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Controversies in the management of primary sclerosing cholangitis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) remains a rare but significant disease, which affects mainly young males in association with inflammatory bowel disease.
Devlin, J   +4 more
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Pharmacological interventions for primary sclerosing cholangitis: an attempted network meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BACKGROUND: Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a chronic cholestatic liver disease that is associated with both hepatobiliary and colorectal malignancies, which can result in liver cirrhosis and its complications. The optimal pharmacological treatment for
Davidson, Brian R   +6 more
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis

open access: yesMedicine, 1984
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, cholestatic liver disease caused by diffuse inflammation and fibrosis that can involve the entire biliary tree. The progressive pathological process obliterates intrahepatic and extrahepatic bile ducts, leading ultimately to biliary cirrhosis, portal hypertension and hepatic failure.
openaire   +6 more sources

Association Between Distance to the Transplant Center and Survival Following Living Donor Liver Transplantation

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study investigated the impacts of distance to transplant center on posttransplant survival following LDLT. Patients living further away from the transplant center had worse graft and patient survival rates than those of patients living closer, probably due to less frequency of follow‐up visits, and living > 40 miles from our treatment center was ...
Hajime Matsushima   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cholangiocarcinoma in sclerosing cholangitis. The role of liver transplantation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Our experience with patients who underwent orthotopic liver transplantation for sclerosing cholangitis at the University of Pittsburgh Health Center between March 1980 and March 1988 is reported here.
Iwatsuki, S   +3 more
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Primary sclerosing cholangitis: a pre-malignant condition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a chronic, progressive, cholestatic liver disease with no known cure. It is a serious condition, and diagnosis comes with an increased risk of developing cancer of the gallbladder, bile ducts or liver. Symptoms can
Mortimore, Gerri
core   +2 more sources

Oral vancomycin solution is superior to capsule in inducing clinical biomarker and endoscopic remission in children with atypical ulcerative colitis

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims Atypical colitis (presenting reverse gradient colitis, backwash ileitis or rectal sparing) is associated with primary sclerosing cholangitis–ulcerative colitis (PSC). Oral vancomycin has been used to manage paediatric atypical colitis with/without confirmed PSC. Different preparations had shown different efficacy.
Laura Räisänen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of hepatic transplantation in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Controlled trials to assess the therapeutic benefit of orthotopic hepatic transplantation (OHTx) for primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) cannot be justified in view of improvement of patient survival after this operation since 1981.
Abu-Elmagd, KM   +9 more
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Role of the Microbiota and Antibiotics in Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is an idiopathic, progressive, cholestatic liver disease with considerable morbidity and mortality and no established pharmacotherapy.
James H. Tabibian   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Survival after liver transplantation in the United Kingdom and Ireland compared with the United States

open access: yes, 2007
<b>Background and Aim</b>: Surgical mortality in the US is widely perceived to be superior to that in the UK. However, previous comparisons of surgical outcome in the two countries have often failed to take sufficient account of case-mix or ...
Copley, L.P.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

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