Percutaneously placed covered retrievable stents for the treatment of biliary anastomotic strictures following living donor liver transplantation

Jinoo Kim, Gi‐Young Ko, Kyu‐Bo Sung, Dong Il Gwon, Sung‐Gyu Lee, Kwang‐Mi Kim, Kyung‐Ah Kim, Hyun‐Ki Yoon – 29 November 2010 – This study evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of covered retrievable stent placement compared with drainage catheter placement for treating biliary anastomotic strictures following living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

Feasibility of using a liver infected with Clonorchis sinensis for liver transplantation: Fourteen cases

Zhi‐Jun Zhu, Zhong‐Yang Shen, Wei Gao, Hong Zheng, Yong‐Lin Deng, Cheng Pan, Li‐Ying Sun, Zhi‐Gui Zeng, Ji‐San Sun – 29 November 2010 – Use of livers infected with Clonorchis sinensis as donor organs for transplantation is controversial because of the potential associated risks. The low availability of donor livers at Tianjin First Center Hospital since 2003 prompted us to undertake cadaveric liver transplantation in 14 patients using donor livers infected with C. sinensis.

Modeling hepatitis B virus X–induced hepatocellular carcinoma in mice with the sleeping beauty transposon system

Vincent W. Keng, Barbara R. Tschida, Jason B. Bell, David A. Largaespada – 24 November 2010 – The mechanisms associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV)–induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain elusive, and there are currently no well‐established animal models for studying this disease. Using the Sleeping Beauty transposon as a delivery system, we introduced an oncogenic component of HBV, the hepatitis B virus X (HBx) gene, into the livers of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Fah) mutant mice via hydrodynamic tail vein injections.

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