Sang Hyub Lee

BACKGROUND: Around 15% of acute pancreatitis patients develop necrosis of the pancreatic/peri-pancreatic tissue resulting in necrotic debris surrounded by a wall of granulation tissue called “walled-off pancreas necrosis” (WON)…

BACKGROUND: The management of acute cholangitis often relies on the efficacy of selected antibiotic therapy, traditionally informed by both blood and bile culture findings. This study explores the hypothesis that antibiotic therapy guided exclusively by blood culture results would be sufficient…

BACKGROUND/AIM: The objective of this study is to assess the long-term efficacy of ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) in preventing gallstone formation after gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer…

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) is one of the well-known precancerous lesions. Predicting the malignant risk of IPMN is important but challenging…