Abstract: Liver histopathological examination is an important method for the etiological diagnosis of liver injury. The pathological changes of liver diseases are characterized by“one cause with multiple consequences”and“multiple causes with one consequence”, and accurate diagnosis requires the combination of...
Abstract: Liver biopsy plays an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases and can give a comprehensive and detailed description of the morphology of lesions and objective grading and staging scores. There are several pathological grading and staging systems for chronic viral hepatitis an...
Abstract: Unexplained liver inflammatory injury has always been a difficult point in clinical differential diagnosis. This article briefly reviews the pathological changes of various liver diseases that cause inflammatory liver injury, including common/specific findings under a light microscope after HE stain...
Abstract: Major causes of cholestasis include abnormal bile metabolism, obstructed bile flow and regurgitation, and bile duct injury and obstruction. Abnormal bile metabolism is mainly caused by gene abnormality, while obstructed bile flow is often caused by bile duct injury or occlusion due to cholangitis. A...
Abstract: Hepatic vascular diseases are a group of heterogeneous diseases which affect blood circulation in the liver. Although hepatic vascular diseases have a low incidence rate, they remain an important cause of portal hypertension. Patients often develop these diseases at a younger age, and misdiagnosis a...
Abstract: Liver pathological examination plays an important role in guiding clinical treatment and evaluating disease prognosis, especially in the diagnosis of difficult liver diseases. The application of liver biopsy and proper pathological techniques helps pathologists to observe the morphological changes o...
Abstract: Liver fibrosis has a complex pathogenesis and involves various intracellular and extracellular signal transduction pathways, but its specific pathogenesis remains unclear. Recent studies have confirmed that the activation of hepatic stellate cells due to abnormal activation of the Wnt signaling path...
Abstract: Splenomegaly is an early sign of cirrhotic portal hypertension. In patients with liver cirrhosis, the resistance of splenic venous reflux increases and portal venous pressure is reversed to the spleen, which causes congestive splenomegaly and hyperplasia of splenic tissue and fibrous tissue. In addi...
Abstract: The presence of gastroesophageal varices ( GOV) is one of the independent risk factors for the death of patients with chronic liver diseases, and at present, non-selective β-blockers or endoscopic treatment is recommended for the prevention of variceal bleeding in patients with chronic liver disease...
Abstract: Esophagogastric variceal bleeding is one of the most common complications of liver cirrhosis and is also one of the most critical diseases in the department of gastroenterology, with the features of acute onset and high rebleeding and mortality rates. Strengthening the understanding of related progn...
Abstract: Liver cirrhosis is an end-stage fibrotic disease of chronic liver injury induced by various factors. Many studies have shown that gut microbiota ( GM) are involved in the development and progression of liver cirrhosis and related complications, such as portal hypertension, hepatic encephalopathy, sp...
Abstract: Liver cancer still threatens human health nowadays, so it is urgent to explore new minimally invasive methods for the treatment of liver cancer. This article reviews the general status of liver cancer in China and describes local ablation and immunotherapy for liver cancer.This article also introduc...
Abstract: Apoptosis stimulating protein of p53 2 ( ASPP2) is a member of the apoptosis stimulating proteins of p53 and can specifically bind to the core region of p53 protein and enhance the ability of p53 to promote transcription of apoptotic genes. At present, it is believed that ASPP2 plays an important ro...
Abstract: Hepatorenal syndrome ( HRS) is one of the most serious complications of end-stage liver disease. Type Ⅰ/Ⅱ HRS has a high short-term mortality rate and poor prognosis. The diagnostic criteria for HRS based on serum creatinine cannot keep up with the world, and early diagnosis is of great importance t...
Abstract: The treatment of gallstones mainly relies on surgery and endoscopy, and in recent years, a large number of studies have proposed new ideas and thoughts for drugs in the prevention and treatment of gallstones. This article summarizes the efficacy and safety of bile acid drugs, statins, ezetimibe, and...
Abstract: Cholelithiasis is a common disease in clinical practice. At present, surgery is the primary Western treatment method for this disease, but there are problems such as surgical trauma, a high recurrence rate, and postoperative complications. Various traditional Chinese medicine ( TCM) methods for the ...
Abstract: Postcholecystectomy syndrome ( PCS) is a common syndrome with complex etiologies after laparoscopic cholecystectomy, rather than a specific disease. In addition to bile duct stones, bile duct injury, and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, PCS is also associated with the abnormalities in bile acid pool, ...
Abstract: Patients with liver metastasis of pancreatic cancer have poor prognosis and few opportunities for surgery, and conventional radiochemotherapy lacks a satisfactory effect. As a new therapeutic strategy for tumor, immunotherapy fights against cancer by enhancing patients' immune function and may thus ...
Abstract: As a bi-directional tumor regulatory factor, autophagy plays an important role in the development, progression, and treatment of pancreatic cancer. Perineural invasion, a special pathway for tumor metastasis, has a high incidence rate in pancreatic cancer and is closely associated with high recurren...
Objective To investigate the diagnostic efficiency of shear wave elastography ( SWE) in evaluating chronic hepatitis B ( CHB) liver fibrosis and related influencing factors. Methods A total of 147 CHB patients who visited Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University from January 2016 to September ...
Objective To investigate the predictive value of G9 teborg University Cirrhosis Index ( GUCI) score in the noninvasive diagnosis of liver fibrosis stage in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus ( HBV) infection by comparing it with the classical noninvasive serological diagnosis models of aspartat...
Objective To investigate the value of liver stiffness-spleen diameter-to-platelet ratio score ( LSPS) in predicting esophageal varices ( EV) in patients with liver cirrhosis. Methods A total of 76 patients with liver cirrhosis who visited The Second Central Hospital of Baoding from October 2012 to A...
Objective To investigate the clinical effect of Shenqi Gankang tablets combined with antiviral therapy after transcatheter arterial chemoembolization ( TACE) in the treatment of hepatitis B virus ( HBV) -related hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC) . Methods A total of106 patients with HBV-related HCC wh...
Objective To investigate the optimal cut-off value of alpha-fetoprotein ( AFP) in the diagnosis and early screening of hepatocellular carcinoma ( HCC) . Methods The clinical data of 2212 HCC patients who were diagnosed and hospitalized in our hospital and 1998 non-HCC patients were collected, and th...
Objective To investigate the clinicopathological features of hepatic epithelioid hemangioendothelioma ( HEHE) . Methods The clinical data, histopathological data, and immunohistochemical results of 5 patients with HEHE were observed. Results There were 3 male and 2 female patients. Major clinical ma...
Objective To investigate the association between serum triglyceride ( TG) level and the severity of acute hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis ( AHTGP) . Methods A retrospective analysis was performed for the clinical data of 63 patients with AHTGP who were hospitalized and treated in Beijing Anzhen Ho...
Objective To investigate the clinical features of cholestatic liver disease ( CLD) , and to provide a reference for strengthening the diagnosis and treatment of this disease. Methods A retrospective analysis was performed for the clinical data of 107 patients who were admitted to Chenggong Hospital ...
Objective To investigate the clinical effect of fenofibrate combined with ursodeoxycholic acid ( UDCA) in the treatment of primary biliary cholangitis ( PBC) patients with poor response to UDCA alone. Methods A total of 67 PBC patients with poor response to UDCA who were treated in Xijing Hospital o...
Objective To investigate the effect of different doses of Daifan powder on peripheral blood T helper 17 ( Th17) cells, CD4+CD25+Foxp3+regulatory T ( Treg) cells, and Th17/Treg ratio in a mouse model of primary biliary cholangitis ( PBC) induced by polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid ( Poly I∶ C) and the...
Objective To investigate the features of insulin resistance in patients with liver disease and diabetes and possible pathways leading to insulin resistance. Methods A total of 67 patients with liver disease and type 2 diabetes who were admitted to Beijing You'an Hospital from September 2017 to March...
Objective To investigate the effect of improvement in internal environment after plasma exchange on the bioactivity of peripheral blood CD34+cells in patients with acute-on-chronic ( subacute) liver failure. Methods The peripheral blood CD34+cells from patients with acute-on-chronic ( subacute) live...
Objective To investigate the prognostic factors for pregnancy-specific liver disease ( PSLD) , to establish a simple effective model ( NEW mode) using the statistic method, and to investigate the value of Model for End-Stage Liver Disease ( MELD) and NEW model in the prognostic evaluation of PSLD pa...
Objective To investigate the diagnosis and treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease ( aGVHD) after liver transplantation.Methods This report included 8 patients treated with liver transplantation who were admitted to the Liver Transplantation Center of Beijing YouAn Hospital from April 2011 to A...