Yasuni Nakanuma
Yasuni Nakanuma
The biliary tree consists of intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts and is lined by biliary epithelial cells (or cholangiocytes). There are also peribiliary glands around the intrahepatic large bile ducts and extrahepatic bile ducts. The ...
IgG4 Cholangiopathy [0.03%]
IgG4相关性胆管炎
Yoh Zen,Yasuni Nakanuma
Yoh Zen
IgG4 cholangiopathy can involve any level of the biliary tree which exhibits sclerosing cholangitis or pseudotumorous hilar lesions. Most cases are associated with autoimmune pancreatitis, an important diagnostic clue. Without autoimmune pa...
Novel approach to bile duct damage in primary biliary cirrhosis: participation of cellular senescence and autophagy [0.03%]
胆汁淤积新见解：细胞衰老和自噬在原发性胆汁性肝硬化的参与作用
Motoko Sasaki,Yasuni Nakanuma
Motoko Sasaki
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is characterized by antimitochondrial autoantibodies (AMAs) in patients' sera and histologically by chronic nonsuppurative destructive cholangitis in small bile ducts, eventually followed by extensive bile du...
Pathological features of new animal models for primary biliary cirrhosis [0.03%]
新类原发性胆汁性肝硬化的动物模型的病理特征
Koichi Tsuneyama,Yuki Moritoki,Kentaro Kikuchi et al.
Koichi Tsuneyama et al.
Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is an autoimmune liver disease characterized by immune mediated biliary damage and frequent appearance of autoantibodies against mitochondrial enzymes. There is almost no useful animal model that is globally ...
Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization of hepatocellular carcinoma as a bridge to liver transplantation: a retrospective study [0.03%]
肝移植前肝细胞癌经导管动脉化疗栓塞治疗的桥梁作用：回顾性研究
Antoine Bouchard-Fortier,Réal Lapointe,Pierre Perreault et al.
Antoine Bouchard-Fortier et al.
Background. Transcatheter arterial lipiodol chemoembolization (TACE) can be used in cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma to avoid tumor progression before transplantation. Objective. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of TACE u...
Clinicopathological features and treatment of ectopic varices with portal hypertension [0.03%]
门脉高压性异位静脉曲张的临床病理特征及治疗
Takahiro Sato,Jun Akaike,Jouji Toyota et al.
Takahiro Sato et al.
Bleeding from ectopic varices, which is rare in patients with portal hypertension, is generally massive and life-threatening. Forty-three patients were hospitalized in our ward for gastrointestinal bleeding from ectopic varices. The frequen...
Correlation of Chimerism with Acute Graft-versus-Host Disease in Rats following Liver Transplantation [0.03%]
肝移植后小鼠的嵌合体与急性移植物抗宿主病的相关性研究
Fei Xue,Wei Chen,Xue-Li Bai et al.
Fei Xue et al.
The accurate diagnosis of acute graft-versus-host disease following liver transplantation (LTx-aGVHD) has been hampered. Chimerism appears in the majority of recipients after LT and its significance in the diagnosis of LTx-aGVHD has not bee...
Haris Papafragkakis,Martin Moehlen,Monica T Garcia-Buitrago et al.
Haris Papafragkakis et al.
Hemangiomas are the most common benign tumors found in the liver, typically asymptomatic, solitary, and incidentally discovered. Although vascular in nature, they rarely bleed. We report a case of a 52-year-old woman with a previously stabl...
Richard Guan,Hock Foong Lui
Richard Guan
Chronic hepatitis B infection progresses from an asymptomatic persistently infected state to chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, decompensated liver disease, and/or hepatocellular carcinoma. About 3% of patients with chronic hepatitis develop cir...
Application of endoscopy in improving survival of cirrhotic patients with acute variceal hemorrhage [0.03%]
内镜在提高急性静脉曲张出血肝硬化患者生存率中的应用
Yao-Chun Hsu,Chen-Shuan Chung,Hsiu-Po Wang
Yao-Chun Hsu
Playing a central role in the modern multidisciplinary management of acute gastroesophageal variceal hemorrhage, endoscopy is essential to stratify patient at risk, control active hemorrhage, and prevent first as well as recurrent bleeding....