[PDF] Top 20 Sirolimus may be associated with early recurrence of biliary obstruction in liver transplant patients undergoing endoscopic stenting of biliary strictures

... this may have precluded certain varia- bles from reaching statistical ...significance. In addi- tion, it limited our ability to perform multivariate analysis for NABS, which may respond differently ... See full document

... 943 patients receiving non-living donor OLT at our institution from 2005-2012 were reviewed, and 123 OLT ABS patients receiving stent therapy were ...Features of their endoscopic stent therapy ... See full document

... on sirolimus, some but not all demo- graphic, surgical, and endoscopic variables were ...protocol in existence during the study period, thus some aspects of endoscopic treat- ment ... See full document

... presence of gastric varices were relative exclusion ...devascularization with splenectomy followed by ...months. Endoscopic comparison of the size of esophageal varices before and after ... See full document

... mechanisms of action of nuclear receptors at the liver and the small ...can be secreted back to the intestinal lumen by ...the liver after triglyceride uptake in peripheral ... See full document

... point of reference in our clinical ...permanence in the mouth has prompted each dental discipline to find ways to establish ...procedures of other disciplines and usually is the one that ... See full document

... use in HCV+ patients is controversial because liver toxicity is one of the main adverse effects occurring in patients receiving this drug ...Moreover, liver toxicity ... See full document

... differences in the serum LSA concentrations between liver diseases of diffe- rent etiologies (ANOVA rank Kruskal-Wallis test: H = ...concentration in cancer group (HCC), cancer and cirrhosis ... See full document

... SUMMARY. Liver transplantation (LT) for end-stage liver disease secondary to hepatitis viruses has evolved rapidly during the last two ...improvements in immunosuppressive thera- py and surgical ... See full document

... ter biliary obstruction and continued for a further four ...The liver was used for histological and ultra- structural analysis and for collagen quantification (hy- droxyproline ...degradation ... See full document

... classification of cirrhosis, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores, presence of major events (bleeding inclusive of esophageal varices or gastric varices, ascites, HCC, extrahepatic ... See full document

... model of bimodal recurrence relies on the concept of tumor dormancy and metastatic homeostasis being perturbed by tumor removal ...seed in a different, distant tissue where they remain dormant ... See full document

... incidence of alcoholic liver disease are constantly ...Alcoholic liver disease has a wide clinical spectrum. It may progress to cirrhosis and to end-stage liver disease requiring ... See full document

... Some patients may be asymptomatic and detected incidentally due to the increasingly liberal use of ...majority of pa- tients present with right upper quadrant or epigastric pain, ... See full document

... Carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic carotid stenosis (International Carotid Stenting. Study): an interim analysis of a r[r] ... See full document

... lipoprotein associated with cholestasis. It is a significant cause of seve- re hypercholesterolemia and should always be considered in patients with cholestatic ... See full document

... overexpression of MLN64 in cultured cells, by a system that does not use an adenovirus to overexpress the protein, directly results in increased apoptosis, we transiently transfected CHO-K1 cells and ... See full document

... Metastatic biliary obstruction can develop very fast, and biochemical signs of cholestasis can precede the di- agnosis by abdominal imaging, as illustrated by this ...increase in ALP and GGT ... See full document

... to biliary secretion of concentrated, BA-enriched bile into the duodenum which will flow down to the ile- um and the ...Most of the BAs will be actively reab- sorbed as conjugated BAs ... See full document

... impairment of flow through the ...the early post-LT period may lead to persistent biliary injury and inflammation resulting in compromised anasto- motic remodeling; these effects ... See full document