Although albumin infusion following orthotopic liver transplantation has shown potential benefits, there is no established consensus on optimal serum albumin levels or infusion protocols for these ...

Design C57BL/6 mice were ‘educated’ by tail vein Pex injection. The intrasplenic injection liver metastasis and PDAC orthotopic transplantation models were used to evaluate liver metastasis. Stable ...

Two fundamentally different surgical approaches to liver transplantation exist: (1) orthotopic (OLT), and (2) heterotopic (HLT). In OLT, the patient's diseased liver is completely removed and ...

Microbiological bile analysis might, however, have a role in patients with complications of orthotopic liver transplantation and those in whom adequate biliary drainage has not been achieved.

UAB has completed more than 16,000 successful organ transplants since 1968, when our team performed Alabama’s first kidney transplant. Since then, UAB has been consistently recognized as one of ...

Despite substantial effort and resources dedicated to drug discovery and development, new anticancer agents often fail in clinical trials. Among many reasons, the lack of reliable predictive ...

Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) are at increased risk of colorectal carcinoma. 1, 2 Many clinicians practice colonoscopic surveillance in these patients in the hope of detecting dysplasia or an ...

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains an important complication of chronic liver disease, especially when cirrhosis occurs. Existing treatment strategies include surgery, loco-regional techniques, ...