Evaluation of prognostic efficacy of liver immune status index in predicting postoperative outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma patients: A multi-institutional retrospective study.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ranks third in cancer-related deaths globally. Despite treatment advances, high post-hepatectomy recurrence rates (RR), especially with liver fibrosis and hepatitis C virus infection, remain challenging. Key prognostic factors include vascular invasion and perioperative blood loss, impacting extrahepatic recurrence.

Symptomatic periesophageal vagal nerve injury by different energy sources during atrial fibrillation ablation.

Background: Symptomatic gastric hypomotility (SGH) is a rare but major complication of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation, but data on this are scarce.

Objective: We compared the clinical course of SGH occurring with different energy sources.

Methods: This multicenter study retrospectively collected the characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with SGH after AF ablation.

Small bowel cancer arising from a scar site more than 60 years after ileostomy closure: a case report.

Although small bowel cancer is rare, cases of carcinoma arising from the abdominal wall have not been reported. We report a case of a tumor arising from a stoma scar site, following ileostomy closure that was performed 60 years earlier. The tumor was resected for both therapeutic and diagnostic purposes and was found to be a primary cancer of the small intestine.

A case of effective Delorme's procedure for colonic mucosal prolapse after intersphincteric resection.

Recent surgical technical improvements, such as endoscopic surgery with intersphincteric resection (ISR), could help avoid a permanent colostomy for patients with low-lying rectal tumors. However, the problems associated with anal dysfunction following ISR remain unresolved. We performed ISR and temporary ileostomy in a patient with low-lying rectal cancer.

Relationship between interleukin-1β gene expression in epicardial adipose tissue and coronary atherosclerosis based on computed tomographic analysis.

Background: Anti-inflammatory therapy targeting interleukin (IL)-1β reduced cardiovascular events in a randomized trial. We evaluated the relationship between IL-1β mRNA expression in epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) and clinically-assessed coronary atherosclerosis on computed tomography (CT).

Methods: We studied 45 patients before cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass grafting [CABG], n ​= ​18; non-CABG, n ​= ​27).

Novel Asp511Thr mutation in McArdle disease with acute kidney injury caused by rhabdomyolysis.

McArdle disease (glycogen storage disease type V) is a rare hereditary metabolic myopathy. It can be overlooked clinically because it often presents as chronic asymptomatic hypercreatine phosphokinasemia (hyperCKemia). However, vigorous exercise or infections can trigger severe rhabdomyolysis.

[CUTANEOUS METASTASIS OF UROTHERIAL CARCINOMA FOR WHICH MOHS PASTE WAS USEFUL: A CASE REPORT].

The patient was a 71-year-old man referred to our department because of asymptomatic gross hematuria. Detailed examination led to a diagnosis of bilateral ureteral cancer and prostate cancer. Total nephroureterectomy was performed for bilateral ureteral cancers on separate occasions, while prostate cancer was managed with hormone therapy.

Reappraisal of intergender differences in the urethral striated sphincter explains why a completely circular arrangement is difficult in females: a histological study using human fetuses.

To investigate why the development of a completely circular striated sphincter is so rare, we examined histological sections of 11 female and 11 male mid-term human fetuses. In male fetuses, the striated muscle initially extended in the frontal, rather than in the horizontal plane. However, a knee-like portion was absent in the female fetal urethra because, on the inferior side of the vaginal end, a wide groove for the future vestibule opened inferiorly.