We present a 3-year-old child with Budd Chiari syndrome having idiopathic complete occlusion of all three major hepatic veins and small hepatic venules. Adequate antegrade flow in right hepatic vein was established by transfemoral balloon angioplasty followed by stenting of the same. Long term antiplatelet therapy was instituted. Medium term follow up reveals satisfactory antegrade flow and regression of symptoms. This strategy highlights an effective nonsurgical approach of restoring physiological pattern of hepatic sinusoidal blood flow in Budd Chiari syndrome.
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Updates Surg
January 2025
Department of Gastrointestinal and Transplant Surgery, Hospital São Lucas Copacabana, Hospital Adventista Silvestre and Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho-UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Although living donor liver transplantation has evolved, small-for-size syndrome remains a feared complication. Achieving optimal outflow for the graft with limited donor risk is possible with an experienced team and different techniques. Here we describe the technical aspects of living donor liver transplantation using a right lobe graft, including the different types of grafts, venous reconstructions and the importance of preoperative workup.
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January 2025
Department of Human and Clinical Anatomy, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
Liver regeneration is intricate, involves many cells, and necessitates extended research. This study aimed to investigate the response of liver oval cells (bipotent liver progenitors) to the epigenetic modifier trichostatin A (TSA), an HDAC1 inhibitor, and to develop a scoring system for assessing the response of these cells. Three groups of equally divided rats (n=24) were selected: control (A, dimethyl sulfoxide treated); oval cell induction (B, acetylaminofluorene [2-AAF] to block hepatocyes/carbon tetrachloride [CCL4] to induce oval cell response); and epigenetic modulation (C, TSA post 2-AAF/CCL4 injury).
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January 2025
Hemostasis and Erythropathology Laboratory, Hematopathology, Pathology Department, Centre de Diagnòstic Biomèdic (CDB), Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Background: V617F-mutated myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) exhibit abnormal proliferation of bone marrow progenitors and increased risk of thrombosis, specifically in splanchnic veins (SVT). The contribution of the endothelium to the development of the prothrombotic phenotype was explored.
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Ann Transplant
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan.
BACKGROUND We previously reported that the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD) score and donor age are risk factors for small-for-size syndrome in adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) involving small grafts. Since April 2021, we have performed splenectomy as a portal inflow modulation in LDLT using small grafts according to the presence of risk factors. In this study, we evaluated the validity of our splenectomy strategies for optimizing graft outcomes.
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January 2025
Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, Hepatology Research Unit, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Liver Research Center Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium. Electronic address:
Portal hypertension (PH) can cause severe complications in patients with advanced chronic liver disease (aCLD). The pan-peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (pan-PPAR) agonist lanifibranor reduces portal pressure in preclinical models of aCLD. Since the effect on PH might be secondary to fibrosis improvement, we investigated the effect of lanifibranor on PH, hepatic and splanchnic angiogenesis in mouse models of fibrotic and prehepatic non-fibrotic PH.
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