The inflammatory response has been shown to be a major contributor to acute kidney injury. Considering that laparoscopic surgery is beneficial in reducing the inflammatory response, we compared the incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury between laparoscopic liver resection and open liver resection. Among 1173 patients who underwent liver resection surgery, 222 of 926 patients who underw...

In this study based on ethnographic methods, we investigated how using a three-dimensional (3D) printed liver influenced doctors during liver resection surgery. Results of the analyses implied that using the 3D printed liver enhanced the construction of elaborate mental models of patients’ livers, the mental simulation of liver resections, and the construction of shared mental models of patient...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to find risk factors for early recurrence (ER) and early death (ED) after liver resection for colorectal cancer liver metastasis (CRCLM). METHODS Between May 1990 and December 2011, 279 patients underwent liver resection for CRCLM at Korea University Medical Center. They were assigned to group ER (recurrence within 6 months after liver resection) or group NER...

Synchronous or metachronous liver metastases occur in up to one-third of patients with colorectal cancer and are associated with a poor prognosis. Many evidences have shown that surgical resection can be curative, with 5-year survival rates ranging from 37% to 50%, but many patients are ineligible for surgery because of multiple liver lesions, bilobar distribution of liver metastases, or the pr...

BACKGROUND Intraparenchymal endometriosis of liver is rare. It may present as liver tumour and the diagnosis is not usually established till after surgery. CASE OUTLINE A 48-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with right upper quadrant pain and a cystic liver mass. Liver function tests and tumour markers (alphaFP, CEA, CA 19-9, and CA 125) were normal. Radiological imaging (USS, CT and MR...

Jan Lerut, Hynek Mergental, Delawir Kahn, Luiz Albuquerque, Juan Marrero, Jean Nicolas Vauthey, and Robert J Porte Starzl Abdominal Transplant Unit, St. Luc University Hospital, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Liver Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Department of Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Diges...

Echinococcus granulosis commonly involve the liver and are mostly seen in Turkey . One of early complication following surgery for hydatid cyst is biliary leakage (B.L.) which’s incidence %4.5-26. Endoscopic sphincterotomy (E.S.) stenting usually successful treating B.L. In this case, I’m presenting endoscopic treatment after operation.

Background. Hepatic fibrosis is a potential complication following Fontan surgery and heralds long-term risk for cirrhosis. Transient elastography (TE) is a rapid, noninvasive method to assess liver fibrosis by measuring liver stiffness. Objectives. To compare liver stiffness and liver biochemistries in pediatric Fontan patients with age- and sex-matched controls and to determine patients' acce...

Imaging detection of liver cancers and identification of the bile ducts during surgery, based on the fluorescence properties of indocyanine green, has recently been developed in liver surgery. The principle of this imaging technique relies on the intravenous administration of indocyanine green before surgery and the illumination of the surface of the liver by an infrared camera that simultaneou...

BACKGROUND Obesity is associated to several comorbidities, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, which implicates in isolated steatosis to steatohepatitis. The latter may progress to severe manifestations such as liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. AIM To compare the presence of advanced liver fibrosis before and after bariatric surgery in patients of private and pub...