A total of 251 consecutive patients underwent HTx between January 1994 and June 2022 at the Severance Cardiovascular Hospital in Seoul, Republic of Korea. We included only patients with liver ...

Serum sodium is a simple, readily available, and objective marker of disease severity. During cirrhosis, hyponatremia results from solute-free water retention. Systemic arterial vasodilation leads to ...

During the 3-month follow up, 223 patients died. The causes of death were all related to liver disease: 49 patients died of hepatorenal syndrome; 117 patients died of hepatic encephlophy; 44 patients ...

Clinical decompensation immediately prior to liver transplantation may affect post-liver transplant (LT) outcomes. Using the serial Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scores recorded in the ...

If you’re an adult with liver disease that may call for a transplant, your MELD score helps to tell how quickly you might need it. A MELD score is a number that ranges from 6 to 40, based on lab tests ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) survey of biliary tract cancer (BTC) to reveal the association between tumor somatic variants and chemotherapy resistance. Integrating insulin-like growth factor-1 ...