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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 Index – an attempt to objectify the assessment of ascites
Journal of Ultrasonography, 2018 Introduction: Ascites is observed in cancer patients as well as in other non-neoplastic processes. In some patients, it may cause severe symptoms that can become directly life-threatening.
Piotr Szkodziak +6 more
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Reinfusion of ascites during hemodialysis as a treatment of massive refractory ascites and acute renal failure [PDF]
International Journal of Nephrology and Renovascular Disease, 2011 Ta-Wei Hsu1, Yi-Chuan Chen2, Meei-Ju Wu2, Anna Fen-Yau Li3, Wu-Chang Yang2, Yee-Yung Ng21Department of Medicine, I-Lan Hospital, 2Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, 3Department of Pathology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, School of ...
Ta-Wei Hsu +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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Diagnostic Value of Ascitic Tumor Markers for Gastric Cancer-associated Malignant Ascites [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Helicobacter and Upper Gastrointestinal Research, 2022 Background/Aims Peritoneal carcinomatosis with malignant ascites is common in patients with advanced gastric cancer (GC). The detection of tumor cells is the gold standard for the diagnosis of malignant ascites; however, it often requires complementary ...
Yaewon Yang +14 more
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Alternative management of intractable chylous ascites following robot-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy of Viscum album sclerotherapy: a case report [PDF]
Korean Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2022 A patient showed signs of fever and Hemovac insertion site discharge 8 days after surgery and was admitted. Abdominal paracentesis found milky ascites with triglyceride levels of the peritoneal fluid as high as 1,603 g/mL.
Beom Soo Kim +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Ascites is sometimes detected after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT); however, since limited information is currently available, its clinical meaning remains unclear.
Hiroyuki Kubo +9 more
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AI-assisted ascites volumetry for prognostic stratification in HCC treated with Atezolizumab/Bevacizumab. [PDF]
Cancer ImagingPurpose Portal hypertension-related parameters are known to have important prognostic implications in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ascites has consistently been associated with impaired outcomes.
Moos M +12 more
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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.
Fortune, Brett, Cardenas, Andres
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 Ascites is one of the most common complications of cirrhosis, and there is a dearth of knowledge about ascites-related pathologic metabolism. In this study, 122 alcoholic liver disease (ALD) patients, including 49 cases without ascites, 18 cases with ...
Cheng Cheng +14 more
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