Budd-Chiari syndrome: diagnosis with three-dimensional contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography.

abstract：:Constitutive activation of the insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-signaling axis is frequently observed in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Especially the overexpression of the fetal growth factor IGF-II, IGF-I receptor (IGF-IR), and cytoplasmic downstream effectors such as insulin-receptor substrates (IRS) contrib...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Breuhahn K,Schirmacher P

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cysts are identified at an increasing frequency. Although mucinous cystic neoplasms represent a pre-malignant condition, the majority of these lesions do not progress to cancer. Over the last 10 years several societies have established guidelines for the diagnosis, initial evaluation and surveillance of the...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hasan A,Visrodia K,Farrell JJ,Gonda TA

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the diagnosis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) using contrast ultrasonography in the NASH rat model. METHODS:The liver in methionine choline-deficient diet (MCDD) rats, a NASH model constructed by feeding an MCDD, was examined by contrast ultrasonography at weeks 2, 4, 8, 12 and 16, with late ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Miyata Y,Miyahara T,Moriyasu F

更新日期：2011-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided biliary drainage is accepted as a less invasive, alternative treatment for patients in whom endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has failed. Most patients with malignant hilar obstruction undergo EUS-guided hepaticogastrostomy. The authors present the case of a 77-year-old ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Prachayakul V,Aswakul P

更新日期：2015-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate prospectively usefulness of fecal lactoferrin (Lf) and fecal hemoglobin (Hb) in the diagnosis of colorectal diseases. METHODS:Fecal Lf and Hb were measured using ELISA in 872 patients before they underwent colorectal endoscopy. RESULTS:Lf was positive in 18 (50%) of 36 patients with colorectal cancer,...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hirata I,Hoshimoto M,Saito O,Kayazawa M,Nishikawa T,Murano M,Toshina K,Wang FY,Matsuse R

更新日期：2007-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the therapeutic effects of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) transplanted intraperitoneally and intravenously in a murine model of colitis. METHODS:MSCs were isolated from C57BL/6 mouse adipose tissue. MSC cultures were analyzed according to morphology, cellular differentiation potential, and surface mo...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Gonçalves Fda C,Schneider N,Pinto FO,Meyer FS,Visioli F,Pfaffenseller B,Lopez PL,Passos EP,Cirne-Lima EO,Meurer L,Paz AH

更新日期：2014-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a prognostic factor and a marker of deficient mismatch repair (MMR) in colorectal adenocarcinomas (CRC). However, a proper application of this marker requires understanding the following: (1) The MSI concept: The PCR approach must amplify the correct locus and accurately identify th...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Blanes A,Diaz-Cano SJ

更新日期：2006-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the clinical efficacy of the second-generation H2RA lafutidine with that of lansoprazole in Japanese patients with mild gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). METHODS:Patients with symptoms of GERD and a diagnosis of grade A reflux esophagitis (according to the Los Angeles classification) were randomiz...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Takenaka R,Okada H,Kawano S,Komazawa Y,Yoshinaga F,Nagata S,Inoue M,Komatsu H,Onogawa S,Kushiyama Y,Mukai S,Todo H,Okanobu H,Manabe N,Tanaka S,Haruma K,Kinoshita Y

更新日期：2016-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focused in the perioperative management of patients with pancreatic cancer in order to improve the outcome of the disease. We consider that the most controversial points in pancreatic cancer management are jaundice management, vascular resection and neo-adjuvant therapy. Preoperative biliary drainage is re...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Alamo JM,Marín LM,Suarez G,Bernal C,Serrano J,Barrera L,Gómez MA,Muntané J,Padillo FJ

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferon (IFN) therapy is the only treatment strategy for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection after liver transplantation (LT), but prophylactic and treatable IFN therapy after LT has been shown to be insufficient due to the adverse effects of IFN and rivabirin. In this paper, we describe the disappearance of HCV afte...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ichikawa T,Nakao K,Hamasaki K,Honda T,Shibata H,Akahoshi M,Eguchi S,Takatsuki M,Kanematsu T,Eguchi K

更新日期：2007-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effect of schisandrin B (Sch B) on proliferation and apoptosis of human hepatoma SMMC-7721 cells in vitro and regulation of Hsp70 and Caspases-3, 7, 9 expression by Sch B. METHODS:Human hepatoma cell line SMMC-7721 was cultured and treated with Sch B at various concentrations. Growth suppression...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Wu YF,Cao MF,Gao YP,Chen F,Wang T,Zumbika EP,Qian KX

更新日期：2004-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effect of epidural anaesthesia (EA) on pancreatic microcirculation during acute pancreatitis (AP). METHODS:AP was induced by injection of sodium taurocholate into the pancreatic duct of Sprague-Dawley rats. To realize EA, a catheter was introduced into the epidural space between T7 and T9 and bu...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Demirag A,Pastor CM,Morel P,Jean-Christophe C,Sielenkämper AW,Güvener N,Mai G,Berney T,Frossard JL,Bühler LH

更新日期：2006-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Laparoscopy has been widely used in general surgical procedures, but total laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (TLPD) is still a complex and challenging surgery that is only performed in a small number of patients at a few large academic medical centers. Although the safety and feasibility of TLPD have been...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Zhang H,Lan X,Peng B,Li B

更新日期：2019-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The liver is the commonest site of distant metastasis of colorectal cancer and nearly half of the patients with colorectal cancer ultimately develop liver involved during the course of their diseases. Surgery is the only therapy that offers the possibility of cure for patients with hepatic metastatic diseases. Five-ye...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Liu LX,Zhang WH,Jiang HC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the incidence of peripheral fractures in patients with celiac disease (CD) and the effect of treatment on fracture risk. METHODS:We compared the incidence and risk of peripheral fractures before and after diagnosis between a cohort of 265 patients who had been diagnosed with CD at least 5 years before...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sánchez MI,Mohaidle A,Baistrocchi A,Matoso D,Vázquez H,González A,Mazure R,Maffei E,Ferrari G,Smecuol E,Crivelli A,de Paula JA,Gómez JC,Pedreira S,Mauriño E,Bai JC

更新日期：2011-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effect of quercetin supplementation on the myenteric neurons and glia in the cecum of diabetic rats. METHODS:Total preparations of the muscular tunic were prepared from the ceca of twenty-four rats divided into the following groups: control (C), control supplemented with quercetin (200 mg/kg que...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ferreira PE,Lopes CR,Alves AM,Alves ÉP,Linden DR,Zanoni JN,Buttow NC

更新日期：2013-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:High-quality data remains scarce in terms of optimal management strategies in the elderly inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) population. Indeed, available trials have been mostly retrospective, of small sample size, likely owing to under-representation of such a population in the major randomized controlled trials. Howe...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： LeBlanc JF,Wiseman D,Lakatos PL,Bessissow T

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify preoperative predictive factors associated with malignancy of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas. METHODS:Between April 1995 and April 2010, 129 patients underwent surgical resection for IPMNs at our institute and had confirmed pathologic diagnoses. The medical records wer...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lee JH,Lee KT,Park J,Bae SY,Lee KH,Lee JK,Jang KT,Heo JS,Choi SH,Choi DW,Rhee JC

更新日期：2010-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify predictors for synchronous liver metastasis from resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and assess unresectability of synchronous liver metastasis. METHODS:Retrospective records of PDAC patients with synchronous liver metastasis who underwent simultaneous resections of primary PDAC and sync...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Shi HJ,Jin C,Fu DL

更新日期：2016-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the effect of chemotherapy on wound healing by giving early preoperative 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) to rats with colonic anastomoses. METHODS:Sixty Albino-Wistar male rats (median weight, 235 g) were used in this study. The rats were fed with standard laboratory food and given tap water ad libitum. The ani...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ozel L,Ozel MS,Toros AB,Kara M,Ozkan KS,Tellioglu G,Krand O,Koyuturk M,Berber I

更新日期：2009-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To measure the normal space between the posterior wall of the vagina and the anterior wall of the respectively rectum using computed tomography (CT) and reveal its were relationship to rectocele. METHODS:A total of twenty female volunteers without rectocele were examined by CT scan. We performed a middle level con...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Liu J,Zhai LD,Li YS,Liu WX,Wang RH

更新日期：2009-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the cleansing efficacy and safety of a new Colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) bowel preparation regimen. METHODS:This was a multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled study comparing two CCE regimens. Subjects were asymptomatic and average risk for colorectal cancer. The second generation CCE system (Pi...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kastenberg D,Burch WC Jr,Romeo DP,Kashyap PK,Pound DC,Papageorgiou N,Sainz IF,Sokach CE,Rex DK

更新日期：2017-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To establish the rapid, specific, and sensitive method for detecting O157:H7 with DNA microchips. METHODS:Specific oligonucleotide probes (26-28 nt) of bacterial antigenic and virulent genes of E. coli O157:H7 and other related pathogen genes were pre-synthesized and immobilized on a solid support to make microchi...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Jin HY,Tao KH,Li YX,Li FQ,Li SQ

更新日期：2005-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:"Psychosocial stress" is an increasingly common concept in the challenging and highly-demanding modern society of today. Organic response to stress implicates two major components of the stress system, namely the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the sympathetic nervous system. Stress is anamnestically reported ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Vere CC,Streba CT,Streba LM,Ionescu AG,Sima F

更新日期：2009-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effect and mechanism of action of the nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) on invasion and metastasis of human colorectal cancer cell line SL-174T. METHODS:Human colorectal cancer cell line SL-174T was cultured and treated separately with four different...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yu LB,Dong XS,Sun WZ,Zhao DL,Yang Y

更新日期：2005-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) can be really considered to be systemic diseases since they are often associated with extraintestinal manifestations, complications, and other autoimmune disorders. Indeed, physicians who care for patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, the two major forms of IBD, face a...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Danese S,Semeraro S,Papa A,Roberto I,Scaldaferri F,Fedeli G,Gasbarrini G,Gasbarrini A

更新日期：2005-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:At our academic tertiary care medical center, we have noted patients referred for endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) who increasingly require advanced cannulation techniques. This trend is noted despite increased endoscopist experience and annual ERCP volume over the same period. AIM:To e...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Barakat MT,Girotra M,Thosani N,Kothari S,Banerjee S

更新日期：2020-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pancreatic endocrine insufficiency after acute pancreatitis (AP) has drawn increasing attention in recent years. AIM:To assess the impact of risk factors on the development of pancreatic endocrine insufficiency after AP. METHODS:This retrospective observational long-term follow-up study was conducted in a ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Yu BJ,Li NS,He WH,He C,Wan JH,Zhu Y,Lu NH

更新日期：2020-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermented foods have been consumed for centuries across many geographical locales and have traditionally been considered healthy foods, partly because of the live microbes contained in them. The concept of "probiotics" further requires that the microbes be defined and their health effects be demonstrated through human...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ebner S,Smug LN,Kneifel W,Salminen SJ,Sanders ME

更新日期：2014-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate retrospectively the correlation between enhancement patterns on dynamic computed tomography (CT) and angiogenesis and fibrosis in pancreatic adenocarcinoma. METHODS:Twenty-three patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma underwent dynamic CT and tumor resection. In addition to the absolute and relative en...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hattori Y,Gabata T,Matsui O,Mochizuki K,Kitagawa H,Kayahara M,Ohta T,Nakanuma Y

更新日期：2009-07-07 00:00:00