Background Recent studies have reported a high prevalence of relative adrenal insufficiency
in patients with liver cirrhosis. However, the effect of corticosteroid replacement on mortality …

It is unclear whether practice‐related aspects of antimicrobial therapy contribute to the high
mortality from septic shock among patients with cirrhosis. We examined the relationship …

Breast cancer is a major health problem in many parts of the world. Its impact in Saudi Arabia
will be more obvious when the national data is released from the National Cancer Registry …

Introduction The purpose of the study was to validate the newly derived postoperative
orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTX)-specific diagnostic weight for the Acute Physiology and …

Background Clinical effects and outcomes of a single dose etomidate prior to intubation in
the intensive care setting is controversial. The aim of this study is to evaluate the association …

The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) on Hepatobiliary
Cancers address hepatocellular cancer, cancer of the gallbladder, extrahepatic …

BACKGROUND: Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) is commonly encountered in the setting
of end-stage liver disease (ESLD). Past studies have reported conflicting results in terms of …

Objective The goals were to summarize the results of liver transplantation for chronic hepatitis
B disease (HBV) at the University of Virginia, correlate pretransplant viral markers with …

ESLD. It occurs uncommonly in ESLD and can be diagnosed reliably by contrast trans-thoracic
echocardiography. 3, 4 These changes mandate careful pre-transplantation evaluation to …

Background: Bilateral chylothorax, as a complication of neck dissection, is extremely rare,
and was first described in 1907. Ten cases are reported in the literature. Methods. This …