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The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology, 2018 Ascites is the most common cause of decompensation in cirrhosis, and 5% to 10% of patients with compensated cirrhosis develop ascites each year. The main factor of ascites formation is renal sodium retention due to activation of the renin-angiotensin ...
Soung Won Jeong
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Ascites, refractory ascites and hyponatremia in cirrhosis [PDF]
Gastroenterology Report, 2017 Ascites is the most common complication related to cirrhosis and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Ascites is a consequence of the loss of compensatory mechanisms to maintain the overall effective arterial blood volume due to worsening splanchnic arterial vasodilation as a result of clinically significant portal hypertension.
Brett E. Fortune, Andrés Cárdenas
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Nature Cancer, 2023 Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive gynecological tumor usually diagnosed with widespread metastases and ascites. Here, we depicted a single-cell landscape of the OC ecosystem with five tumor-relevant sites, including omentum metastasis and malignant ...
Xiaocui Zheng +12 more
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Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 2022 Background Despite unprecedented benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in patients with mismatch repair deficient (dMMR)/microsatellite instability high (MSI-H) advanced gastrointestinal cancers, a relevant proportion of patients shows primary
G. Fucà +30 more
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Theranostics, 2021 Rationale: Malignant ascites in peritoneal metastases is a lipid-enriched microenvironment and is frequently involved in the poor prognosis of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC).
Y. Xuan +8 more
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Cancers, 2021 Simple Summary Accumulation of excess fluid in the abdomen typically indicates abnormal function or disease, such as cancer, in the underlying tissues. This accumulation of fluid, or ascites, occurs more frequently in patients with advanced-stage ovarian
Brittany P. Rickard +13 more
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The untapped potential of ascites in ovarian cancer research and treatment
British Journal of Cancer, 2020 The build-up of fluid in the peritoneal cavity—ascites—is a hallmark of ovarian cancer, the most lethal of all gynaecological malignancies. This remarkable fluid, which contains a variety of cellular and acellular components, is known to contribute to ...
C. Ford +3 more
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Ascitic pseudouridine discriminates between hepatocarcinoma-derived ascites and cirrhotic ascites [PDF]
Clinical Chemistry, 1996 Abstract Various biochemical indexes discriminate neoplastic from nonneoplastic ascites. However, within the latter group, the distinction between cirrhotic ascites and ascites caused by hepatocarcinoma (HC) is usually based on liver biopsy or cytology.
CASTALDO, GIUSEPPE +6 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 We previously discovered that Xiaozhang Tie (XZT) was helpful for cirrhotic ascites, with obvious abdominal distention relief, suggesting that it may improve gastrointestinal (GI) motility.
Qiang Zhao +7 more
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Tumor-promoting macrophages prevail in malignant ascites of advanced gastric cancer
Experimental and Molecular Medicine, 2020 Gastric cancer (GC) patients develop malignant ascites as the disease progresses owing to peritoneal metastasis. GC patients with malignant ascites have a rapidly deteriorating clinical course with short survival following the onset of malignant ascites.
Hye Hyeon Eum +11 more
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