Background: The morbidity associated with liver transplantation and major hepatic resections
is partly a result of ischemia-reperfusion injury. Data Sources: The entire world literature on …

Method: A comprehensive Medline search to identify all registered literature in the English
language on portal vein embolization. Meta-analysis was performed to assess the result of …

Objective To assess a new bloodless technique using radiofrequency energy for segmental
liver resection of hepatic tumors. Summary Background Data Liver resection remains a …

A phase I study was performed to determine the safety and tolerability of injecting autologous
CD34 + cells into five patients with liver insufficiency. The study was based on the …

OBJECTIVES Recent advances in regenerative medicine, including hematopoietic stem cell
(HSC) transplantation, have brought hope for patients with severe alcoholic liver cirrhosis (…

Introduction. The development augmented reality devices allow physicians to incorporate
data visualization into diagnostic and treatment procedures to improve work efficiency, safety, …

… Nagy Habib is shareholder and director of EMcision which designed and developed the
device. None of the other authors have a conflict of interest or a financial disclosure to declare. …

BACKGROUND: In unresectable malignant bile duct obstruction in a patient with a life
expectancy longer than 3 months, the use of self-expandable metal stents (SEMSs) is the …

Background: Hypermethylation of a CpG-rich promoter (CpG island) blocks expression of the
corresponding gene. The CpG island methylator phenotype (CIMP), defined as a variable …

Targeted delivery of oligonucleotides to liver hepatocytes using N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc)
conjugates that bind to the asialoglycoprotein receptor has become a breakthrough …