Investigators compared the incidence of nonanastomotic biliary strictures in patients receiving a liver obtained after circulatory death that had undergone hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion or conventional static cold storage.
For women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy, treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid does not reduce adverse perinatal outcomes, according to a study published online Aug. 1 in The Lancet.
The researchers found that from 2004 to 2016, there was an increase in the proportion of all paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures performed by radiologists (70 to 80 percent and 47 to 66 percent, respectively).
Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study to determine the clinical features of pediatric patients with PSC in a Japanese cohort to evaluate long-term outcomes. They discovered that primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC)-autoimmune hepatitis overlap is the primary phenotype linked to poor long-term outcomes.
Two risk stratification models, GLOBE and UK-PBC, performed well in predicting future complications related to cirrhosis in patients with primary biliary cholangitis.
