Publications by authors named "Chuang Ye He"
We aimed to detect alterations in diffusion characteristics of brain white matter in hepatic myelopathy (HM) patients. Liver cirrhosis patients with (n=25) and without (n=18) HM after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt and 26 healthy controls were enrolled in this study. All participants were scanned with diffusion tensor imaging on a 3T Siemens scanner.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To evaluate the effect of the shunting branch of the portal vein (PV) (left or right) and the initial stent position (optimal or suboptimal) of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS).
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 307 consecutive cirrhotic patients who underwent TIPS placement for variceal bleeding from March 2001 to July 2010 at our center. The left PV was used in 221 patients and the right PV in the remaining 86 patients.
Aim: To evaluate the outcome of non-malignant and non-cirrhotic patients with portal cavernoma and to determine the predictors for survival.
Methods: Between July 2002 and June 2010, we retrospectively enrolled all consecutive patients admitted to our department with a diagnosis of portal cavernoma without abdominal malignancy or liver cirrhosis. The primary endpoint of this observational study was death and cause of death.
Objective: This prospective non-randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the efficacy of sorafenib in combination with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) vs TACE alone for the treatment of patients with unresectable intermediate or advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.
Methods: A total of 304 patients were enrolled, in which 82 received concurrent sorafenib (400 mg orally twice daily, initiated within 14 days after TACE), and these patients were matched with 164 patients who received TACE alone at a 1:2 ratio using propensity score matching to minimize selection bias. The response to treatment, time-to-progression (TTP), overall survival (OS) as well as adverse events were compared between the two groups.
Objective: To identify the risk factors of early post-TIPS hepatic encephalopathy (HE) and the long-time survival of patients with or without early post-TIPS HE.
Methods: Consecutive cirrhotic patients who underwent TIPS for variceal rebleeding or refractory ascites in our center from January 2003 to December 2008 were included in this study. More than 60 clinical characteristics were enrolled in univariate analysis and logistic regression analysis to define the risk factors of HE in 3 months after TIPS procedure (early post-TIPS HE).
Objective: To evaluate retrospectively the feasibility, efficacy and safety of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) or percutaneous transhepatic or transsplenic approach to the portal vein with the combination of TIPS for the treatment of patients with portal vein thrombosis with or without cavernous transformation.
Methods: Sixty-five patients with portal vein thrombosis from July 2002 to August 2007 at our hospital were analyzed retrospectively. Indirect portography through superior mesenteric artery was performed to determine the approaches for TIPS procedure.
Objectives: Evaluate the effect of an implanted percutaneous left subclavian artery port-catheter drug delivery system for regional chemotherapy of inoperable pancreatic carcinoma.
Methods: One hundred and forty patients with inoperable pancreatic carcinoma were enrolled and randomized into two groups to receive the FAM regimen on a 6-day cycle at 1-month intervals: 70 patients in the regional interventional chemotherapy group in which treatment was infused directly into the common hepatic artery, and 70 patients who received the same chemotherapy regimen via the peripheral vein.
Result: In the interventional chemotherapy group, there were 5 cases of complete remission (CR) and 49 cases of partial remission (PR), giving a response rate (CR+PR) of 77.