Tabbal, Mahmoud Alkhalifa, Abdullah Mahmoud AlQattan, Abdullah Saleh AlJawad, Mohammed Tawfeeq, Mansour Ahmed Al Qahtani, Mohammed Saad
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BackgroundApproximately 50% of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) develop metastases most commonly in the liver. Liver transplantation (LT) can be used in certain cases of primary liver malignancy or in metastatic diseases, such as Neuroendocrine tumors. However, there are controversies regarding LT as a treatment option for liver metastasis fro...
Venugopal, Abhirami Gillick-Walker, Jessie Michalczyk, Agnes Khasraw, Mustafa Ackland, M. Leigh
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BackgroundNeuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are a complex group of tumours that occur in many organs. Routinely used IHC markers for NEN diagnosis include CgA, synaptophysin, Ki67 and CD56. These have limitations including lack of correlation to clinical outcomes and their presence in non-tumour tissue. Identification of additional markers and more q...
Palacio, Flávia Gonçalves Musauer de Souza, Lucila Marieta Perrotta Moreira, Jéssica Pronestino de Lima Luiz, Ronir Raggio de Souza, Heitor Siffert Pereira Zaltman, Cyrla
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BackgroundThe prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is increasing globally, and the disease is frequently managed surgically. The aim of this study was to investigate the time trends and geographic distribution of IBD hospitalizations, surgeries and surgical-associated lethality.MethodsData from the Brazilian Health Public System were retr...
Ding, Rongrong Zhou, Xinlan Huang, Dan Wang, Yanbing Li, Xiufen Yan, Li Lu, Wei Yang, Zongguo Zhang, Zhanqing
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BackgroundWe aimed to formulate a novel predictive nomogram to discriminate liver fibrosis stage in patients with chronic liver disease.MethodsNomograms were established based on the results of multivariate analysis. The predictive accuracy of the nomograms was assessed by ROC analysis and calibration. Decision curve analysis (DCA) was used to dete...
Lv, Zhijie Zhang, Xiaoqi Wu, Li
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BackgroundInfliximab-induced seizures in patients with Crohn’s disease are extremely rare and the mechanism of infliximab-induced seizures is unclear.Case presentationA 60-year-old woman with Crohn’s disease experienced infliximab-induced seizures, diagnosed on normal magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. Moreover, the rechallenge with inflixima...
Fujiyama, Shunichiro Akuta, Norio Sezaki, Hitomi Kobayashi, Mariko Kawamura, Yusuke Hosaka, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Masahiro Saitoh, Satoshi Suzuki, Fumitaka Suzuki, Yoshiyuki
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BackgroundHepatitis C virus is the leading cause of liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in Japan. We aimed to examine the long-term (> 20 years) mortality and hepatocellular carcinoma rates and associated risk factors in 1412 Japanese patients with decompensated hepatitis C virus-related cirrhosis (Child–Pugh B or C).MethodsCumulative surv...
Dou, Dou Li, Xiao-kou Xia, Qi-sheng Chen, Ying-ying Li, Yuan-liang Wang, Chao Qi, Zhi-rong Tan, Huang-ying
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BackgroundCurrently, there are no circulating diagnostic biomarkers for gastric neuroendocrine neoplasms (g-NENs). In previous studies, we found that miRNA-202-3p is overexpressed in the tumour tissue of type 1 g-NEN. We speculated that miRNA-202-3p is also likely to be highly expressed in circulating blood.MethodsA total of 27 patients with type 1...
Sierra-Arango, Fernando Vergara-Cabra, Cathalina Vásquez-Roldan, Mariana Pérez-Riveros, Erika D.
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BackgroundThe SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a considerable public health problem, which has caused a burden on health systems in many countries. Despite the existence of multiple studies on the different digestive symptoms and their relationship with this disease, it is still vital to highlight the severity of the different symptoms, the need to diagnose ...
Diez, Sonja Müller, Hanna Weiss, Christel Schellerer, Vera Besendörfer, Manuel
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BackgroundIn contrast to adults, for whom guidelines on the cholelithiasis treatment exist, there is no consistent treatment of pediatric patients with cholelithiasis throughout national and international departments, most probably due to the lack of evidence-based studies.MethodsWe evaluated the German management of pediatric cholelithiasis in a d...
Wang, Qiang Charmchi, Zeinab George, Ilena C.
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BackgroundWe present a case of a woman with a past medical history of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and anxiety, who presents with ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and memory loss, characteristic of Wernicke encephalopathy.Case presentationA 64-year-old woman presented with double vision, unsteady gait and memory loss. These symptoms began after 3 months o...
