Cholangiocarcinoma: a 7-year experience at a single center in Greece.

Aim: To evaluate survival rate and clinical outcome of cholangiocarcinoma.

Methods: The medical records of 34 patients with cholangiocarcinoma, seen at a single hospital between the years 1999-2006, were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: Thirty-four patients with a median age of 75 years were included.

Predicting utility of a model for end stage liver disease in alcoholic liver disease.

Aim: To validate the statistic utility of both the Maddrey Discriminant Function score and the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease as predictors of short term (30 d and 90 d) mortality in patients with alcoholic hepatitis and to assess prognostic factors among clinical characteristics and laboratory variables of patients with alcoholic hepatitis.

Methods: Thirty-four patients with the diagnosis of alcoholic hepatitis admitted to Hippokration University Hospital of Athens from 2000 to 2005 were assessed in the current retrospective study and a statistical analysis was conducted.

Results: 30- and 90-d mortality rates were reported at 5.