Hemostatic modulation with the liver dialysis device in humans with advanced liver disease.

Background/aims: To determine the alterations in coagulation and fibrinolysis occurring in patients treated with the liver dialysis device.

Methodology: Patients with advanced liver disease treated with the liver dialysis device were studied immediately before and after the liver dialysis device treatment.

Setting: A university hospital intensive care unit.

Synchronous benign and malignant salivary gland tumors in ipsilateral glands: a report of two cases and a review of literature.

Background: Ipsilateral salivary gland tumors of different histologic types are rare and make up less than 0.3% of all salivary gland neoplasms. Only nine cases of synchronous benign and malignant ipsilateral parotid gland tumors have been described in the literature.