BACKGROUND:?Postoperative hepatic failure is a dreadful complication after major hepatectomy and carries high morbidity and mortality rates. In this study, we a
BACKGROUND:?Crigler-Najjar syndrome type I (CNS I) is a very rare autosomal recessive inherited disease that liver transplantation can properly deal with. METH
BACKGROUND:?Controversy exists about the correlation between liver ultrasonography and serum parameters for evaluating the severity of liver involvement in non-
BACKGROUND:?Gastrin has a cholecystokinetic action on gallbladder motility, and cholecystokinin and gastrin act directly on the smooth muscle of the gallbladder
BACKGROUND: Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC) is a destructive inflammatory disease of the gallbladder that can mimic gallbladder carcinoma. METHODS: We p
BACKGROUND:?Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury is an important barrier to liver surgery and transplantation because it impairs remnant liver/reduced-size-graft r
BACKGROUND: Organ ifbrosis has been viewed as one of the major medical problems, which can lead to progressive dysfunction of the liver, lung, kidney, skin, hea
BACKGROUND:?Whether splenectomy can be performed simultaneously during liver transplantation in patients with end-stage liver diseases complicated by hypersplen