Purpose: Double-tract reconstruction (DTR) is one of the major procedures following proximal gastrectomy (PG) with anti-reflex function for the esophagus. Although many studies demonstrated the feasibility of laparoscopic DTR, there is a lack of research on robotic DTR. We aimed to assess the safety and feasibility of robotic DTR following PG.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Conversion surgery (CS), which aims to cure after systematic therapy, is only scarcely reported in the field of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, advancements in systemic therapy for HCC are expected to increase the candidates eligible for CS because of the higher response rate. The aim of this study was to clarify the characteristics of patients who underwent CS after tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a highly aggressive malignancy. However, the characteristics and prognosis of ICC is not well known. This study aims to reveal the relationship between liver function and prognosis of ICC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLymphoproliferative disorder (LPD) is a potentially severe adverse effect of methotrexate (MTX) administration in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We report a case of MTX-associated LPD (MTX-LPD) in a patient with RA who developed severe pulmonary failure complicated by perforation of the terminal ileum. A 61-year-old woman with RA receiving MTX complained of dyspnea and abdominal pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe patient was a 59-year-old man. He was admitted to our hospital because of increasing anal pain with induration of the perianal region. There were large secondary orifices with mucous discharge on the left side of the perineal resion and buttock.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMalignant mesothelioma is a rare aggressive solid tumor that is invariably incurable. A 23-year-old female patient with ascites, anemia, and high levels of ferritin and CRP was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma by exploratory laparotomy. She remained asymptomatic, but 7 years later, she developed intractable diarrhea and fever.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Effective therapeutic combinations targeting the oncogenic pathway still are unknown in human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The authors previously identified aberrant expression of aurora B kinase as the independent predictor for the lethal recurrence of HCC, showing that AZD1152 induced in vitro and in vivo apoptosis with polyploidy in human HCC cells. In this preclinical study, the combined effects of molecular-targeted therapies were evaluated based on the cellular response of aurora B inhibition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReduced port surgery has been attracting attention in the field of minimally invasive surgery. Although the use of SILS is becoming widespread, technical difficulty has delayed its adoption for laparoscopic liver resection. Recently, advances in laparoscopic liver resection have been made in tandem with advances in surgical skill and devices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: It is unclear whether Child-Pugh score discriminates a prognosis of the Child-Pugh A patients who underwent hepatic resection for hepatocellular carcinoma.
Methods: Between April 2000 and March 2011, 361 patients with Child-Pugh A who underwent curative hepatectomy were divided into 2 groups: Child-Pugh score 5 points group (CPS5) and Child-Pugh score 6 points group (CPS6); both CPS5 (n = 274) and CPS6 (n = 87) groups were compared.
Results: Overall survival rates (1/2/5 years of the CPS5 and CPS6 groups were 90.
Background: Age-related differences of clinicopathologic features, outcomes, and molecular properties of hepatocellular carcinoma remain unclarified.
Methods: We classified patients who underwent hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma into 3 groups by age bracket; younger group (<50 years), middle-aged group (50 to 79 years), and elderly group (≥80 years) and compared age-related features.
Results: Hepatitis viral infection was dominant in the younger group (hepatitis B virus [HBV]; 67%) and middle-aged group (hepatitis C virus [HCV]; 56%), whereas the elderly group showed a significantly higher rate without hepatitis virus infection (absence of HBV and HCV infection, 66%; P = .
Hepatogastroenterology
May 2014
Background/aims: It is difficult to estimate the functional reserve of the liver required for safe hepatectomy in patients with severe chronic liver disease The aim of this study was to retrospectively construct simple model based on routine laboratory data to predict both early liver failure (ELF) and mortality from recurrence-free liver failure (MLF) as an index for late liver failure after hepatectomy.
Methodology: Between 2000 and 2004, 196 consecutive patients underwent curative hepatectomy, and data from 127 minor hepatectomies were included in this study.
Results: Mean survival time was [mean (SD)] 1252 (670) days after hepatectomy.
Aim: It has been highly controversial whether elevated serum α-fetoprotein (AFP) level before hepatectomy predicts recurrence and mortality of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) or not. This study is to identify whether the index predicts recurrence and mortality after hepatectomy in HCC.
Methods: Of 568 consecutive patients, 342 with normal liver function (Child-Pugh score, 5) and no macrovascular invasion were enrolled between April 2000 and March 2013.
The rupture of a metastatic mixed adenoneuroendocrine carcinoma (MANEC) has not been previously reported, although the neuroendocrine cell carcinoma is often associated with a high incidence of hepatic metastases. The patient was a 39-year-old male who presented with upper abdominal pain over 3 months. Computed tomography showed multiple tumors in both hepatic lobes, while lower gastrointestinal endoscopy revealed a tumor in the transverse colon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 74-year-old woman was referred to our hospital following the diagnosis of advanced gallbladder cancer with para-aortic lymph node metastasis. Combination treatment involving gemcitabine(1,000mg/m / 2 body surface area)and CDDP(50mg/ m2 body surface area)was initiated and repeated for 4 courses; gemcitabine was administrated on day 1 and day 8, whereas CDDP was administrated on day 8, followed by 1 week of no treatment. After 4 courses, abdominal computed tomography (CT)indicated a reduction in size of the main lesion and disappearance of para -aortic lymph nodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most lethal malignancies and the identification of new effective therapies for HCC is urgently needed. We have previously identified EpCAM, one of the hepatic stem/progenitor markers, as a prognostic predictor of patients who received curative hepatectomy for HCC. In this preclinical study, the effects of VB4-845, an immunotoxin targeting EpCAM, were evaluated in HCC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi
November 2013
An 83-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further investigation of liver dysfunction. Laboratory examination revealed serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels of 4205ng/ml, an AFP/AFP-L3 ratio of 32.3%, an indocyanine green retention rate at 15 minutes of 25.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The aim of this study was to identify factors related to the recurrence of non-B or non-C (NBNC) hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Study Design: Between April 2000 and March 2012, out of 621 consecutive HCC patients at our institution, 543 who underwent initial hepatectomy and had no extrahepatic metastases were enrolled in the study. Multivariate analysis were performed to identify risk factors for poor disease-free survival (DFS).
Background: In patients with solitary hepatocellular carcinoma ≤5 cm without macrovascular invasion, it is unknown whether the initial anatomic resection improves the long-term survival.
Methods: Among 545 initial hepatectomies for hepatocellular carcinoma between 2000 and 2012, the 233 patients with the aforementioned criteria of hepatocellular carcinoma were enrolled.
Results: The mean observation time was 1,125 days.
Antibody-mediated coagulation factor deficiencies constitute a rare disorder that may develop in elderly patients without any history of a bleeding diathesis. Patients may present with severe and sometimes catastrophic bleeding. We report two cases of postoperative hemorrhage caused by a coagulation factor deficiency.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recurrence determines the postoperative prognosis with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). It is unknown how the liver dysfunction involving organic anion transporter failure causes the occurrence of HCCs. This study was designed to elucidate the link between liver dysfunction and multicentric occurrence (MO) after radical hepatectomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most aggressive malignancies because of recurrence and/or metastasis even after curative resection. Emerging evidence suggests that tumor metastasis and recurrence might be driven by a small subpopulation of stemness cells, so-called cancer stem cells (CSCs). Previous investigations have revealed that glioma and breast CSCs exhibit intrinsically low proteasome activity and that breast CSCs also reportedly contain a lower reactive oxygen species (ROS) level than corresponding nontumorigenic cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Abnormal tumor vascularity is one of the typical features of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this study, the significance of contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography (CEIOUS) images of HCC vasculature was evaluated by clinicopathological and gene expression analyses. We enrolled 82 patients who underwent curative hepatic resection for HCC with CEIOUS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi
October 2012
A 75-year-old man was admitted to our hospital for further investigation of obstructive jaundice due to a mucin-producing bile duct tumor. ERCP revealed dilatation of the common bile duct and a filling defect in the bile duct. Because of obstructive jaundice, an EBD tube was placed and bile was drained.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Severe macrosteatotic liver has been regarded as a donor contraindication for liver transplantation. However, it has not yet been determined whether hepatocytes lose function before cold ischemia. This study was designed to elucidate certain pathophysiological alterations and how to ameliorate such hepatic dysfunctions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: Identification and purification of cancer stem cells (CSCs) could lead to new therapeutic targets, but their heterogeneous expansion is an obstacle to their study. We investigated whether it is possible to monitor pancreatic CSCs in real time, based on their intrinsic low level of proteasome activity.
Methods: We engineered human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells (PANC1, MIAPaCa2, BxPC3, and KLM1) to express a green fluorescent molecule fused to the degron of ornithine decarboxylase (Gdeg) from a retroviral vector; the fluorescent Gdeg accumulates in CSCs as a result of low activity of the 26S proteasome.