A5010181488- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- MRI in cancer diagnosis
- Clinical Nutrition and Gastroenterology
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Renal cell carcinoma treatment
- Vascular anomalies and interventions
- Biliary and Gastrointestinal Fistulas
- Abdominal vascular conditions and treatments
- Hepatitis C virus research
- Dysphagia Assessment and Management
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
- Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Pediatric Hepatobiliary Diseases and Treatments
- Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments
- Mesenchymal stem cell research
- Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
- Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer Studies
Chang Gung University
2018-2024
Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
2018-2024
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
2023
Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and efficacy Yttrium-90 radioembolization using in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma. Methods: From 2017 2021, 32 patients with carcinoma, mean tumor diameter about 7cm (21 males, 11 females; median age, 57.5 years age), treated resin microspheres were reviewed at pre-Yttrium-90 post-Yttrium-90 follow-up. Tumor response assessed according modified Response Evaluation Criteria Solid Tumors. Outcomes including overall survival...
The relationship between the psoas muscle index (PMI) and appendicular skeletal (ASMI) in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD) is not yet understood. Our goal to determine which level of lumbar spine best represents muscle. This retrospective study involved cACLD January 2020 December 2021. We documented patients' body weight, height, gait speed, handgrip strength, measured by DXA, area segmented on computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. Low mass, as...
Purpose: To evaluate treatment response, survival and safety of a novel TACE using combination ethanol-Lipiodol mixture drug-eluting beads in patients with large unresectable HCC, single tumor >8 cm or multiple tumors the largest diameter >5 total >10 cm.Patients Methods: Between June 2016 February 2020, 27 were enrolled this retrospective cohort study.Treatment response was assessed at first month after treatment; progression-free (PFS) overall (OS) evaluated.The prognostic factors...
Tumor recurrence is the major risk factor affecting post-transplant survival. In this retrospective study, we evaluate prognostic values of magnetic resonance (MR) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).From April 2014 to September 2016, 106 HCC patients receiving living donor (LDLT) were enrolled. Nine excluded due postoperative death within 3 months and incomplete data. The association between tumor recurrence, explant pathologic...
Abstract Despite technological and immunological innovations, living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) recipients still face substantial risk of postoperative complications. Sarcopenia is being recognized more as a biomarker that correlates with poor outcomes in surgical patients. The purpose this study was to evaluate the relationship between sarcopenia significant complications LDLT recipients. This retrospective review included patients who had received at our institute from 2005 2017....
An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that connects the arteries and veins. Because normal capillary bed partially or completely absented in AVM, passes quickly from to veins, which disrupts flow oxygen supply surrounding tissues. This called "steal phenomenon," inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) territory, this may lead abdominal pain, gastrointestinal bleeding, portal hypertension, even ischemic colitis.A 67-year-old man presented our emergency department...
Intractable ascites (IA) is an uncommon but challenging complication after liver transplantation.Splenic artery embolization (SAE) modulates the splenic and regulates portal flow.This study aimed to evaluate efficacy safety of SAE using Amplatzer vascular plug (AVP) versus coil for post-living-donor transplantation (LDLT) IA. METHODSThis retrospective evaluated consecutive patients from 1 center who received LDLT (n = 1410) between March 2006 August 2019.The inclusion criteria were...
Background: Since the advent of a new generation inflow-sensitive inversion recovery (IFIR) technology, three-dimensional non-contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography is being used to obtain hepatic vessel images without applying gadolinium contrast agent. The purpose this study was explore diagnostic efficacy (non-CE MRA), contrast-enhanced (CMRA), and computed tomography (CTA) in preoperative evaluation living liver donors. Methods: A total 43 donor candidates who were evaluated...
[b]BACKGROUND[/b] Early hepatic artery thrombosis (eHAT) is a severe arterial complication leading to biliary complications and graft failure in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). This study sought early identify the abnormal waveforms of eHAT by using intensive Doppler ultrasonography (DUS) after LDLT assess clinical outcome these patients. [b]MATERIAL AND METHODS[/b] DUS for 419 adult recipients was performed twice vascular anastomosis during once day at bedside least 2 weeks....
Microvascular invasion (MVI) in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a histopathological marker and risk factor for HCC recurrence. We integrated diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) magnetic resonance (MR) image findings of tumors into scoring system predicting MVI. In total, 228 patients with pathologically confirmed MVI who underwent surgical resection or liver transplant between November 2012 March 2021 were enrolled retrospectively. Patients divided right lobe group (n = 173, 75.9%) as the...
BackgroundLiver transplantation is an effective treatment for preventing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence. This retrospective study aimed to quantitatively evaluate the attenuation in Hounsfield units (HU) on contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) as a prognostic factor following liver treatment. Our goal optimize its predictive ability early tumor recurrence and compare it with other imaging modality − positron emission (PET).MethodsIn 618 cases of LDLT HCC, only 131 patients...
The present study aims to assess the short-term clinical outcomes and safety of transarterial embolization (TAE) for symptomatic hand osteoarthritis (OA) refractory conservative treatment.
Abstract Purpose Despite technological and immunological innovations, living-donor liver transplant (LDLT) recipients still face substantial risk of postoperative complications. Sarcopenia is being recognized more as a biomarker that correlates with poor outcomes in surgical patients. The purpose this study was to evaluate the relationship between sarcopenia significant complications LDLT recipients. Materials Methods This retrospective review included patients who had received at our...