National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81870444;Tianjin Natural Science Foundation,No.19JCQNJC10300;Spring Bud Plan of Tianjin First Central Hospital,No.TFCHCL201801.
BACKGROUND The most effective treatment for advanced cirrhosis and portal hypertension is liver transplantation(LT).However,splenomegaly and hypersplenism can persist even after LT in patients with massive splenomegal...
Since early 1990's,when it was inaugurally introduced,laparoscopic splenectomy has been performed with excellent results in terms of intraoperative and postoperative complications.Nowadays laparoscopic splenectomy is ...
Although the clinical benefit of laparoscopic splenectomy and devascularization(LSD) has been elaborated in many studies,its application in massive splenomegaly remains controversial.We conducted a retrospective res...
Background Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) has become the therapeutic option of choice for end-stage liver disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes of splenic morphology, signal-to-noise ...
BACKGROUND: Primary myelofibrosis (PMF) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by bone marrow fibrosis. Extra-medullary hematopoiesis sometimes occurs even in the peritoneal cavity, apart from organs such as t...
It was usually believed that splenomegaly definitely associates with hematocytopenia. However, we found that 31 out of 309 cases with portal hypertension splenomegaly did not appear hematocytopenia by observing 309 pa...
The Grant (Clinical Research Center of Liver Cirrhosis) of the Korea Health 21 Research and Development Project from Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea, No. A050021
AIM: To compare the recovery of thrombocytopenia and splenomegaly during long-term follow-up after liver transplantation in patients receiving a living donor transplant or a cadaveric donor transplant. METHODS: This...
This is a case report of a patient who presented with acute pancreatitis without the common causes. A pancreatic biopsy revealed large B cell lymphoma. Spleen lymphoma with pancreatic involvement inducing acute pancre...