease in patient...

Alessandra Greco,1 Sabrina Rossi,2 Cesare Ruffolo,1 Bruno Pauletti,3 Angelo Paolo Dei Tos,2 Giovanni Morana,4 Marco Massani3 1IV Department of Surgery, Regional Hospital Treviso, Treviso, Italy; 2Pathology Department, University of Padova and Regional Hospital, Treviso, Italy; 3III Department of Surgery, Regional Hospital Treviso, Treviso, Italy; 4...

Objective: The aim of this section is to assess the evolution in the management of liver injuries during the last two decades. Methods: The authors reviewed the English literature, reporting the wider experiences, and on the basis of the personal experience, they suggest an up to date treatment. Results: Mortality due to hepatic injury has decrease...

Marco Massani,1 Paola Maccatrozzo,1 Giovanni Morana,2 Luca Fabris,3 Cesare Ruffolo,1 Luca Bonariol,1 Bruno Pauletti,1 Nicolò Bassi1 1IV Department of Surgery, Regional Center for HPB Surgery, 2Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Regional Hospital of Treviso, Treviso, 3Molecular Medicine Department, University Hospital, Padua, Italy Introductio...

Most patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IH-CCA) are unresectable and treatment options are limited. This study evaluates the efficacy of hepatic artery infusion (HAI) chemotherapy in patients whose disease is not initially treatable with resection. We selected patients with unresectable IH-CCA treated only with HAI chemotherapy at our c...

Perivascular epithelioid cell tumours (PEComa) are described as "mesenchymal tumours composed of histologically and immunohistochemically distinctive perivascular epitheliod cells". It appears that PEComas may arise at any anatomical location. Angiomyolipoma is the most common pathological type, with the uterus and the kidney the most common sites....

The aim of this chapter is to define diagnosis and treatment of benign lesions of the bile ducts and the gallbladder. Benign tumors of the bile ducts are uncommon clinical entities, and therefore, most published papers describe only case reports. Nevertheless, these entities, together with pseudotumors, should be considered in the differential diag...