Publications by authors named "P Baldin"
Nodular Regenerative Hyperplasia: Report of 82 Patients and Systematic Review of Literature.
United European Gastroenterol J
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- The study examines patients with nodular regenerative hyperplasia, focusing on their clinical and histopathological features, as well as comparing results with existing literature.
- Out of 82 patients, 45% had signs of portal hypertension at diagnosis, while 33% were diagnosed incidentally during other procedures.
- The research found that patients diagnosed incidentally had fewer liver-related complications and were more likely to have associated conditions compared to those diagnosed by clinical suspicion.
Background: The concept of failure to rescue (FTR) has been used to evaluate the quality of care in several surgical specialties but has not been well-studied after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in children.
Methods: This study retrospectively reviewed 500 pediatric LDLT performed at a single center between 1993 and 2022. The recipient outcomes were assessed by means of patient and graft survival rates, retransplantation rates, and arterial/portal/biliary complication rates.
Article Synopsis
- Nearly all medications can cause drug-induced liver injury (DILI), which often has unpredictable and poorly understood reactions.
- Pirfenidone, an antifibrotic drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, can elevate liver enzymes but usually doesn't require stopping the medication.
- This case study discusses a 70-year-old woman who experienced acute hepatocellular hepatitis due to pirfenidone, emphasizing the importance of early detection and reporting of DILI.
Article Synopsis
- * Conducted from 2012 to 2020, the research involved 104 patients and found weak correlations for immune markers, particularly PD-L1 and T-cell densities, between the two types of samples.
- * Results indicated that higher immunoscores in surgical samples were associated with better overall and disease-free survival, suggesting their potential value in predicting outcomes for advanced OCSCC.