High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation: a non-surgical approach to treat advanced and complicated liver alveococcosis.

Liver alveococcosis is a life-threatening parasitic disease with progressive growth and wide metastasis to neighboring tissues, lungs, and brain. The radical treatment option is surgery along with a few chemical therapies. However, the frequency of progression and recurrence, as well as postoperative complications and mortality, remains very high.

Renal functional reserve and renal hemodynamics in hypertensive patients.

The renal functional reserve (RFR) is the ability of the kidneys to increase renal plasma flow and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in response to protein intake. It is a measure of functional and anatomic integrity of nephrons. It is not known what relation between RFR and kidney Doppler parameters.

Treatment of liver alveococcosis with high-intensity focused ultrasound.

This study evaluates the feasibility of using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of liver alveococcosis. HIFU ablation was carried out in 36 patients with alveococcosis of the liver. The median age of patients was 39.