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Filter by:Patients with clinically significant portal hypertension allocated to implantation of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) at the Department of Medicine II of the University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany will be offered to participate in this prospective observational trial. Clinical and laboratory as well as outcome parameters will be assessed before and within the first 12 months after TIPS implantation following a regular follow-up schedule with clinical visits at the University Medical Center Freiburg. During follow-up visits, serum/plasma samples and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) are collected and stored in a associated biobank.
This study is investigator initiated, single-institution, prospective, phase 2 open-label study to determine the efficacy and safety of combination therapy of atezolizumab/bevacizumab and proton beam therapy to portal vein tumor thrombosis with or without main primary tumor in patients with stage 3 or higher hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with Vp2-4 portal vein invasion who had not undergone systemic therapy for HCC. The primary endpoint of this study is progression-free survival and secondary endpoints are overall survival (OS), time to progression (TTP), objective response rate, disease control rate (DCR), and time to local disease progression (LTP).
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy combined with Lenvatinib and PD-1 inhibitors compared to Lenvatinib plus PD-1 inhibitors for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT).
Portal vein thrombosis is defined as partial or complete occlusion of the portal vein lumen by the blood clot or its replacement by multiple collateral vessels with the hepato-petal flow, known as 'portal cavernoma'. [1,2] Based on the published literature, 15-25% of patients with cirrhosis have portal vein thrombosis (PVT) [3], and 35-50% of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have malignant PVT [4] compared to 1-3.8 per 100,000 patients in the general population. [5] The reported cumulative incidence of PVT in patients of Child-Pugh A and B is 4.6% and 10.7% at 1 and 5 years respectively with higher incidence among those with decompensated disease or with an underlying hypercoagulable disorder. [6]. Similarly, the prevalence of PVT in compensated cirrhosis is around 1% which increases to 8 - 25% in liver transplant (LT) candidates and 40% in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) [7,8]. Based on the published literature 7-9 % of all chronic liver disease patients have hepatic vein outflow tract obstruction (HVOTO) in the Indian population. [9] HVOTO is defined as obstruction to hepatic venous outflow at any site from the right atrium inlet to the small hepatic venules. The Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) results from occlusion of one or more hepatic veins (HV) and/or the inferior vena cava (IVC). In the West, the most common cause is HV occlusion by thrombosis. More recent Indian studies have however shown that isolated HV and combined IVC+HV obstruction are now more common. [10] In the post COVID-19 era, there has been great interest in the prothrombotic states associated with the SARS-Cov-2 virus infection, and the adverse effects of some vaccines. [11] With the availability of better molecular tests for hypercoagulable states, use of global coagulation tests (GCT) like rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM), thromboelastography (TEG) and Sonoclot, use of therapeutic procedures like Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS), availability of novel oral anticoagulants (NOAC), the natural course of disease can be changed with good outcomes. [12] Standard Coagulation tests (SCTs) like PT, aPTT, and platelet count are not predictive of bleeding or coagulation risk as they exclude the cellular elements of hemostasis and are unable to assess the effect of thrombomodulin and cannot assess the stage of the coagulation pathway which is affected. Global coagulation tests provide dynamic information on the coagulation pathway that is not available from conventional tests. [13]
A randomized controlled trial to study the efficacy and safety of Dabigatran in Cirrhotic patients who develop PVT.In this study the patients who meet the inclusion criteria will be randomized to either receive Dabigatran or placebo [multivitamin tablet]. Blood samples will be taken &Imaging will be done accordingly to notice progression or recanalization of PVT.The patients are followed up every 2 months up to 18 month .Then statistical analysis will be done to find whether the Dabigatran is efficacious in cirrhotic patients for recanalization of PVT.
To evaluate and compare the efficacy and safety of SBRT sequential TACE combined with sorafenib versus sorafenib alone in the treatment of unreactable HCC with PVTT.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients is a common disease in the East Asia. During the disease course, 20%-50% patients suffered portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT), which is characterized with poor outcome and low response for treatments. Although BCLC (Barcelona clinical liver cancer) system recommend to palliative targeted treatment, the East Asian countries recommend to resection or transartery chemoembolization (TACE). Recently, FOLFOX (Oxaliplatin and 5-fluorouracil) based hepatic artery infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) exhibited high response rate for advanced HCC. Pilot study showed TACE combined HAIC (TACE-HAIC) had better tumor response, with low progression disease rate. Whether TACE-HAIC would improve survival for patients with PVTT is need to further to study. A randomized clinical trial compared neo-TACE-HAIC with surgery versus surgery alone is aimed to answer this question.
Since not every portal vein thrombus (PVT) in a patient with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a tumor thrombus, since the nature of the thrombus will ultimately determine the course of treatment, and since PVT may be even the initial sign of an undetected HCC, every effort should be made to distinguish between a tumor and a non-tumor PVT. In addition, malignant PVT does not always demonstrate neovascularity and/or enhancement, which makes fine needle aspiration (FNA) necessary in order to characterize the nature of the PVT. Sampling of portal vein thrombus with trans-abdominal ultrasound guidance may lead to erroneous results because of inadvertent inclusion of normal hepatocytes or associated liver masses. Further, potential adverse events of trans-abdominal portal vein sampling include serious biliary and/or vascular injury. In contrast to the percutaneous approach, Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) provides a unique view and access to the main portal vein. From the duodenal bulb and second part of the duodenum, the portal vein can be visualized from the confluence of the splenic and superior mesenteric veins into the porta hepatis. Periportal collateral vessels or cavernous transformation of the portal vein, which commonly are associated with portal vein thrombosis, are also easily and reliably detected by EUS instruments with color Doppler US capability. With a linear-array echo-endoscope, the portal vein can be punctured easily with a fine needle under direct visualization, while avoiding the adjacent hepatic artery, bile duct, and collateral vessels (if present). Because the approach is not trans-hepatic, it eliminates any need to avoid the primary tumor and any possibility of contaminating the specimen with hepatocytes, as can occur if the needle tracks through the liver parenchyma. Thus, the rate of false-positive diagnoses is likely to be lower with the EUS compared with the percutaneous approach
The aim of this Register Trial is to systematically study the epidemiology, risk factors, liver function as well prognosis of patients with vascular liver diseases. Furthermore, important clinical parameters will be assessed in order to evaluate patients' coagulation status and in order to develop new biomarkers derived from blood, urine, stool or ascites of patients as well as histological samples from the upper / lower GI-tract or the liver in order to better understand the natural history of vascular liver diseases.
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