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Advanced cancer patients with refractory ascites often do not respond to conventional treatments including dietary sodium restriction, diuretics, and repeated large volume paracentesis. In these patients, continuous peritoneal drainage by...
PURPOSE: The conventional trocar and cannula method in peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheter insertion has its limitation in clinical setting. The aim of this study was to compare a modified method...
OBJECTIVE: We assessed the outcomes of a simplified technique for the percutaneous placement of a hepatic artery port-catheter system for chemotherapy infusion in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein invasion....
Chung IM, Ueno H, Kim Pak YM, Kim JW, Choi DH, Shin GJ, Yang WI, Jang YS
KMID: 931881
Exp Mol Med.
2002 Sep;34(4):299-307.
Enhanced extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation is an important finding in human restenotic arterial neointima after angioplasty. Transforming growth factor b1(TGF-beta1) is known to regulate the synthesis and turnover of...