Quantitative evaluation of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging of focal hepatic lesions.

abstract：:Actinomycosis is a rare, chronic, spreading, suppurative, granulomatous and fibrosing infection. Actinomyces are normal inhabitants of the oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract. They rarely cause disease and are seldom reported as pathogens. Herein, we reported on a 69-year-old male patient who had undergone Whipple'...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Hsu JT,Lo HC,Jan YY,Chen HM

更新日期：2005-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the effect of bursectomy on overall survival, recurrence-free survival and safety of patients with gastric cancer by performing a meta-analysis. METHODS:A literature search was performed in PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library databases for clinical research that compared bursectomy with non-bursec...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Shen WS,Xi HQ,Wei B,Chen L

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the commonest cancers with 1.2 million new cases diagnosed each year in the world. It remains the fourth most common cause of cancer-related mortality in the world and accounts for > 600000 cancer-related deaths each year. There have been significant advances in treatment of metastati...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Khan K,Wale A,Brown G,Chau I

更新日期：2014-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Esophagomediastinal fistula is a very rare complication of tuberculosis in otherwise healthy adults, and mediastinal bronchial artery aneurysm is even rarer. In this case report, we describe a rare case of tuberculosis complication that presented with acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding. It also highl...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Alharbi SR

更新日期：2019-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:AIM:To establish a new improved vascular anastomotic technique to simplify the surgical technique and increase the survival rate of small intestinal transplantation in rats.METHODS:The graft removed en bloc consisted of entire small intestine, portal vein and aortic segment with superior mesenteric artery. The graft w...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Li YX,Li JS,Li N

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight loss supplements often contain powerful pharmacoactive ingredients with the potential to cause harm. Trials used to determine product safety and effectiveness, meanwhile, tend to be small, of short duration, and frequently lack financial conflict of interest disclosures. These factors could conspire to place co...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lobb A

更新日期：2010-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) causes colitis and diarrhea, and is considered a candidate pathogen in inflammatory bowel diseases as well as colorectal cancers. These diseases are dependent on ETBF-secreted toxin (BFT). Dendritic cells (DCs) play an important role in directing the nature of adap...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ko SH,Jeon JI,Woo HA,Kim JM

更新日期：2020-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To observe the therapeutic effects of dexamethasone on rats with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) and investigate the influences of dexamethasone on the inflammatory mediators and NF-kappaB expression in multiple organs of SAP rats as well as the mechanisms involved. METHODS:Ninety Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats with SAP...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Zhang XP,Zhang L,Chen LJ,Cheng QH,Wang JM,Cai W,Shen HP,Cai J

更新日期：2007-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The biology of colorectal cancer differs according to its location within the large intestine. A report published in a previous issue of World Journal of Gastroenterology (November 2010) evaluated the importance of tumor location as a risk factor for lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer, and showed that rectal c...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Akiyoshi T,Watanabe T,Ueno M,Muto T

更新日期：2011-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with advanced gastric cancer (AGC) can be treated with multiple lines of chemotherapy. Although several randomized trials have demonstrated the benefit of second-line chemotherapy compared with best supportive care, there is no evidence that further lines of chemotherapy will result in substantial prolongatio...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Kim SM,Park SH

更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the serum concentration of antimitochondrial antibodies (AMAs) as a prognostic indicator of progressive primary biliary cirrhosis (pPBC). METHODS:Serum concentrations of AMA subtypes (anti-M2, anti-M4, and anti-M9), biochemical indices of liver function and Mayo risk factor (MRF) were determined in 30 ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Flisiak R,Pelszynska M,Prokopowicz D,Rogalska M,Grygoruk U

更新日期：2005-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the relationship between α-fetoprotein (AFP) and various clinicopathological variables and different staging system of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) thoroughly. METHODS:A retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients diagnosed with HCC between January 2008 and December 2009 in West China Hospital ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Liu C,Xiao GQ,Yan LN,Li B,Jiang L,Wen TF,Wang WT,Xu MQ,Yang JY

更新日期：2013-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of therapy in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is sustained virological response (SVR) which reflects HCV eradication. Treatment against HCV has dramatically improved with the recent availability of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) including sofosbuvir, simeprevir, daclatasvir, ledipasvir/sofosbuvir, ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Cholongitas E,Pipili C,Papatheodoridis G

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of a 32-year-old woman with episodic right lower quadrant abdominal pain. With the diagnosis of either acute appendicitis or tubo-ovarian abscess, she was treated with antibiotics, which successfully relieved the pain and the inflammatory findings. She repeated the clinical condition a few times and a...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Niwa H,Hiramatsu T

更新日期：2008-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Two major types of cancer occur in the esophagus: squamous cell carcinoma, which is associated with chronic smoking and alcohol consumption, and adenocarcinoma, which typically arises in gastric reflux-associated Barrett's esophagus. Although there is increasing incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma in Western counti...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sasaki Y,Tamura M,Koyama R,Nakagaki T,Adachi Y,Tokino T

更新日期：2016-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To accurately and realistically elucidate human stem cell behaviors in vivo and the fundamental mechanisms controlling human stem cell fates in vivo, which is urgently required in regenerative medicine and treatments for some human diseases, a surrogate human-rat chimera model was developed. METHODS:Human-rat chim...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sun Y,Xiao D,Pan XH,Zhang RS,Cui GH,Chen XG

更新日期：2007-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the clinical and pathologic findings, and to discuss the pathophysiology of hepatocellular carcinoma with cardiac metastasis. METHODS:Eight hepatoma patients with cardiac metastasis, who were treated by surgical excision from 1993 to 2006, were retrospectively studied. Detailed clinical parameters w...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lin YS,Jung SM,Tsai FC,Yeh CN,Shiu TF,Wu HH,Lin PJ,Chu PH

更新日期：2007-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To re-evaluate the theory that colonic diverticulosis is associated with relapse of Clostridium difficile associated disease (CDAD) in light of data suggesting increasing rates of CDAD infection and relapse. METHODS:Charts were reviewed for patients with recurrent CDAD who had also had a prior colonoscopy or flexi...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Lipp MJ,Pagovich OE,Rabin D,Min AD,Bernstein BB

更新日期：2010-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Hepatitis B virus (HBV) re-activation often occurs spontaneously or after withdrawal of immunosuppressive therapy in patients with chronic hepatitis B. Severe exacerbation, sometimes developing into fulminant hepatic failure, is at high risk of mortality. The efficacy of corticosteroid therapy in "clinically severe...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Fujiwara K,Yokosuka O,Kojima H,Kanda T,Saisho H,Hirasawa H,Suzuki H

更新日期：2005-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorectal cancer metastasizes predictably, with liver predominance in most cases. Because liver involvement has been shown to be a major determinant of survival in this population, liver-directed therapies are increasingly considered even in cases where there is (limited) extrahepatic disease. Unfortunately, these pa...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Sag AA,Selcukbiricik F,Mandel NM

更新日期：2016-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Examinations with a visualisation of the anatomy and pathology of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are often necessary for the diagnosis of GI diseases. Traditional radiology played a crucial role for many years. Endoscopy, despite some limitations, remains the main technique in the differential diagnosis and treatment...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Roccarina D,Garcovich M,Ainora ME,Caracciolo G,Ponziani F,Gasbarrini A,Zocco MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the most common infection in humans, with a marked disparity between developed and developing countries. Although H. pylori infections are asymptomatic in most infected individuals, they are intimately related to malignant gastric conditions such as gastric cancer and gastric mucosa-...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Campuzano-Maya G

更新日期：2014-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the effects of osteopontin (OPN) gene expression knockdown on colon cancer Lovo cells in vitro. METHODS:Four candidate small interfering RNA (siRNA) constructs targeting the OPN gene and a scrambled control sequence (NC-siRNA) were synthesized and inserted into a pGPU6/GFP/Neo expression vector. Aft...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Wu XL,Lin KJ,Bai AP,Wang WX,Meng XK,Su XL,Hou MX,Dong PD,Zhang JJ,Wang ZY,Shi L

更新日期：2014-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is currently known to be a safer procedure than it was before because of technical advances and improvement in postoperative patient management and remains the first-line treatment for HCC in compensated cirrhosis. The aim of this review is to assess current indicatio...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Gaillard M,Tranchart H,Dagher I

更新日期：2014-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) produce an enzyme known as γ-glutamyl transpeptidase (HpGGT) that is highly conserved and common to all strains. HpGGT has been gaining increasing attention as an important virulence factor of the bacterium, having been demonstrated to be an important colonization factor in several anim...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Ling SS,Yeoh KG,Ho B

更新日期：2013-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the expression of p28/gankyrin gene and its role in the carcinogenetic process of human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS:64 specimens of HCC and para-carcinoma tissues, 22 specimens of non-tumor liver tissues (7 normal, 15 cirrhosis), 10 specimens of normal human tissues and 5 hepatoma cell l...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Fu XY,Wang HY,Tan L,Liu SQ,Cao HF,Wu MC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of uninvestigated dyspepsia among college students in Zhejiang Province. METHODS:Young adult students attending undergraduate (within the 4-year program) and graduate (only first-year students) colleges in Zhejiang Province were recruited between November 2010 and ...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Li M,Lu B,Chu L,Zhou H,Chen MY

更新日期：2014-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Manuscript of Carrera et al is devoted to immunization in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that is very important issue in gastroenterology. However, some specific definitions used in the article need clarification. Efficacy of vaccine is measured in a randomised, placebo-controlled studies, that are expensive and dif...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Banaszkiewicz A,Radzikowski A

更新日期：2013-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To analyze 67 cases of splenic abscess in a medical center of Taiwan during a period of 19 years. METHODS:From January 1986 to December 2004, a total of 67 patients with splenic abscess were enrolled for the retrospective study. The clinical characteristics, underlying diseases, organism spectra, therapeutic metho...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Chang KC,Chuah SK,Changchien CS,Tsai TL,Lu SN,Chiu YC,Chen YS,Wang CC,Lin JW,Lee CM,Hu TH

更新日期：2006-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the effectiveness of pancreatic stents for preventing pancreatitis in high-risk patients after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). METHODS:PubMed, Embase, Science Citation Index, and Cochrane Controlled Trials Register were searched to identify relevant trials published in English. Inc...

journal_title：World journal of gastroenterology

authors： Shi QQ,Ning XY,Zhan LL,Tang GD,Lv XP

更新日期：2014-06-14 00:00:00