Publications by authors named "Tsung-Ching Chou"
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- Statins may lower the risk of gallstone disease and the need for gallbladder surgery (cholecystectomy), though the effects depend on the duration of use.
- A systematic review of 590,086 patients revealed that short-term statin users have a higher risk of gallstones, while medium-term users have a comparable risk, and long-term users benefit from a significantly reduced risk.
- Overall, consistent long-term use of statins is associated with lower chances of developing gallstone disease or requiring surgery.
The outcomes for patients with NASH-related HCC after curative resection have not been clarified. This study compared the overall survival (OS), time-to-tumor recurrence (TTR), and recurrence-free survival (RFS) associated with NASH-related HCC and virus-related HCC after resection. Patients with HCC who underwent curative resection were retrospectively enrolled.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Excessive portal flow to an allograft was a key mechanism for small-for-size syndrome in living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). Good outcomes in LDLT by graft inflow modulation (GIM) using a small graft were reported, but the effect on hepatic hemodynamics is undefined. This report summarizes our experience with GIM and compares the effects of splenic artery ligation (SAL) and splenectomy on hepatic hemodynamic changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The role of autophagy-related markers as the prognostic factor of post-operative hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence remained controversial.
Methods: Overall, 535 consecutive HCC patients undergoing curative resection from 2010 to 2014 were followed and classified with early (ER, <2 years) or late recurrence (LR). Autophagy-related markers, LC3, Beclin-1, and p62 expression was immunohistochemically assessed in HCC and adjacent non-tumor (ANT) tissues.
Background/purpose: Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) has emerged as the preferred technique worldwide, and has contributed to a dramatic increase in living kidney donation during the past decade. We adopted LDN in 2002 with the intention of increasing living kidney donation incentive and maintaining equivalent donor/recipient outcome.
Methods: Forty-five LDNs were performed between September 2002 and November 2007.