Liver fibrosis estimated using extracellular volume fraction obtained from dual-energy CT as a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma after sustained virologic response: A preliminary case-control study.

Purpose: To assess hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) risk after sustained virologic response (SVR) through clinical data analyses, including evaluation of liver fibrosis using the extracellular volume fraction (ECV) obtained from dual-energy computed tomography (DECT).

Methods: Ninety-two patients (52 men and 40 women; mean age, 69.9 years) with hepatitis C virus infection after SVR underwent DECT of the liver (3-minute equilibrium-phase images) between January 2020 and March 2022.

[Usefulness of Electron Density Calculated from Dual Energy CT in Differential Diagnosis between Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Hepatic Hemangioma].

Purpose: The aim of this study were to compare electron density (ED), obtained by dual energy computed tomography (DECT), between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and hemangioma, and to assess the differential diagnostic performance of ED between HCC and hemangioma.

Methods: A total of 46 patients (27 men and 19 women; mean age, 65.7±14.

Extracellular volume fraction obtained by dual-energy CT depicting the etiological differences of liver fibrosis.

Purpose: To assess etiological differences in extracellular volume fraction (ECV) and evaluate its influence on staging performance.

Methods: A total of 166 patients with normal liver (n = 14) and chronic liver disease related to viral hepatitis (n = 71), alcohol (n = 44), and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) (n = 37) underwent dual-energy CT (DECT) of the liver (5-min equilibrium-phase images) between January 2020 and July 2022. The iodine densities of the parenchyma and aorta were measured and ECV was calculated.

Living donor liver transplantation using sensitized lymphocytotoxic crossmatch positive graft.

We describe a successful living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) using a lymphocytotoxic crossmatch highly positive graft. A 41-year-old woman with alcoholic liver cirrhosis was referred as a potential candidate for LDLT, and her husband was willing to donate his partial liver. As the T-lymphocytotoxic crossmatch titer was over 10,000×, the patient was first infused with rituximab for preoperative desensitization, and then five rounds of plasmapheresis were performed.

[Efficacy of box-lesion set in maze procedure].

Comparative study of box-lesion set and past single ablation lesion set were made in 48 patient who underwent the Cox maze IV procedure for atrial fibrillation (Af) from October 2004 through October 2009. Before May 2008, the pulmonary veins were connected with single ablation lesion set (n = 20), where as a box-lesion set was performed (n = 28) after that. Their mean age was 68.

[Treatment of acute type B aortic dissection with organ ischemia].

Nine patients, who suffered from acute type B aortic dissection with organ ischemia, were treated at our hospital from 2004 to 2006. Their mean age was 60.3 (range 37-73) years.

Variations in carotid arterial compliance during the menstrual cycle in young women.

The effect of menstrual cycle phase on arterial elasticity is controversial. In 10 healthy women (20.6+/-1.

Unfavorable effects of resistance training on central arterial compliance: a randomized intervention study.

Background: Reductions in the compliance of central arteries exert a number of adverse effects on cardiovascular function and disease risk. Endurance training is efficacious in increasing arterial compliance in healthy adults. We determined the effects of resistance training on carotid arterial compliance using the intervention study design.

Greater age-related reductions in central arterial compliance in resistance-trained men.

Reductions in the compliance of central arteries exert a number of adverse effects on systemic cardiovascular function and disease risk. Using the cross-sectional study design, we determined the relation between chronic resistance training and carotid arterial compliance. A total of 62 healthy normotensive men, 20 to 39 years of age (young) and 40 to 60 years of age (middle-aged), who were either sedentary or resistance-trained, were studied.