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Annals 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
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Splenectomy is associated with an aggressive tumor growth pattern and altered host immunity in an orthotopic syngeneic murine pancreatic cancer model. [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this study was to investigate whether splenectomy influences the tumor growth and metastatic pattern in an orthotopic syngeneic murine pancreatic cancer model.
Bouvet, Michael +7 more
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Risk of pneumonia among patients with splenectomy: a retrospective population-based cohort study
Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2017 BACKGROUND: People without a spleen are particularly susceptible to various overwhelming infections including pneumonia. Although the association between splenectomy and pneumonia has been previously studied, there has been no study using the national ...
Shih-Wei Lai, Cheng-Li Lin, Kuan-Fu Liao
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Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.Although the level of evidence is not high, this review indicates that laparoscopic total gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer can be safely performed with the progress of surgical techniques, and there is little risk of worsening survival outcomes.
Takahiro Kinoshita +3 more
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Effects of blood transfusion on exercise capacity in thalassemia major patients [PDF]
, 2015 Anemia has an important role in exercise performance. However, the direct link between rapid changes of hemoglobin and exercise performance is still unknown.To find out more on this topic, we studied 18 beta-thalassemia major patients free of relevant ...
Agostoni, P +8 more
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Evaluation of Refractory Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Patients After Splenectomy
Cerrahpaşa Medical JournalObjective: In this study, we aimed to retrospectively evaluate the results of patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) who had undergone splenectomy.
Mehmet Günhan Tekin, Memiş Hilmi Atay
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Efficacy of prophylactic splenectomy for proximal advanced gastric cancer invading greater curvature
World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2017 Background For proximal gastric cancer invading the greater curvature, concomitant splenectomy is frequently performed to secure the clearance of lymph node metastases. However, prognostic impact of prophylactic splenectomy remains unclear.
Yu Ohkura +5 more
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Splenectomy does not affect the development of pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury
Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health, 2020 The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway offers a proposed mechanism to describe the increased risk of pneumonia following severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI).
Rindi Uhlich +4 more
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Platelet phenotype and function in the absence of splenic sequestration (Review)
Platelets, 2021 The spleen, in addition to its role in immunity, plays key roles in erythrocyte maintenance and platelet sequestration. Loss of the spleen via splenectomy occurs in approximately 6.4 to 7.1 per 100 000 people per year globally, commonly as a life-saving ...
Sarah Luu +2 more
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, 2015 of diaphragm. With advancement of laparoscopy and technology laparoscopic approach is routinely considered for patients requiring elective splenectomy regardless of spleen size.
Ping Bie
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