Viscoelastic tests,specifically thromboelastography and rotational thromboelastometry,are increasingly being used in the management of postoperative bleeding in surgical intensive care units(ICUs).However,life-threate...
Erythropoietic protoporphyria(EPP)is an extremely rare disease which is often unrecognized as diagnosis.In the recent article Lui et al describe a patient with a new diagnosis of EPP with severe liver injury.Approxima...
Gastrectomy with radical lymph node dissection is the most promising treatment avenue for patients with gastric cancer. However, this procedure sometimes induces excessive intraoperative blood loss and requires periop...
Bleeding and coagulopathy are critical issues complicating pediatric liver transplantation and contributing to morbidity and mortality in the cirrhotic child. The complexity of coagulopathy in the pediatric patient is...
There is wide variation in the management of coagulation and blood transfusion practice in liver transplantation. The use of blood products intraoperatively is declining and transfusion free transplantations take plac...
AIM:To compare the outcome of upper gastrointestinal bleeding(UGIB) between patients receiving restrictive and liberal transfusion.METHODS:PubMed,EMBASE,and Cochrane Library databases were employed to identify all rel...
AIM:To elucidate the potential impact of intraoperative blood loss(IBL)on long-term survival of gastric cancer patients after curative surgery.METHODS:A total of 845 stageⅠ-Ⅲgastric cancer patients who underwent cur...
METHODS: Between December 2006 and June 2008, a total of 524 transfusion-associated HCV-RNA positive patients with or without HCC were enrolled, Liver stiffness was obtained noninvasively by using Fibroscan (Echosen...
AIM:To investigate whether fresh frozen plasma (FFP) transfusion affects outcomes following hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in terms of liver function,postoperative complications and cancer progno...