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Background: The purpose of this article was to clarify the optimal management concerning transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPSs) and surgical shunting in treating portal hypertension.
Long Huang+4 more
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Title: S. mansoni trapping in lungs contributes to resistance to reinfection
Paul and Pammi's combined research career of 60 plus years focused on preventive vaccine against schistosomiasis. Worm migration studies in rats using 75SE-methionine labeled cercariae and analyzed by autoradiography demonstrated that resistance to ...
Parmjeet Behl Suri, Paul Mark Knopf
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Therapeutic Portacaval Anastomosis: To Shunt or Not to Shunt
The final report of the Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group (BILG) study of therapeutic portacaval shunts in this issue of Gastroenterology1 is another giant step for medicine in determining the rightful role of portacaval anastomosis. It is also an appropriate opportunity for an editorial admirer of BILG to praise its work and to try to put it into ...
Harold O. Conn, Harold O. Conn
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Development of Ectopic Livers by Hepatocyte Transplantation Into Swine Lymph Nodes
Orthotopic liver transplantation continues to be the only effective therapy for patients with end‐stage liver disease. Unfortunately, many of these patients are not considered transplant candidates, lacking effective therapeutic options that would address both the irreversible progression of their hepatic failure and the control of their portal ...
Paulo Fontes+4 more
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Techniques for Management of Portal Vein Thrombosis during Liver Transplantation
Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) poses a unique challenge in liver transplant. The management of PVT differs according to the extent of thrombosis. Anastomosis of a donor portal vein to a varix is a viable option when an adequate size varix is identified on preoperative imaging or intraoperatively.
Navdeep Singh+4 more
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PORTACAVAL SHUNT AND LIPID SYNTHESIS [PDF]
A 12 y.o. girl with homozygous type II hyperlipoproteinemia has had marked improvement following portacaval (PC) shunt (Lancet, ii:944, 1973). In an attempt to explain the reduction in serum cholesterol (chol) levels, 7 dogs were given end-to-side PC anastamoses and 3 had sham operations.
Chase, HP, Starzl, TE
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Further steps of hepatic stimulatory substance purification [PDF]
The hepatic stimulatory substance (HSS) extracted from weanling rat livers was purified 381,000-fold using chromatographic techniques including nondissociating polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (nondenaturing PAGE).
Barone, M+5 more
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The incidence of portal vein thrombosis at liver transplantation [PDF]
The incidence of portal vein thrombosis was examined in 885 patients who received orthotopic liver transplantations for various end‐stage liver diseases between 1989 and 1990. The thrombosis was classified into four grades.
Iwatsuki, S+3 more
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The effect of intrasplenic hepatocyte transplantation (HTX) was studied in an experimental model of acute liver failure in rats with chronic liver atrophy.
Birgit A.P.M. Vogels+3 more
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Effect on the canine Eck fistula liver of intraportal TGF‐β alone or with hepatic growth factors [PDF]
Transforming growth factor‐β canceled the hepatocyte proliferation caused by transforming growth factor‐α when the two substances were mixed and administered through a disconnected central portal vein branch after creation of an Eck fistula. In contrast,
Alessandro Azzarone+28 more
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