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Mar 28th, 2023 - The potential function of lncRNAs in human hepatic ischemia reperfusion injury (HIRI) remains to be clarified. Clinical samples of transplanted liver tissues from 26 patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT) and normal liver tissues from 7 pa...

Mar 27th, 2023 - Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a rare disease that causes serious cardiovascular problems and may be fatal even at an early age. Because this disease variant is rather aggressive, the effect of lipid-lowering agents and lipid aph...

Mar 27th, 2023 - There is a lack of studies focusing on the benefit of liver transplantation (LT) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with > 3 tumors. This study aims to establish a model to effectively predict overall survival in Chinese HCC patients with ...

Mar 26th, 2023 - Reply: we still need to deal with antibody-mediated rejection in living donor liver transplantation.|2023|Tajima T,Hata K,Kusakabe J,Hatano E,|

Mar 26th, 2023 - Extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) is increasingly applied for bilirubin removal in critical care setting. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical features of children aged 1 month to 18 years old who received EBP for hyperbilirubinemia and ...

Jan 16th, 2023 - The acute hepatic porphyrias (AHP) are rare, inborn errors of heme-metabolism and include acute intermittent porphyria, hereditary coproporphyria, variegate porphyria, and porphyria due to severe deficiency of 5-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase. Ac...

Sep 9th, 2022 - The purpose of this American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute Clinical Practice Update is to review the available published evidence and expert advice regarding the clinical management of patients with suspected acute kidney injury ...

Aug 1st, 2021 - The field of liver transplantation directly or indirectly embodies all liver diseases, in addition to specific ones related to organ rejection (cellular and humoral). The recommended non-invasive methods for determining the indication for liver tr...

May 29th, 2021 - Donation after circulatory death (DCD) grafts are commonly used in liver transplantation. Attributable to the additional ischemic event during the donor warm ischemia time (DWIT), DCD grafts carry an increased risk for severe ischemia/reperfusion ...

May 10th, 2021 - Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) is a multimodal, evidence-based, program of care developed to minimize the response to surgical stress, associated with reduced perioperative morbidity and hospital stay. This study presents the specific ERAS...

Mar 14th, 2023 - Hepatitis B virus chronically infects 350 million people worldwide and over one million Americans and approximately 4.1 million individuals (1.6%) in the US population have been infected with hepatitis C. These infections are the leading cause of ...

Mar 10th, 2023 - The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of increased transfusion requirements on the prognosis of patients undergoing LT and the risk factors for HTR. HTR is defined as the consumption of packed red blood cells (GRC) ≥ 5 units in the fi...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Central venous pressure (CVP) measured invasively through a central venous catheter in the internal jugular vein or through a right atrial port of a pulmonary artery catheter is commonly used during liver transplant surgery. CVP measurements at th...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Globally, the mortality after any infection in cirrhosis patients is very high. The cumulative mortality in patients with infections was 43.5% (11,987 patients) where as the mortality rate without infection was 13.6% (2317 patients). Over the year...

Mar 9th, 2023 - Diagnosis: The diagnosis of Alcoholic hepatitis is made by the following criteria (12) I. Chronic active alcohol abuse - >80 grams in males and > 60 grams in females for > 5 years for developing Alcoholic Cirrhosis (13) Alcohol use will be evaluat...

Jan 17th, 2023 - Monitoring Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) levels after liver transplantation to avoid over-immunosuppression showed a signal for less post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease (PTLD) over the long term in an observational study. Standardized incidence...

Nov 17th, 2022 - WASHINGTON, DC — For patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) undergoing modest-volume paracentesis for ascites, oral midodrine may be an alternative to intravenous albumin for preventing paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction (PI...

Nov 16th, 2022 - For asymptomatic patients diagnosed with early-stage transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM), it can take just a few years to progress to clinical heart failure or other cardiovascular complications, according to a longitudinal cohort study...

Nov 12th, 2022 - Living donor liver transplants (LDLT) for recipients with the most urgent need for a liver transplant in the next 3 months – a model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score of 25 or higher – have become more frequent during the past decade, accor...

Nov 10th, 2022 - Living donor liver transplants (LDLT) for recipients with the most urgent need for a liver transplant in the next 3 months – a model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score of 25 or higher – have become more frequent during the past decade, accor.