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Clin Transplant
January 2025
Department of Hematology and Oncology, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: Pleural effusion and ascites developing after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) are generally associated with inferior overall survival (OS); however, the prognostic value of pretransplant effusion on transplant outcomes remained unclear.
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated minimal pleural effusion and ascites detected by computed tomography in 248 consecutive adult patients who underwent their first allo-SCT from January 2007 to December 2022.
Results: Forty-eight patients demonstrated minimal pleural effusion or ascites within 100 days before transplantation (Effusion group) and the other 200 had no effusion (No effusion group).
Ann Gastroenterol Surg
January 2025
Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Hiroshima University Hiroshima Japan.
Aims: Liver fibrosis predisposes patients to liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma. Various markers, which can be calculated easily from serum parameters, have been reported to predict liver fibrosis accurately. This study investigated the prognostic factors, including blood-based markers for liver fibrosis of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma following initial curative hepatectomy.
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January 2025
Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Background/aim: The cachexia index (CXI) has been reported to be a useful indicator for predicting the prognosis of cancer patients. However, CXI calculation requires skeletal muscle index (SMI) measurements, which involves an analysis of computed tomography images using an imaging software program, which makes the calculation process highly complex and time-consuming. Recently, the modified cachexia index (mCXI), calculated using the urea-to-creatinine ratio (UCR) instead of SMI, has been reported to be a useful marker that is easier to calculate than CXI.
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January 2025
Division of Pediatric Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Health Science University, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
Unlabelled: Osteosarcoma (OS) bone tumor of childhood although the etiology of OS has not been fully elucidated, there is evidence linking it with factors related to pubertal development. In recent years, plasma CNP concentration and height velocity in children and CNP have been implicated as an emerging new growth marker during childhood. We aimed to determine the serum NT-proCNP levels of patients with pediatric osteosarcoma and its relation with clinical-laboratory growth parameters and look for any correlation of serum NT-proCNP levels with different prognostic factors in childhood osteosarcoma.
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