Prognostic Value of Mitral Annular Calcification in Liver Transplant Patients: Implication in Posttransplant Outcomes.

Background: With the rise of metabolic diseases and aging in liver transplant (LT) candidates, mitral annular calcification (MAC) is more recognizable. Despite cardiovascular risk becoming a leading cause of mortality in LT recipients, the influence of MAC remains unexamined. This study investigates the prevalence, related factors, and impact of MAC on LT outcomes.

Impact of Sarcopenia on Acute Kidney Injury after Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery: A Propensity Matching Analysis.

Background: Sarcopenia contributes to increased morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing surgery for abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). However, few reports have demonstrated whether sarcopenia would affect the development of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in these patients. This study aimed to examine whether sarcopenia is associated with AKI and morbidity and mortality after infrarenal AAA operation.

von Willebrand factor to protein C ratio-related thrombogenicity with systemic inflammation is predictive of graft dysfunction after liver transplantation: Retrospective cohort study.

Introduction: Early allograft dysfunction (EAD) is known to be a prototype of graft failure and ultimately influences long-term graft failure or death. We hypothesized that pretransplant thrombogenicity evaluated by procoagulant and anticoagulant, von Willebrand factor (vWF), factor Ⅷ (FⅧ), protein C (PC) and their imbalance ratio of vWF-to-PC (vWFPCR) and FVIII-to-PC (FⅧPCR), is associated with EAD and 90-day graft failure after living-related liver transplantation (LDLT) and contributes to further exacerbation of graft dysfunction when coexists with systemic inflammation.

Material And Methods: Of 1199 prospectively registered LDLT patients, 698 with measurements of each thrombogenicity parameters were analyzed.

Extranodal extension of lymph node metastasis as a prognostic indicator of recurrence and survival in papillary thyroid carcinoma.

Background And Objectives: Stratification of extranodal extension (ENE) extent has the potential to improve the accuracy of risk estimations in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). This study examined the prognostic importance of nodal factors, including ENE, in PTC patients.

Methods: This study enrolled 2071 consecutive patients with treatment-naïve PTC who underwent thyroidectomy between 2006 and 2010.