Hepatocellular carcinoma is the most common liver malignancy. Salvage liver transplantation (SLT) is viewed as a feasible cure for recurrence of HCC after resectomy, but the effect is under dispute. A retrospective study examined data at Renji Hospital for 239 transplants from January 2006 to December 2015, including 211 who received primary liver transplantation (PLT) and 28 who underwent SLT....

The effect of conagenin (CNG) on myelosuppression induced by antitumor agents was investigated. The daily administration of CNG prevented reduction in the number of platelets (PLT) observed in peripheral blood of mice given mitomycin C (10 mg/kg) but did not prevent reduction in the number of leukocytes (WBC). The effect on PLT was also confirmed in mice given cyclophosphamide (100 mg/kg). In m...

This study investigated the effect of housing enrichments (scratching card, gnawing material and a platform), change in height type flooring on live weight, reproductive performance behaviour female rabbits, as well feed intake spatial distribution females their kits. A total 40 multiparous rabbits were monitored three consecutive cycles (48-d intervals). Four days before parturition each cycle...

This paper presents a criterion for identifying inhomogeneous sequences in time-series medical datasets based on the variance of sampling interval, duration of data acquisition and number of data points. After removing inhomogeneous and short sequences from the data set, we performed the analysis of the hepatitis dataset again and obtained the following interesting findings regarding the stage ...

Under conventional inflation targeting (IT), the lower bound on nominal interest rates gives rise to a systematic downward bias in that substantially reduces welfare. Using two variants of New Keynesian model, we investigate whether monetary policy strategy aims stabilize an average rate—rather than period-by-period rate—leads better outcomes. With rational expectations, price level (PLT)—the l...

The lambda and procedure-application forms in PLT Scheme support arguments that are tagged with keywords, instead of identified by position, as well as optional arguments with default values. Unlike previous keyword-argument systems for Scheme, a keyword is not self-quoting as an expression, and keyword arguments use a different calling convention than non-keyword arguments. Consequently, a key...

During treatment with HD PLT interaction with the dialysis membrane results in activation and adhesion on the membrane surface and release of platelet-derived factors. In case of PLT activation increased amounts of degranulated PLTs are present in peripheral blood circulation. Degranulated PLTs are less viable and demonstrate a shortened life span. Increased turnover of PLTs might reveal increa...

In this case report, we report the application of frozen-and-thawed allogeneic platelet gel (PLT-gel) to treat a late driveline exit site infection in a 56-year old patient supported by a Heartware-HVAD left ventricular assist device. The treatment duration was 4 weeks and at the follow-up the skin around the exit site was free from further infection. PLT-gel can be used to treat local infectio...

OBJECTIVE A retrospective study to determine the relationships between platelet parameters and inflammation and fibrosis of the liver in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection (CHB). METHODS Patients with liver biopsy-confirmed CHB were included in the study. Liver fibrosis and inflammation were assessed by histopathology of biopsied liver tissue. Platelet count (PLT), platelet dis...