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Filter by:Decompensated cirrhosis has a high overall mortality rate. There is a large unmet need for safe and alternative therapeutic potions. This clinical trial is to inspect the efficiency and safety of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) therapy for decompensated cirrhosis.
This research study is evaluating a program that entails home-based care for people with advanced liver disease.
This is a single-arm clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of left atrial isolation achieved by catheter ablation in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation with severe atrial fibrosis.
The patients who conducted position change due to massive EGVB resulting in poor visualization in the stomach were included. Those with incomplete information were excluded. The patients were characterized in terms of age, sex, causes of liver cirrhosis, adverse events (AEs) during position change, additional findings after body position change, treatment regimens and follow-up information.
This is an open label, randomized parallel control clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of catheter ablation and surgical ablation in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation with severe atrial fibrosis.
68Ga-fibroblast activating protein inhibitors(FAPI) has been developed as a tumor-targeting agent as fibroblast activation protein is overexpressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts and some inflammation,such as inflammatory bowel disease. And it might be more sensitive than FDG in detecting a certain type of inflammations according to our preliminary research. Thus this prospective study is going to investigate whether 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT may be superior for diagnosis, therapy response assessment and follow-up of Pulmonary fibrosis than 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Intro: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the 6th leading cause of cancer worldwide. In France, more than 10,000 new cases are identified each year. The latter occur in 85% of cases in cirrhosis, the most frequent causes of which are excessive alcohol consumption, metabolic syndrome or HBV/HCV infection. Patients with cirrhosis justify being included in monitoring programs involving the performance of a semi-annual liver ultrasound (US) in order to detect HCC eligible for curative treatment (liver resection or percutaneous ablation). This practice is considered to be cost-effective in the event of an annual incidence of HCC> 1.5%. US in this context has a low sensitivity for the detection of HCC at the very early stage and the following observations have been made in the last 20 years: - The rate of patients detected at early stage BCLC 0 is around 30% by ultrasound - The rate of patients included in surveillance programs detected with advanced HCC eligible for palliative treatment is around 20% - Reducing the periodicity of liver ultrasounds from 6 to 3 months does not improve these results. In parallel, liver MRI has been evaluated as a tool for the early detection of HCC. Its performance for the detection of HCC at the very early stage exceeds 80%. However, due to the higher cost compared to US, it was estimated that its use in screening context would only be cost effective in the event of an annual incidence> 3%. In addition, the practice of these expensive and long-lasting MRIs (30 to 45 minutes) can be optimized by carrying out abbreviated MRI protocols" or Fast-MRI: short protocols (<10 minutes), based on the sequences with the better detection sensitivities (Se> 83%). The hypothesis is that Fast-MRI used as a screening examination in patients at high risk of HCC (> 3% per year) could increase the rates of patients detected at an early stage accessible to curative treatment and demonstrate its cost-effectiveness in this population. Hypothesis/Objective: The main objective is to assess the cost / QALY and / patient detected with an early HCC BCLC 0 (single tumor <2cm) by semi-annual monitoring by liver US and Fast-MRI, compared to conventional semi-annual monitoring by liver US alone in patients with cirrhosis and an anticipated HCC incidence>3%. Conclusion: If positive, this trial could modify international practice guidelines and set MRI as the optimal tool for early HCC detection in high-risk patients.
This prospective cohort study is initiated to evaluate the compliance improvement to the standardized follow-up and clinical management in the population of compensatory hepatitis B cirrhosis with a mobile health application (APP). Patients were enrolled and divided into APP self-management group (APP only ) and APP intelligent-management group (APP and online interaction). The compliance to the standardized follow-up and clinical management (every six months) under the two clinical management modes would be evaluated and compared with the history data extracted from the platform of China Registry of Hepatitis B (CR-Hep B).
The effectively therapeutic approaches for Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) remain limited. The PARAGON-HF trial found that Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibition (ARNI) has potential benefits for the management of HFpEF. Nevertheless, the role of ARNI in cardiac fibrosis in HFpEF are still unclear. We will conduct a prospective randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of ARNI on cardiac fibrosis in patients with HFpEF by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR).
In this study, treatment-naïve HBV-related cirrhosis patients were retrospectively enrolled at the first episode of decompensation (ascites or variceal hemorrhage). Patients were followed up every 6 months until death /liver transplantation or for 5 years. Clinical data from medical records about past history, first decompensated events, second /further decompensated events, HCC, and death/ liver transplantation were retrospectively collected. In this retrospective study, the incidence of re-compensation and its clinical characteristics were mainly explored.