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Filter by:The LIVER (Local Infiltration Versus Epidural after Liver Resection) and LIVER 2 (Local Infiltration Versus Epidural after Liver Resection 2) studies were randomised controlled trials that compared epidural analgesia with local anaesthetic wound infiltration as post-operative analgesia in patients undergoing open liver resection. The overall findings of this trial were of similar rates of morbidity and pain control post-operatively but a reduced recovery time for the wound catheter group. As a result, wound catheter local anesthetic infiltration has become increasingly utilized in this unit and within other units throughout the country and worldwide. Epidural use has been associated with improved long term outcomes following abdominal cancer surgery. This study is therefore a long term follow up study of the LIVER and LIVER 2 trials to assess survival between the two groups.
Background: A most common liver cancer in adults is hepatocellular carcinoma. Other kinds of liver cancer happen when colorectal or pancreatic cancer spreads to the liver. Researchers want to study if a combination of drugs helps people with these cancers. The drugs are nivolumab, tadalafil, and vancomycin. Objective: To investigate if nivolumab given with tadalafil and vancomycin causes liver cancer to shrink. Eligibility: Adults ages 18 years and older with hepatocellular carcinoma or metastases to the liver from colorectal or pancreatic cancer for which standard treatment has not worked Design: Participants will be screened with: Medical and cancer history Review of symptoms and ability to perform normal activities Physical exam Heart test. Some participants may meet with a cardiologist and/or have another heart test. Scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis Blood and urine tests Tumor sample review. This can be from a previous procedure. Participants will receive the study drugs in 4-week cycles. In each cycle participants will: Get nivolumab through a small plastic tube in the arm on Day 1. Take tadalafil by mouth 1 time every day. Take vancomycin by mouth 4 times a day. They will take it every day for weeks 1 3, then not take it for week 4. Complete a medicine diary of dates, times, missed doses and symptoms. Throughout the study, participants will repeat screening tests and will give stool samples or rectal swabs. After their last cycle, participants will have 3 follow-up visits over 3 months. Then they will be contacted every 6 months by phone or email and asked about their general well-being. ...
In patients with hepatocellular cancer (HCC) meeting the Milan Criteria (MC), the usefulness of loco-regional therapies (LRT) in the context of liver transplantation (LT) is still debated. The inconsistent literature data are the result of initial selection biases among treated and untreated patients. In order to overcome these shortcomings, an inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) analysis was done in a large patient cohort. After using a competing-risk analysis, the primary end-point of the study aims at identifying the risk factors of HCC-specific LT failure, defined as pre-LT tumour-related drop-out or post-LT recurrence.
Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the most performed endovascular interventional radiology (IR) procedure. TACE procedures are performed in an IR suite, most of which are equipped with floor-based flat-panel robotic C-arm allowing two-dimensional imaging. Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) has been developed to allow three-dimensional navigation but has several limitations such as reduced signal to noise ratio and small field-of-view, and seems to have negative impact on patient radiation exposure. Another option to perform 3D imaging is called angio-CT which combines a CT-scan and a floor-based flat-panel robotic C-arm in a single IR suite. Even if some publications have shown benefit of angio-CT in TACE procedures in Japan, no study about angio-CT in liver IR procedures has been conducted in the occidental world so far. The purpose of our study was to assess the impact of angio-CT use on patient radiation exposure and treatment quality in TACE procedures compared to CBCT. This before-after study consisted of a review of consecutive TACE procedures performed between January 2016 and September 2017 in our institution with two different imaging modalities, defining two study groups (C-arm with CBCT versus angio-CT).
Although hepatic tumors are uncommon in the perinatal period they are associated with significant morbidity and mortality in affected patients. The study is intended to evaluate the diagnostic efficiency of Protein Induced by Vitamin K Absence or antagonist-II(PIVKA-II) combining with alpha-fetoprotein in hepatic tumor of infant. This study is a multicenter study joined by several hospitals in China. Participants including hepatoblastoma, hepatic hemangioendothelioma and healthy control are consecutively recruited into the cohort. All the serum samples are collected before and after each treatment and will be tested in single center in order to decrease bias. Serum samples were tested for PIVKA-II, alpha-fetoprotein and biochemical indexes including alanine aminotransferase(ALT), aspartate aminotransferase(AST), gamma-glutamyl transferase(GGT), alpha-l-fucosidase(AFU), etc.
The investigators will investigate the impact of different biometric parameters (Body mass index, sarcopenia, lean muscle mass, hand-grip strength, gait speed, fat composition) on the postoperative outcomes of patients undergoing liver resections. Major and minor liver resections will be considered as well as open and minimally invasive techniques. Benign and malignant indications will be included. Patients characteristics and perioperative variables will be considered for analysis. Short-term outcomes will be evaluated focusing on 90-days morbidity and mortality and readmission rate.
The present study has been developed with multiple aims: 1) to refine available models for liver transplantation which would be able to cover the fate of HCC candidates from an ITT point of view; 2) to develop such an approach on cohorts coming from both Eastern and Western countries; 3) to maintain simplicity of use; 4) to provide individual prognostication taking into account different causes of death, through a competing-risk model; 5) to provide an external validation on cohorts coming from both Eastern and Western countries. All these aims converge at providing a comprehensive and useful assessment suitable for both candidates selection and allocation priority.
Numerous studies found that anesthetic methods can influence the recurrence of tumor and the overall survival of patients after primary cancer surgery. Radiofrequency (RF) ablation is now widely used in clinic for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Currently, diverse anesthetic methods, including general anesthesia (GA), epidural anesthesia and local anesthesia (LA), are used for RF ablation surgery. Using serum from HCC surgery patients randomized to receive either GA or LA during surgery, we investigated the effects of anesthetic methods on proliferation, migration and metastasis in HepG2 hepatic cancer cells in vitro.
The objective is to investigate the impact of intra-arterial administration of 177Lu-dotatate on the intrahepatic biodistribution in patients with NET liver metastases. Our primary objective is to evaluate if there is a difference in post-treatment tumor-to-non-tumor (T/N) activity concentration ratio on SPECT/CT between the intra-arterial treated liver lobe and the intravenous treated liver lobe.
This is a single arm, non-randomized, single center study to evaluate ablation, oncologic outcomes and safety in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.