Wicaksono, Krishna Pandu Matondang, Sahat Silman, Christopher Prihartono, Joedo Lesmana, Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya
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Case Reports in Gastroenterology
Bleeding esophageal varices (EV) have the highest mortality rate from all complications of liver cirrhosis (LC). Several Doppler ultrasound (DUS) studies have been done on the splenic or portal vein (PV) to evaluate the hemodynamic of the esophageal vein. Our study focused on finding a better index using the ratio from two parameters correlated wit...
Yang, Lanlan Liu, Siqi Zhang, Qian Jia, Shengnan Qiu, Chen Jin, Zhenjing
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International immunopharmacology
Interleukin (IL) -35 induces immunotolerance by suppression of CD8+ T cells during chronic infections and cancers. In the present study, we amined to investigate the role of IL-35-mediated regulation of CD8+ T cells in patients with liver cirrhosis. Seventy-one patients with liver cirrhosis (46 patients with untainted ascites and 25 patients with s...
Hong, Seokjin Kim, Ji Eun Cho, Jae Min Choi, Ho Cheol Won, Jung Ho Na, Jae Beom Choi, Dae Seob Park, Mi Jung Choi, Hye Young Shin, Hwa Seon
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European journal of radiology
To determine the performance of quantification of liver extracellular volume fraction (fECV) using dual-energy CT (DECT) compared with CT imaging for ruling out high-riskesophageal varices(HRV) in cirrhotic patients. We retrospectively analyzed 229 cirrhotic patients (training [n = 159] and internal validation cohorts [n = 70]) who underwent dual-s...
Riveiro-Barciela, Mar Pericàs, Juan M Buti, Maria
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Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a global public health issue with several unsolved clinical challenges. As multiple new drugs are under development, HBV markers are gaining importance for both diagnostic and prognostic purposes. This review summarizes the most important data on the usefulness of HBV markers in the natural history of this infec...
Figueiredo, Luísa Martins Rafael, Maria Ana Alexandrino, Gonçalo Branco, Joana C Carvalho, Rita Costa, Mariana Nuno Martins, Alexandra
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Gastroenterologia y hepatologia
Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are a reality that can alter the paradigm of treatment and prevention of infection in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC). Identify risk factors for the occurrence of MDROs in patients with LC. Prospective study from October 2017 to March 2018 in consecutively hospitalized patients with decompensated LC with inf...
Abbasy, Mohamed Zaghla, Hassan Elhelbawy, Mostafa Ramadan, Mostafa Zakareya, Talaat
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Egyptian Liver Journal
BackgroundHepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a serious condition associated with high rates of mortality. Many scoring systems are used to predict the outcome of HE in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The most used scores are Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP), Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD), Chronic Liver Failure-Sequential Organ F...
Kim, Tae Gyu Park, Byungdo Song, Yun Gyu Lee, Hyoun Wook Oh, Tae Hee Ryu, Dong-Soo Jeong, Seung Chan Cho, Daehyeon Oh, Jieun Kim, Kwang Min
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Radiation Oncology
BackgroundSeveral studies have reported patient-related risk factors for late rectal bleeding following conventionally fractionated radiotherapy for prostate cancer. We investigated patient-related risk factors for late rectal bleeding after hypofractionated radiotherapy.MethodsA total of 231 patients with local or locally advanced prostate cancer ...
Thanapongsatorn, Peerapat Chaijamorn, Weerachai Sirivongrangson, Phatadon Tachaboon, Sasipha Peerapornratana, Sadudee Lumlertgul, Nuttha Lucksiri, Aroonrut Srisawat, Nattachai
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Scientific Reports
Citrate has been proposed as anticoagulation of choice in continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). However, little is known about the pharmacokinetics (PK) and metabolism of citrate in liver failure patients who require CRRT with regional citrate anticoagulation (RCA). This prospective clinical PK study was conducted at King Chulalongkorn Memor...
Kim, Sung-Eun Kim, Dong Joon
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Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle
Han, Xu Wang, Juan Gu, Hao Liao, Xing Jiang, Miao
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Medicine
Background: Previous studies have indicated that the changes of bile acids are associated with liver cirrhosis. The objective of our study is to perform a systematic review to explore the relationship between bile acids and the pathologic process of cirrhosis, and to find minimally invasive, accurate and reliable potential biomarkers for predicting...
