Background & Objectives: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) leads to high morbidity and mortality. Various models have been proposed for predicting the outcome of patients with HCC. We aim compare prognostic abilities Child-Pugh, MELD, MELD-Na, ALBI scores in-hospital mortality Methods: enrolled diagnosed liver cirrhosis HCC from May 2017 through 2018. further divided eligible into hepatitis B viru...

Neuropsychological tests used for the assessment of subclinical hepatic encephalopathy (SHE) may overdiagnose SHE because scores are usually not corrected for age. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of SHE using two easy administrable psychometric tests (Number Connection Test part A [NCT-A], Symbol Digit Test [SDT]) with age-related normal values. In addition, spectral electr...

Open-heart surgery is a relatively high-risk procedure when performed in patients with Child-Pugh class C cirrhosis. Even though they can tolerate cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), most of them suffer major postoperative complications and prolonged hospital stay. The present report describes a case of a patient with Child-Pugh class C cirrhosis who developed severe heart failur...

PURPOSE To investigate the safety of high dose hypofractionated radiotherapy (RT) in patients with small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in terms of liver volumetric changes and clinical liver function. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 16 patients with small HCC who were treated with high dose hypofractionated RT between 2006 and 2009. The serial changes of the liver volumetri...

BACKGROUND The Child-Pugh (CP) score is used widely to assess liver function and predict postoperative outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Recently, the albumin-bilirubin (ALBI) score has been validated as a predictor of overall survival in these patients. This study aimed to compare the ability of the ALBI and CP scores to predict outcomes in patients with HCC after liver...

Assessment of hepatic functional reserve is important to enable the selection of appropriate treatment methods and safe hepatic resection in hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the present study, an evaluation was made of the clinical value of combining the Child-Pugh score (CPS) with the standardized future liver remnant (sFLR) measurement to predict postoperativ...

PURPOSE To analyze the intraoperative and immediate postoperative biochemical parameters of patients submitted to orthotopic liver transplantation. METHODS Forty four consecutive orthotopic liver transplants performed from October 2009 to December 2010 were analyzed. The patients (38 male and eight female) were divided into two groups: group A, survivors, and group B, non-survivors. Fifty per...