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Liver abscess requiring drainage is conventionally managed by interventional radiology-guided percutaneous drainage (PCD). Radiologically inaccessible abscesses are managed with laparoscopic or open surgery, which carries high rates of morbidity and mortality. EUS-guided transluminal liver abscess drainage is minimally invasive and can be an alternative approach for caudate lobe, segment 4, and left lateral segment abscesses. We report on three consecutive patients with radiologically inaccessible left lobe liver abscess involving the caudate lobe, segment 4, and lateral segment in whom EUS-guided transluminal drainage using a modified technique was successful.

Biliary communication in hepatic hydatid cyst is reported in 1–20% of patients. These patients present with fever (70–90%), right upper quadrant pain (80%), cholangitis (20–37%), acute pancreatitis (rare), liver abscess, and septicemia. Diagnosis of biliary rupture is on abdominal ultrasound, computerized tomography, and/or magnetic resonance imaging demonstration of hydatid membranes. We report a case of rupture hydatid cyst where diagnosis was on endosonographic findings and the patient had normal caliber common bile duct.

Biliary communication in hepatic hydatid cyst is reported in 1-20% of patients. These patients present with fever (70-90%), right upper quadrant pain (80%), cholangitis (20-37%), acute pancreatitis (rare), liver abscess, and septicemia. Diagnosis of biliary rupture is on abdominal ultrasound, computerized tomography, and/or magnetic resonance imaging demonstration of hydatid membranes. We report a case of rupture hydatid cyst where diagnosis was on endosonographic findings and the patient had normal caliber common bile duct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shortly after the fall of Indonesia's New Order government, the country's public radio network began limited broadcasts of a program intended to augment the midwifery skills of the biomedically trained 'skilled birthing attendants,' called bidan. This radio series was focused on educating rural health care providers in an efficient, modern way, reflecting the country's history of Jakarta-centered nation-building through didactic mass media. After what appeared to be relatively promising trials, the national Ministry of Health let the program languish and never brought it to full implementation. This article investigates the bidan radio series as a case study not only in public health education, but as a representation of the country's shifting narratives of nationalist modernity, and the role of mass media in reproducing them. We argue that the program depended on the medium itself as the locus of its message, and therewith national radio's historic discourse of unifying progress. Based on an ethnographic collaboration between medical and media anthropologists, this ethnohistoric research interrogates childbirth as a disputed field of cultural knowledge production, and an exemplar of broadcast media and biomedical nationalism's entangled trajectories. [Keywords: Birth attendant training, media, midwifery, global health, radio, Southeast Asia, Indonesia] [Palavras-chave: Formacao em partos, media, obstetricia, saude global, radio, Sudeste Asiatico, Indonesia], Introduction Why use a radio program to teach Indonesian biomedical midwives (bidan) how better to perform their duties? That was one of the first questions addressed on the premiere episode [...]